I was the 2022-2023 Team Leader & Head of Aerodynamics of thrustMIT, Manipal Rocketry team and led a 40-member multidisciplinary rocketry team to design, build, and launch a sounding rocket for the Spaceport America Cup 2023. Directed all aerodynamic analysis and flight dynamics modeling,…

The primary goal of this project was to move beyond commercial "black-box" solvers by writing custom MATLAB code to implement foundational aerodynamic theories. The project involved developing, validating, and applying 2D and 3D computational methods to evaluate airfoil performance and compare…

First-place winning hackathon project (Awarded ₹1,00,000 / ~$1,100). Developed a high-precision, 6-degree-of-freedom flight dynamics simulator in Python designed to accurately predict sounding rocket trajectories, apogees, and performance under variable atmospheric…

Culminating Bachelor's Thesis evaluating the aerodynamic and propulsive efficiencies of a novel Rocket-Based Combined Cycle (RBCC) engine for supersonic cruise missile applications. Designed a 3D model in Fusion 360 and conducted rigorous CFD simulations in Ansys Fluent at Mach 2, 3, and 4 to…