Bhuvaneswari Rajendra

I'm a Research Assistant at Florida Institute of Technology with a Masters Degree in Aerospace Engineering. I also have two years of experience in thermal system modeling and development of an algorithm to estimate heat profile by solving Inverse Heat Conduction Problems(IHCP). My true passion for designing and modeling led me to proficiency in modeling products with new innovative ideas utilizing CAD tools like CATIA, Solidworks, and also analyze different heat transfer problems using Simulation software like COMSOL Multiphysics, and ANSYS. I also gained hands-on experience in the modeling of aircraft parts and assemblies with geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T) according to ASME standards.
At Florida Institute of technology, I'm responsible for handling research project under the mentoring of Dr. Najafi, where I developed an In-house algorithm in MATLAB to reconstruct the aerothermal heating on the surface of the reusable launch vehicle. A parametric study was also conducted to optimize the design of the thermal protection system used to protect the reentry vehicles from excessive heating.
Two approaches were utilized to handle the problem
-A direct problem is modeled and solved in Ansys workbench to obtain the interior temperature profile.
-An inverse problem is solved to estimate the unknown heat flux on the surface of the reusable launch vehicle without any external measurements.
Software utilized: ANSYS, COMSOL Multiphysics, MATLAB, Solidworks.

My areas of expertise and industrial experience also lay in the following domains:
-Mechanical, Heat Transfer Analysis.
-Finite Element Analysis(the study of thermal loads and stress on reentry vehicle using ANSYS).
-Computational Fluid Dynamics(Developed a code to solve for ablation phenomenon).