Raguram Nagarajan

In my doctoral thesis, I performed 0D and 1D numerical simulations to understand the combustion and emission characteristics of syngas/natural gas fuel mixture with exhaust gas recirculation. In addition, I investigated the effects of carbon monoxide addition on methane flames using direct simulations. Currently, I am developing a numerical model that can predict the combustion characteristics of non-adiabatic non-premixed methane flames.

I organised and volunteered symposiums, department seminars and various social events. In addition, I also performed surveys to identify the issues faced by our peers that are common across the faculty. I participated in faculty committee meetings, doctoral college committee meetings and academic board meetings. In these meetings, I helped the committee members and board members to understand the general management issues that are identified by our research rep team.

I performed data analysis using climate data and energy consumption data of Dutch households to identify the possibilities for introducing micro-CHP instead of CV-ketels for house heating applications. Using the results of the data analysis, I determined operational cost, investment cost and break-even time associated with the introduction of mCHP in Dutch households.

I tested software at delivery stage to ensure quality. I periodically reported the defects and performance of the software to developers. I regularly interacted with clients to clarify queries regarding defects. I prepared status report about the project at the end of the day and the week.

Mechanical engineering, Combustion, DNS, 1D simulations, renewable gases, MILD combustion, High Performance Computing (HPC).

Transport Phenomena, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics, Numerical methods, Engineering Acoustics, Combustion, Programming, Experimental Techniques in Physics of Fluids and renewable energy.

Fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, manufacturing engineering, mechatronics, automobile engineering, finite volume method, design engineering, robotics, strength of materials, total quality management and applied mechanics.