Mag. Ajitkumar Ananthu Jeyakumar

Topic: Comparison and evaluation of multiple CFD wheel simulation methods and its correlation to wind tunnel test results and flow fields Simulation Tools used: PowerFlow, IconCFD(OpenFOAM) - Validation of solvers for better representation of wheel aerodynamics - Validating CFD Wheel Simulation methods (Sliding Mesh, Rotating Walls and Immersed Boundary Methods) with wind tunnel results - Full scale passenger vehicle Wind Tunnel - Developing routines for post processing and work flow optimization

1. Designing and setting up Validation cases for in-house (TBLOCK) turbo-machinery solver using CGNS and ICEM CFD 2. Enhancing the simulation work flow with Python and Linux shell scripting 3. Validation of flow and Heat transfer schemes for the solver using Ansys CFX and Fluent.

Computational Fluid Dynamics Computational Wind Engineering Finite Element Methods Parallel computing

Computational Fluid Dynamics Finite Element Methods Object oriented Programming Aircraft Propulsion