Santosh Mallah

Experience

• phd in engineering fieldsIIT Bombay·Full-timeDec 2015 – Present7 yrs 10 mosMumbai, MH, India(1) Ph.D. research on the following projects:
  (a) Exploring flight dynamics of a dragonfly with the motivation to develop an efficient unmanned aerial vehicle.
  This project includes following:
  A. Design & Development of experimental setups for particle Image velocimetry experiments (PIV).
  B. PIV-based experiments on dragonfly-inspired corrugated wing in flapping motion.
  C. Post processing of the PIV experimental data through MATLAB & Tecplot.
  D. CFD simulations using ANSYS-Fluent, OpenFOAM on dragonfly-inspired corrugated wing in flapping motion.
  E. Assessing the performance of RC aircraft with dragonfly-inspired wing through 3D CFD simulations on supercomputing facility at IIT Bombay.
  (b) Exploring the effects of superhydrobhobicity on the flow dynamics of static and dynamics objects with the motivation develop an efficient under-water vehicle.
  This project includes following:
  A. Particle Image velocimetry-based experiments in water tunnel on superhydrobhobic NACA0012 hydrofoil in flapping motion and superhydrobhobic circular cylinder.
  (2) Ph.D. level coursework on following subjects:
  A. Computational Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer
  B. Computational Methods in Thermal & Fluid Engineering
  C. Mathematical Methods in Engineering
  D. Microfluidics
  E. Fluid Dynamics
  F. Conduction and Radiation Heat Transfer
  G. Advanced Heat Transfer