Ashish Rana

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Education

Arizona State University Tempe, AZ

PhD in Mechanical Engineering, 3.97 GPA Aug. 2019 – present Arizona State University Tempe, AZ

Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering, 4.0 GPA Aug. 2017 – May 2019 National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK) Mangalore, India Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering, 7.8 GPA Aug. 2013 – May 2017 Experience

Exploring potential of thermoresponsive ionic liquids as air dehumidifiers Aug 2019–Present Arizona State University Tempe, AZ

• Simulated an air dehumidification cycle for ionic liquid and compared it with that for ordinary liquid desiccant

• LCST ionic liquid system required only 25 % regeneration heat and provided 5-fold the COP than ordinary liquid desiccant system for absorbing same amount of absorbed water

• Related ionic liquid phase change curves to performance parameters Thermal energy storage properties of salt hydrates Jan 2018–Aug 2018 Arizona State University Tempe, AZ

• Prepared and subjected the PCM (salt hydrate) and reference sample (ethanol) to melting and freezing cycles.

• Programmed LabVIEW to collect temperature data of thermocouples throughout 3-hour Cycle.

• Calculated tentative latent heat of enthalpy and degree of supercooling using the T-history method Fabrication of Al Superconducting Tunnel Junctions via E-beam evaporationAug 2018–May 2019 Arizona State University Tempe, AZ

• Prepared a pattern for double angle evaporation using Photolithography including an undercut feature

• Successfully performed double angle E-beam deposition to fabricate Al tunnel junction

• Measured I-V characteristic curve for the tunnel junction Numerical analysis of a mixing Chamber by solving Navier-Stokes equations Jan 2018–May 2018 Arizona State University Tempe, AZ

• Coded incompressible Navier-Stokes equations into MATLAB and different boundary conditions

• Generated contour plots for velocities and a mass fraction at different time intervals

• Modified chamber design with constraints on the inlets and outlets size to improve the quality of the mixture Synthesis of metal Chalcogenides nanocrystals Aug 2020–present Arizona State University Tempe, AZ

• Synthesized metal chacogenides nanocrytals as well as magic size clusters

• Performed thermal evaporation of gold to print electrical circuit pattern on nanocrystal films

• Performed temperature dependent thermal conductivity using 3-omega technique Graduate Teaching Assistant for Thermo/fluids lab Aug 2018–present Arizona State University Tempe, AZ

• Oversaw ‘Air Conditioning’ lab experiment to understand the principle behind a VCRS system

• Recorded video lectures to introduce the lab during COVID

• Graded lab planning documents and lab reports and held office hours to help students outside class Technical Skills

Programming: VASP, LAMMPS, EES, R, MATLAB, Python, C/C++, Labview, Mathematica Software: AutoCAD, Solidworks, Vesta, Crystalmaker, Ansys Fluent Laboratory skills: Thermal evaporator, E-beam deposition, Photolithography Characterization skills: SEM, TEM, FTIR, UV-Vis spectroscopy Relevent Coursework

• Nanoscale heat transfer

• Heat transfer

• Computational Fluid Dynamics

• Density functional theory

• Machine learning

• Applied Regression analysis

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