Ph.D. Student

A little about me

Pratik is pursuing a PhD in mechanical engineering from Florida International University since 2020. He has completed his bachelor's degree in aeronautical engineering from Aeronautical Society of India in 2013. He went to Indian Institute of Technology Bombay to pursue Master in Aerospace Propulsion, where he worked on non-reacting spray study using PIV and experimental study on reacting spray for flame lift-off, for his master thesis.

After completing his master in 2015, Pratik joined Honeywell Technology Solution Lab India, to work with combustion team. He has worked for more than four years in Honeywell, where he has contributed significantly in combustor design program using CFD(LES).

Pratik has worked on problems which involved flow physics such as highly swirling reacting flow, multiphase flow and conjugate heat transfer. Pratik also have major contribution in developing CFD strategies for various problems, Meshing strategies for complex geometries and various scripts for detail post processing for Honeywell. He has developed python tool to automate various CAD operations using NXOpen and proposed a novel technique to integrate it with meshing tool for robustness.

Research interests

PIV, CFD of Multiphase Flow, Conjugate Heat Transfer, Gas and Liquid Combustion simulation and Product Design.