Dr. Vidhyasagar Jhade

I lead CFD and thermal analyses for electric vehicle components and systems. These include full-vehicle aerodynamic drag estimation, electronics package-level thermal modelling (MOSFETs, diodes, ICs), and system-level thermal optimisation. My work involves using Siemens STAR-CCM+ and FloThermXT. I routinely correlate CFD predictions with test data to support design validation and reduce physical testing iterations.

At AtkinsRéalis, I delivered CFD and thermal simulations for international nuclear and energy projects, working closely with multidisciplinary teams and global stakeholders.

Carried out research on turbulence modelling of natural convection and conjugate heat transfer in liquid metal pools formed during severe core melt accidents in sodium-cooled fast reactors. The work supported post-accident heat removal strategies and demonstrated improved thermal load capacity of a proposed core catcher design. All results were validated against in-house and published experimental data. Published papers in international journals and participated in major conferences.

Joined the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering to conduct numerical modelling of closed-coupled gas atomization processes for powder manufacturing, contributing to advanced materials research. Applied CFD expertise to simulate and analyse multiphase flow phenomena, supporting the development of novel powder production techniques.

This is an industry-oriented PhD degree in the field of computational heat transfer and fluid flow. I carried out my doctoral research at the India Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR), India. It is one of the constituent institutes (ICs) of Homi Bhabha National Institute (HBNI). I received a DDFS Scholarship for this research from DAE. Thesis Title: Heat transfer analysis to study the cooling capability of the core catcher assembly under a fuel meltdown scenario in a fast reactor

Secure admission at the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Rourkela after qualifying the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE). This is an all-India test conducted every year by different Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and Indian Institute of Science (IISc) to admit students in Master's and research courses. Here I learned advance course of computational heat transfer and fluid flow. Final Year Thesis Title: Effect of base bleed on a drag of a boat-tail projectile

Received First class grade with 74.59/100. My Final Year Project was - Design, Fabrication & Testing of an all-year-round air-conditioning system