ASSISTANT MANAGER - MECHANICAL ENGINEER
FIRE ENGINEERS AUSTRALIA
Total years of experience :3 years, 2 Months
Fire Engineers Australia (Assistant Manager-Mechanical Engineer, Bangalore, April’23 - Present)
• Thermal design for buildings using fire and smoke modelling by developing CFD (LES) and analytical models.
• Perform complex evacuation modelling and Pyrolysis modelling.
• Exhaust and make-up air design for the building based on heat transfer studies in a building considering fire
scenarios.
• Managing a team of five (5) engineers and Quality assessment of the fire engineering reports (FER).
• Worked on fire engineering including fire modelling (FDS) for complex buildings such as glass plant, paper
recycling plant etc.
Fire Engineers Australia (Mechanical Engineer, Bangalore, July’21 - March’23)
• Worked on fire engineering for complex buildings such as PMM3, warehouses, hotel buildings, residential
apartments, school buildings etc.
• Prepared Fire Engineering Brief (FEB), Fire Engineering Report (FER), Consultant Advice letters and Building
Fire Safety Risk Assessment (BFSRA) based on Building Code of Australia (BCA).
• Carried out fire modelling using CFD to study fire & smoke spread characteristics in various kind of buildings.
• Carried out evacuation modelling for complex buildings.
Key Skills: Fire Engineering, Fire modelling, Heat transfer studies, thermal design, FDS modelling, CFD, ANSYS,
MATLAB, Python, Evacuation modelling, Building Code of Australia, NFPA, BS (British Standards), FM Global.
Development of Efficient Chiller Packages (Project Associate, IITM-Project sponsored by VOLTAS, May’18-
July’18)
• Minimization of refrigerant inventory by adopting falling film evaporators, a combination of falling film evaporators and flooded evaporators in chillers has been formulated in MATLAB.
• Optimization of refrigerant distribution for tray type arrangement on the tube bundles using CFD.
• Critical study of heat transfer aspects and enhancements by using spray-injection of refrigerant on tube bundles.
• Key Skills: CFD, ANSYS (Fluent, ICEM-CFD Meshing), HyperMesh, MATLAB coding.
Numerical study of falling film evaporation on horizontal tube bundle (CFD) • A quantitative comparison of heat transfer characteristics for falling film evaporation of horizontal tube bundles with inline and staggered arrangements with tray-type distributor using multiphase flow model, Volume of Fluid (VOF) method. • Study the physics of the interaction between liquid film and vapour formed and its effects on film formation and heat transfer both qualitatively and quantitatively. • Optimization of the liquid feeder system by conducting heat transfer performance studies between tray-type and slot-type feeder system. • Optimization of tube bundle arrangement by providing vapour flow paths for efficient film formation thereby increasing the heat transfer. • Optimization of Film Reynolds number and Degree of Superheat to attain maximum heat transfer performance. • Key Skills: CFD modelling, ANSYS (Fluent, ICEM-CFD Meshing), MATLABOptimization Algorithms, Python-Data Visualization, Fluid Volume Method (FVM).