Karunakar Reddy Konda

Design and optimization of a Thermal Management System for an electric aircraft engine. Developing the thermal management system simulation tool in MATLAB/Simscape environment .

Moved to Infosys under Rolls-Royce/Infosys strategic partnership. Continued working as Performance Engineer for Rolls-Royce from Infosys. Transient performance analysis of gas turbine engines. Mainly involved in shaft break simulation and analysis, overspeed test design for Trent XWB engines. Developed a method to include compressor surge benefit in the modeling.

Worked on system level thermodynamic performance analysis of gas turbine engine. Validated the automated process of the gas turbine engine shaft break modeling (using Simulink). This can potentially reduce the time of analysis by half.

Part of Rolls-Royce global graduate program. Worked in different teams involved in various technical phases of gas turbine engine development. Improved the FSN designs in combustion chamber in terms of smoke production. Proved 5-7% reduction in smoke with one of the design variation. Formulated a methodology using MATLAB to implement DoE techniques for optimizing the test process of a gas turbine engine and identified a redundant test on the engine. This work was recognized with gold excellence award.

Thermal Engineering : Advanced Heat & Mass Transfer, Refrigeration & Cryogenics, Incompressible Fluid Flow, Numerical Methods in Thermal Engineering, Applied Thermodynamics

Thermodynamics, Fluid Mechanics, Heat & Mass Transfer