Curriculum Vitae

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Somanahalli Nagabhushan, Pradeep

Westring 14, 44623 Herne (Germany)
+4917676944844
sn.pradeep@gmail.com
http://de.linkedin.com/pub/pradeep-somanahalli-nagabhushan/12/2a1/589

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26/08/1982
Male

Occupational field Turbomachinery (Mechanical Engineering)

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15/01/2011 Present
Scientific Staff , Institute of Turbomachinery, Uni. Duisburg Essen (https://www.unidue.de/tm/index_en.php)

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Numerical Investigation and experimental validation of a 4 stage Axial compressor using

Streamline Curvature and CFD methods.
Sensitivity analysis of inlet fogging or wet compression process in a 4 stage axial compressor
using ANSYS CFX.
Numerical investigation of pressure swirl atomizer for Inlet fogging applications using Free
Surface and Euler Lagrange method (ANSYS CFX).
Implementation of real gas Kretzschmar libraries into ANSYS CFX for real gas simulations
Development of evaporation models using FORTRAN for implementation into streamline
curvature software.
Single droplet evaporation investigations for inlet fogging and crossflow injection applications.

01/04/2010 - 31/12/2010
Master Thesis Student @ Department of Turbomachinery
Design and Numerical Investigation of a 4 stage Axial compressor
The aim of this project was to design a research compressor for the chair of Turbomachinery
The entire design was carried out in a systematic manner to achieve an optimized design.
Parametric analysis to choose optimum design point.
Meanline design of 4 stage axial compressor using Mathcad.
Blade design using free vortex and radial equilibrium method.
Control of design based on Dehaller, Diffusion factor and Mach number.
Parametric design of blades using ProE Wildfire 5.0
Grid generation and Numerical investigation using ANSYS Turbogrid and CFX
Department of Turbomachinery, University of Duisburg Essen
Forsthausweg 2, 47057 Duisburg (Germany)
01/03/2010 - 31/10/2010 (19 hrs per week)
Research student @ Institut fr Energie- und Umwelttechnik
2D and 3D grid generation using Gambit 2.4
Parametric analysis of a Electro-Hydrodynamic model using Fluent 12.1 to study electrical effects at
high temperatures (Radiation, diffusive transport).
Fine Particle Model analysis of the reactor to study Thermophoretic effects.
University of Duisburg Essen, Institut fr Energie- und Umwelttechnik
Bliersheimer Strae 60, 47229 Duisburg (Germany)
01/04/2009 - 30/09/2009
Internship Student
Implementation of Bisection algorithm for 1D Aerothermodynamics of Radial Compressor and
comparison of results with Newton method and fixed point iteration method.
Numerical Optimization of Radial Compressors using regression analysis and student's t distribution.

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MAN Diesel & Turbo SE

Stadtbachstrasse 1, 86153 Augsburg (Germany)
19/02/2007 - 04/10/2007
Mechanical Engineer Design
Components and fixtures design of Evacuation Slides.
Managing and Coordinating with Phoenix, USA Design team at Goodrich Aerospace
3D Modeling of UD and M3 conformity fixtures for the A380 evacuation slide system using ProE.
Goodrich Aerospace Services Pvt. Ltd.
Maruthi Industrial Estate Phase 2, 560048 Bangalore (India)
13/08/2006 - 18/01/2007
CAD Engineer
Worked for HCL technologies through Sapthagiri CAD Centre as CAD Engineer to support Novellus
SAP Processes and Design activities from HCL Bangalore.
Sapthagiri CAD Centre
1st Main, 3rd Stage Basaveshwara Nagar, 560079 Bangalore (India)
27/04/2005 - 29/07/2006
Engineer CAD
1. Development of TGDC for the production of products such as input and exhaust manifold of
Hyundai cars.
2. Design and development of sheet rolling machine for roll forming operation of aerospace
components and fulfill the needs of Dynamatic Aerospace
3. Modeling of critical aerospace sheet metal components of the Advanced Light Helicopter.
Powermetric, a division of Dynamatic Technologies Ltd.
Dynamatic Park, Peenya Industrial Area, 560058 Bangalore (India)
01/12/2004 - 25/04/2005
Trainee Engineer
Concept design and development, Prototype production, testing and documentation (PPAP).
Successfully executed Design of fuel gauge for Scooty Pep. After execution of the project we got a
long term production approval for the fuel gauge from TVS Motors.
Multilink
Peenya Industrial Area, 4th Phase, 560058 Bangalore (India)

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13/04/2008 - 13.05.2011
Master of Science in Computational Mechanics
Computational Fluid Dynamics, Aerothermodynamics of internal flows, Turbulent flows, Gasdynamics
University of Duisburg Essen
Duisburg (Germany)
15/09/1999 - 15/04/2004
Bachelor in Engineering of Industrial and Production Engineering
Fluid Mechanics, Machine design, Computer aided design, Production technology etc.
Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering (Affiliated to : Visveswaraiah Technological University)
Mysore (India)

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Kannada
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English C2 Proficient user C2 Proficient user C2 Proficient user C2 Proficient user C2

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German B1 Independent user B1 Independent user B1 Independent user B1 Independent user B1 Independent user
Hindi C2 Proficient user C2 Proficient user C2 Proficient user C2 Proficient user C2

Proficient user

Technical skills and CFD: ANSYS CFX 12.1, STARCCM+

CAD: Pro/Engineer Wildfire 5.0
competences Grid Generation: ICEM CFD, ANSYS Turbogrid,
Programming: Matlab/Scilab, Fortran, Mathcad
Operating System: Windows
Office Tools: MS Word, Powerpoint, Excel

Additional information Projects Executed (Academic):

1. Numerical investigation of flow over NACA0012 and NACA4412 airfoils using ICEM and StarCCM+
to study Aerodynamic characteristics (CD, CL, Cp). Various simulations at angle of attack ranging from
-2 to 16 and for various Reynolds number were carried out and different graphs were plotted to study
behaviour of drag, lift and CP.
2. Bluff body Aerodynamics (Flow over a cylinder) at different Reynolds numbers using StarCCM+ to
study various turbulence models, compute frequency of vortices, and angle of separation.
3. 1D Parametric analysis and design a simple turbojet to achieve specific thrust of 4000lbf and plot
an optimization carpet to study behaviour of the turbojet.
4. Solid Modeling and Structural Analysis of Gear Pump Casing (Academic).
5. Design and Fabrication of Automated Material Handling / Transfer system (Academic).
6. This work is based on water quenching process. The gas coming out of gassifier is cooled by
injecting cold water. Grid generation and Numerical investigation of a gassifier quench was carried out
using Gambit 2.4 and Fluent 6.3. For this case k-epsilon turbulence model was used.

Publications

Experimental validation of methods providing boundary conditions to simulate the evaporation

process of water injected into high speed air flow. ( 1 st Author)
Use of Euler free surface flow analysis to provide appropriate injection conditions in Euler
Lagrange numerical models. (2nd Author)
Testrig design to explore water droplet behaviour in a 4 stage axial compressor. (4 th Author)

Dr.-Ing. Friedrich-Karl Benra

References 1. Prof.
Universitt Duisburg-Essen
Campus Duisburg
Institute of Turbomachinery
friedrich.benra@uni-due.de

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Dipl.-Ing. Jan Philipp Schnitzler

Universitt Duisburg-Essen
Campus Duisburg
Institute of Turbomachinery
jan.schnitzler@uni-due.de