Surya Kumar M C
Project Engineer - II (Aeronautical Development Agency)
Bengaluru
Summary
- Motivated aerodynamics engineer with 8 years of domain experience in CFD
- 2+ years of professional CFD experience in Heavy Vehicle and Automotive industry in Detroit, Michigan, USA catering to clients such as SABIC, Ford, Chrysler
- Experienced in report generation, developing best practices and simulation methodologies while adhering to industrial guidelines and timelines
- Mentored students, juniors and project assistants across both academic and industrial settings
- Excellent communication and presentation skills and can seamlessly integrate with and co-ordinate within teams
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
9
9
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Project Engineer II
Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA), Bengaluru
Bengaluru
3 2022 - Current
- Individually designed, developed and successfully deployed a stand-alone desktop MATLAB App with various modules for aircraft intake related wind-tunnel data analyses. Capable of batch-processing thousands of large data-sets in an automated fashion.
- Successfully built a deep neural network model predicting aircraft intake flow distortion by training on available wind tunnel data
- Report generation for aircraft intake aerodynamics team and mentoring Project Assistants for meshing/simulation best practices
- Analyzed intake pressure recovery of a Military Aircraft through fore-body modifications to canopy, chine angle and Diverter-less Supersonic Intake (DSI)
- Interfacing engine deck data with MATLAB coding to generate intake performance limits for entire flight envelope
- Assessed and validated LES and RANS turbulence models for pressure and skin friction drag data against DNS studies for laminar-turbulent transitional flow
Project Associate
Centre Of Excellence In Hypersonics (COEH), IISC
Bengaluru
12.2020 - 03.2022
- Successfully developed and documented simulation methodology for regenerative cooling channels in scramjet engines
- Mimicked pseudo-boiling phenomena in hydrocarbon fuels by incorporating real-gas effects via coding in ANSYS FLUENT
Application Engineer
EXA Corporation
Livonia, USA
06.2014 - 12.2017
- Very Large Eddy Simulations of heavy vehicles for trailer drag optimization by design modifications to front fascia and roof
- A-pillar, window seal and roof noise reductions performed for SUVs by optimizing for aero-acoustic/aerodynamic performance.
CFD Internship
EXA Corporation, Europe
Stuttgart, Germany
05.2013 - 06.2013
- Transient thermal analyses of flow past heated wall-mounted obstacles
- Evaluated thermal model within Lattice Boltzmann CFD framework
Flight Performance Trainee
Indian Institute of Technology
Kanpur
01.2009 - 01.2009
- Analyzed entire flight envelope - take-off, climbing, landing and banking of 6-seater aircraft, Piper Saratoga.
Summer Internship
Indian Institute of Technology
Madras
06.2008 - 08.2008
- Simulated multi-particle system flight trajectories subject to transient loads
Education
Masters of Science in Aeronautics And Astronautics -
Purdue University
West Lafayette,USA (Advisor: Dr. Tom I-P. Shih) 08.2009 - 01.2014
B.E in Aeronautical Engineering -
Madras Institute of Technology (Anna University)
Chennai, India 05.2005 - 05.2009
High School Diploma -
NSN MHSS
Chennai, India 05.2004 - 05.2005
Skills
ANSYS FLUENT, CFD, ICEMCFD, ANSA, MATLAB -App Designer, Deep Network Designer, AI/ML, Python, Shell scripting, TECPLOT, ParaVIEW
Report Writing, Best Practices Documentation, Presentation skills
Languages known - English, French, Hindi, Tamil
Research Experience (Purdue University, USA)
Experimental & CFD Study of a Swirl-stabilized Flame for Gas Turbine Combustor
Modeled and manufactured multiple double-zone co-rotating 60 degree swirler
Identified flame hot-spots and re-circulation regions and proposed design recommendations based on CFD analyses
Thermal Analysis of Cooling Duct in Gas Turbine Engine Blades (Funded by SIEMENS, U.S.A)
Demonstrated improvement in pressure recovery by 12% for trapezoidal cross section for duct
Provided design recommendations to uniformly distribute heat flux and avoid localized hot-spots
Publication
CFD Correlation with Wind-Tunnel for Dry Van Trailer Aerodynamic Devices, 2016 SAE International Journal of Commercial Vehicles-V125-2EJ
Timeline
Project Associate
Centre Of Excellence In Hypersonics (COEH), IISC
12.2020 - 03.2022
Application Engineer
EXA Corporation
06.2014 - 12.2017
CFD Internship
EXA Corporation, Europe
05.2013 - 06.2013
Masters of Science in Aeronautics And Astronautics -
Purdue University
08.2009 - 01.2014
Flight Performance Trainee
Indian Institute of Technology
01.2009 - 01.2009
Summer Internship
Indian Institute of Technology
06.2008 - 08.2008
B.E in Aeronautical Engineering -
Madras Institute of Technology (Anna University)
05.2005 - 05.2009
High School Diploma -
NSN MHSS
05.2004 - 05.2005
Project Engineer II
Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA), Bengaluru
3 2022 - Current
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