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Ben Zinn Combustion Laboratory

Conducted experimental research under Dr. Tim Lieuwen using OH PLIF, Stereoscopic PIV and Chemiluminescence to characterize effects of acoustic forcing on flame structures in a triple nozzle laboratory combustor; Designed an analytical model on MATLAB to interpolate the three dimensional helical disturbances of a swirling flame structure using R-theta and R-Z data from the stereoscopic PIV and PLIF data; Optimized data visualization using Paraview along with a senior PhD student

Teaching Assistant for the Introduction to AE course (AE 1601) which gives students an overview of Aerospace engineering including common terminology, Introduction to use of Engineering Models, Professional and Ethical standards and experience with team-based design of Aerospace Systems

Ben Zinn Combustion Laboratory

Modelled and optimized an active pre-injection longitudinal wave noise cancellation system on LabVIEW under Dr. Tim Lieuwen to assist with studying dependence of flame response to purely transverse ways to increase fidelity of flame response modelling and mitigate combustion instabilities with combustor design, while coordinating with a senior PhD student

Flow Physics Computations And Analysis Laboratory

Assisted with designing an analytical model under Dr. Arnab Samanta for studying the physics of Bi-global stability of sloshing flows; Programmed using a linearized model in MATLAB

Ben Zinn Combustion Laboratory

Designed and conducted experimental research with Dr. Ben Zinn in simulating real-time wave sensing and actively controlled acoustic drivers to apply specified impedance boundary condition of a large system to a small scale system for low cost engine tests; Implemented control system and data acquisition using LabVIEW; Analyzed experimental results and data using MATLAB while coordinating with a senior PhD student

Combustion And Fluid Dynamics Laboratory

Assisted experimental research under Dr. S. R. Chakravarthy using Acetone Planar Laser Induced Fluorescence to characterize air fuel mixing in a laboratory combustor; analyzed experimental results and data using MATLAB

Master’S Degree

Bachelor’S Degree