Tushar Umesh

Passionate mechanical design enthusiast with 4 years of experience working on projects during my engineering degree. Adept in CAD, FEA, and CFD software. Quick learner, strategic decision-maker, and adept at maintaining efficiency and optimism in challenging situations.

• Automobile Engineering
• Hybrid EVs
• Aeronautical Engineering
• CAD Design
• Thermal Engineering
• CFD analysis and simulation

• Cricket
• Badminton
• Reading Novels
• Watching movies
• listening to music

Computational Fluid Mechanics-Flow around a Spoiler (Coursera)

• Guided project to simulate the airflow around the spoiler of a GT sports car using cloud simulation software SimScale.

Design (CAD modelling) of inline 4 Cylinder piston arrangement (Self Project)

• Designed a CAD model of a 4 cylinder piston arrangement using Fusion 360 software.
• Modelled the joints (kinematic modelling), based on flat plane firing sequence.

Ackermann Steering using Geogebra      

Jan 2022- Feb 2022  [Guide: Prof. Sriram Sundar]

Simulation of Ackermann steering using Geogebra and finding velocities and acceleration vectors at critical joints.

Flywheel using Simscape Multibody 

Feb 2022- May 2022 [Guide: Prof. Sriram Sundar]

Simulation of flywheel and demonstrating the fluctuation of Kinetic energy coefficient for the cases of varying torque input and varying torque load.

Attitude Dynamics and Sensor noise

Oct 2022- Nov 2022 modelling of Satellite [Guide : Dr. Yujendra Mitikiri]

• Modelling the attitude kinematics and dynamics of a satellite and the sensor outputs using statistical noise parameters.
• Incorporating non-idealities such as saturation limits for sensors and Gaussian noise and sampling jitter of the sensors and actuators.
• Model provides a comparison of the estimated attitude obtained using the Extended Kalman Filter, Triad Algorithm, and Davenport’s Q-method.

Heat Conduction in a 2D slab 

Sep 2022- Nov 2022 [Guide : Dr. Girish Kumar Rajan]

Wrote a MATLAB code to plot the transient temperature profiles throughout the slab for a given heat generation equation assuming the following two cases: 1) Constant properties 2) Properties varying with temperature. (Properties : K, Cp)

Computational Investigation of NREL Phase 6 rotor 

Aug 2023- Dec 2023 [Guide: Dr.Balaji Subramaniam]

• Designed a CAD model of the NREL phase wind turbine blade using Fusion 360.
• Used an unstructured mesh with multi-reference frame approach to calculate drag Co-efficients and pressure distribution on the blade. [Done in Ansys Workbench]
• Verified the results obtained with the NREL experimental campaign.

Structured sliding mesh approach to verify NREL phase 6 rotor

Jan 2024- ongoing [Guide: Dr.Balaji Subramaniam]

• Used a structured mesh for CFD simulation of NREL wind turbine blade to obtain a higher mesh quality.
• Use a sliding mesh approach and compare it with the results obtained using multi reference frame model. [Done in ansys Workbench]