Prasanta Sarkar

Building next-gen scalable & modular electrolyzers for producing green hydrogen.

BA3 | BA4 | Iterated quickly on building businesses on problems ranging from wind turbine inspection drones to Saas for novel material discovery.

Marie Curie fellowship from european commission for project CaFE on development of computational models for cavitating flows, surface erosion damage and material loss during hydrodynamic cavitation.

Marie Curie fellowship from european commission for project IMESCON in the area of active flow control technology & helicopter rotor performance prediction. -Developed an approach for coupled multi physics simulation & optimization of piezoelectric-driven active flow control systems (AFCS) for rotor blade aerodynamics. -CFD investigation of aerofoil aerodynamics for evaluating rotor blade stall characteristics & impact of active flow control systems on alleviating dynamic stall.

Gathering, monitoring & analysing data on behalf of social housing councils to provide feedback on service quality.

Thesis title - ‘Simulation of cavitation erosion by a coupled CFD-FEM approach’. -Developed compressible cavitation solver with arbitrary-lagrangian eulerian (ALE) formulation using Fortran & Python in the CFD code YALES2 for simulating hydrodynamic cavitation in fluids. -Developed & validated step-wise methodology for fluid-structure interaction (FSI) coupling with FEM code Cast3M to analyse the multi-physics coupled dynamics in cavitation erosion. -Numerical modelling of the dynamics of cavitation bubble collapse near solid walls & multi-physics simulation for estimating solid surface deformation & material erosion.

1. MS Dissertation - ‘Acoustic liners on modern turbofan engines’. -Investigated role of acoustic liners in the duct of large bypass turbofan engines & developed a simulation program using Fortran to predict fan noise trajectories of commercial aircraft engines on different flight profiles. 2. Design Project - ‘Development of a generic design process for man portable UAV systems’. -Led a team as Project Manager to develop a design process for fixed wing UAVs for autonomous flight vehicle training applications & validated it by designing, building & successful flight testing of the modular UAV platform.

1. B.Tech Dissertation at GTRE, DRDO - ‘Three Dimensional Numerical Study in an Afterburner of a Gas Turbine Engine’ -Studied various configurations of the flame holder & analysed flow behaviour using Ansys Fluent of an afterburner of a turbofan jet engine. 2. Internship - ‘Overhaul of RD-33 turbofan engine’ at HAL Engine Division, Koraput. 3. Appreciation award in the module of Creativity, Innovation and New Product Development.