Presented regular seminars on Ansys fluent workflow and best practices to graduate fluid dynamics class and evaluated semester projects from 60+ students.Assisted professor in grading and monitoring scheduled exams and constructed questions to administer makeup exams to students.Organized weekly TA sessions to assist undergraduate students with homework problems and guide them through their lab exercises .Aided professor in transition to hybrid courses by drafting online protocols for classes and exams under the guidelines provided by university.

Created a general-purpose APDL code for the compression of structures under high sealed pressure.Crafted a meshing strategy to obtain a stiffness matrix with a good condition number from a model with over 6 million DOF.Developed an iterative block method to track cavitation boundary in soft EHL resulting in the first successful application to a complex in-house design seal.Collected data from 30+ simulations reveal the implementation of this cavitation method improves convergence rate and stability of the numerical model.Generated an APDL nodal data sorting algorithm from nearest neighbor algorithm to define the number of divisions in different dimensions.

Performed contact analysis on compressed hyperelastic seals in Ansys APDL to generate a smooth contact pressure profile and contact region.Collaborated with Elastohydrodynamic lubrication (EHL) project team on integrating Intel Fortran to Ansys APDL to access Stiffness and Mass matrices.Developed a Guyan reduction code in Fortran that reduces degrees of freedom(DOF) of a Finite element model to the region of interest.Redesigned the coupled EHL code by adding periodic and symmetry boundary conditions to leverage the inherent axisymmetric nature of seal geometry.Designed a visualization application in MATLAB to analyze the gradients of pressure and film thickness over different cross-sections of the simulated domain.

Conducted extensive literature review of 100+ journal published papers on numerical schemes designed for lubrication in low elastic modulus material contacts. Extended existing Newton-Raphson approach to coupling Reynolds and elastic equations to one-dimensional soft EHL line contacts.Consulted with the project team when designing a Fortran code that utilizes Finite Element Method to discretize the Elastohydrodynamic equation.Validated the numerical model on 10 seal cases that include cylindrical and rectangular geometry against experimental results of leakage and load-carrying capacity.