Room Temperature Ionic liquids (RTIL) are salts in a liquid state. Unlike ordinary liquids such as Water or gasoline, which are made of charge-neutral molecules, Ionic liquids are made of Ions. RITLs are dominated by salts derived from 1-methylimidazole, the system we are studying is BMIM-PF6 Ionic liquid. We use Non-equilibrium Molecular dynamics to predict the thermal properties of BMIM-PF6 liquid to prove its potential as a material for liquid thermal storage devices.

With the dawn of electric transport, the research in Internal combustion engines seems fruitless, however, electrification of all transportation will consume a lot of resources and it's predicted that we won't switch all the heavy trucks and transport vehicles to electric power till 2050. The project I worked on with Sandia Labs, New Mexico and Prof. Satbir Singh at CMU aims to reduce NOx and COx emissions of diesel engines. We achieve this through Exhaust Gas recirculation in a Passive Pre-chamber combustion IC Engine. We use CFD simulations to analyze the combustion process in this IC Engine.

Through the Indian subcontinent, there is a major risk of flash floods during the monsoon season. The Indian government tasked the Indian Institute of Science, Banglore and Indian Urban Data Exchange to develop a live prediction algorithm to tackle this problem. I worked on this project as a summer intern and tackled the project using hydrodynamic and hydrological equations. I developed a Python wrapper for the EPA's Storm Water Management Model which can be dynamically used.

Formula 1 engineers have long explored ways to find the optimal racing line to aid the drivers in the quest for ultimate performance. This project aimed to leverage optimization algorithms learnt in Numerical methods class to develop an algorithm to find the optimal racing line. This was a group project and we used vanilla Gradient Descent (GD) optimization, GD with Momentum and GD with ADAM to find the optimal racing line through a 90 degree corner using the Python Library PyTorch.

Screw propellers have remained nearly unchanged for the last 150 years, and have been the propulsion system of choice for nearly all marine vessels over that time. The efficiency of this propulsion system has a significant impact on both the economic and environmental aspects of marine transportation. This project aims to compare the efficiency of toroidal propellers and standard propellers. We used the Solidworks to create the different propellers. Ansys workbench workflow and Ansys Fluent are used to analyze and compare the performance of the geometries. 

Thermo-diffusion is a coupled mass and heat transfer in which the constituents develop a preferential separation in the direction of the temperature gradient. Thermo-diffusion is experimentally observed and has applications in semiconductor manufacturing, however, it's not known how to tune this phenomenon for material processing. The project leverages the techniques learned in Molecular Simulation of Materials class to observe Thermo-diffusion in liquid Lennard Jones (LJ) Argon & Krypton mixture.