Some internally cooled and small inaccesible and thick-walled enclosures like turbine blades and electronics packaging, cannot be directly measured for thermal performance due to the inaccessibility. Thus, inverse heat transfer was used to measure the temperature from an easier location but not the…

Jet impingement is highly effective in cooling localised hotspots, and is used in turbine blade leading edges since leading edges face the brunt of hot gases in the combustion chamber of a jet engine. To improve efficiency multiple jets in various layouts are used, which were investigated…

My team at ASM's America office tasked me with suggesting design improvements to the gas delivery systems of its process machines for a wider range of operating conditions.

An aircraft seat design was proposed, as an Indian alternative to imported aircraft seats for light aircraft, and needed to adhere to federal standards of static and dynamic testing before it was…

For a prototype heat exchanger developed by a PhD student at BITS Pilani, sensors and instrumentation were required to be setup, as well as some assembly.

Grasping and reaching movements of octopuses were important in the potential conceptualisation and design of an octopus-inspired soft robot. This motion had to be recreated for silicone rubber as the soft-robotic analogue, assuming embedded cables, or pneumatic actuation as the force…

BITS Pilani, a notable university in India where I did my undergrad, has a team that competes in SAE BAJA competitions. Given that we were trying to improve our BAJA ATV for AWD drive trains, a new gearbox had to be…

BITS Pilani, a notable university in India where I did my undergrad, has a student community that is affiated to SEDS and had been trying to compete in the Spaceport America collegiate competition held globally. We were trying to improve control over the altitude by testing out an airbrake…