Research Background
I have been actively involved in research since 2015. Starting out in Process Safety, I moved quickly from modeling of fire hazard of LNG pool fires to experiments and modeling of processes involved in pyrolysis, material flammability, and fire spread over combustible solids during my Ph.D. Now, in my professional research setting, I continue to experimentally understand problems from fundamental standpoint for model development and validation.
I have a developing expertise in small (milligram-scale) to medium-scale experiments and modeling of phenomena governing these scales.
In day-to-day research activities, when I am not experimenting, I utilize in-house Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) softwares custom-built for my research, as well as open-source solvers such as ThermaKin, and Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS).
Education
- Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, 2021
- University of Maryland, College Park, U.S.A
- Dissertation: Experiments and Semi-Empirical Modeling of Buoyancy-Driven, Turbulent Flame Spread over Combustible Solids in a Corner Configuration
- Masters, Chemical Engineering, 2016
- Texas A&M University, College Station,, U.S.A
- Thesis: Application of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) to Study Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Pool Fires
- Bachelors, Chemical Engineering, 2013
- Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur, India