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ARVIND PRABHAKAR
206-b, Trinity House, 800 Greek row,
Arlington, Texas-76013.
Email: [email protected] Cell number: 469-506-7564
MECHANICAL ENGINEER
Mechanical Engineering graduate student Actively seeking Summer / Fall-2015 Internship or co-op position.
specializing in CFD analysis and Computer Aided Design with a focus on heat transfer, Fluid Dynamics, Gas Dynamics and
system design analysis. In depth knowledge and experience in:
● CFD ● Gas dynamics ● Computer aided design and analysis ● Heat Transfer ● Turbomachinery
EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION
Pursuing, Master of Science – Mechanical Engineering, the University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas. (Fall 2014 –
present). GPA 3.67/4
B.E. (Mechanical Engineering), Manipal Institute of Technology, India, 2010 – 2014. CGPA 7.56/10
Aircraft Maintenance Engineering (Mechanical stream), Indian Institute of Aeronautical Science, 2006 – 2009. CGPA 3.308/4
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas (Fall 2014-present)
Research Assistant, Micro Turbomachinery Laboratory.
Responsible for carrying out CFD analysis in foil Thrust Bearings.
Responsible for designing CAD models of Foil Thrust bearings and flow geometries in foil Thrust bearings.
Responsible for analyzing test data and comparing with computational results.
Involved in developing CFD codes for solving Reynolds and Navier stokes Equations.
Rico Auto Industries, Gurgaon, India. (summer 2012)
Summer Intern
Applied academic skills and developed leadership qualities in an Aluminium HPDC manufacturing environment.
Developed work instructions to assist operators on a new HPDC machine and helped refine operational procedures to
increase productivity.
Determined non conformities in manufacturing processes and proposed corrective actions for manufacturing of cylinder
crank case for Tata-Nano’s (car) engine.
Involved in process mapping for the manufacturing of Tata-Nano’s cylinder crank case.
Varman Aviation Private Limited, Bangalore. INDIA (Feb 2009 – Aug 2009).
On Job Trainee
Involved in Maintenance Repair and Overhaul of Pratt and Whitney PT6A-21 and PT6A-42 Turboprop Engines.
Gained hands on experience on Maintenance of Pratt and Whitney PT6A-21 and PT6A-42 Turboprop Engines.
Carried out Engine Test on Aero-Gas Turbine Engine Test Bed.
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Authored a Research paper on ‘CFD Analysis of the Effect of Turbulator Position and Geometry in a Helicoidal Cooling Duct of
a Low Pressure Stage Turbine Blade on Conjugate Heat Transfer’. (December 2014)
Designed an Internal Convection cooling scheme by positioning turbulators in terms of pitch of helicoidal cooling path
in a Low Pressure Stage turbine blade.
Computationally Analysed and Studied the effects of turbulator geometry on conjugate heat transfer in the Turbine
Blade using CFD software ANSYS FLUENT.
Maximized heat transfer from turbine blade to coolant and improved cooling characteristics of the blade.
Paper Accepted at SAE 2015 AeroTech congress & Exposition to be held at Seattle, Washington.
Co-Authored a research paper on ‘Application of CFD Simulation in the Design of a Parabolic Winglet on NACA 2412’.
Presented at IAENG World Congress on Engineering, London, July-2014. (September 2013)
Designed wings with parabolic winglets at different cant Angles.
Computationally Analysed the performance of these winglets in terms of ‘CL’ and ‘CD ‘ and ‘L/D’ ratio.
Co-Authored a research paper on ‘CFD Analysis of a Micro Air Vehicle (MAV) NACA 2412 Wing in High Lift Take-off
Configuration’. Accepted for publication by Aeronautical Society of India’s ‘Journal of Aerospace Sciences and Technologies’.
(december 2013)
Designed a high lift take off configuration wing with partially extended flaps and slats.
Extensively used CATIA V5 for designing and ANSYS FLUENT For CFD Analysis.
Achieved a High value of Coefficient of Lift (CL) as per Target.
COMPUTER SKILLS
Strongly Skilled on CAD and CAE softwares like CATIA V5, SOLIDWORKS, PRO-E, AUTOCAD, SOLID EDGE & ANSYS.
Strongly skilled on Commercial CFD analysis code ANSYS FLUENT.
Microsoft office, Windows XP/Vista/7/8
C++, MATLAB
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