SAGAR KALUKHE
CFD Engineer
Pune
Summary
Experienced Lead CFD Engineer with 6 years in CFD analysis across multiple industries including automotive, HVAC, power plants, and oil & gas. Proven expertise in multiphase flow, conjugate heat transfer and optimization processes. Effective leader with a track record of managing teams and delivering projects on time. Detail-oriented, organized and meticulous employee. Works at fast pace to meet tight deadlines. Award-winning CFD Engineer focused on sustainable design. Highly effective at working with teams of CFD engineer and requestors to accomplish projects on-time. Competent Engineering professional offering foundation in engineering project management and analysis. Detail-oriented with strong knowledge of CFD, Heater transfer and thermodynamics and Ansys Fluent, Star CCM+ and converge.
Overview
3
3
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Lead Thermal and Fluid Science Engineer
Cummins India through CAE Services
06.2021 - Current
- Assign task and timeline to each CFD engineers
- Resolve issues and assist team members
- Review CAD, mesh and reports before sharing to customer.
- Review weekly tasks entries and weekly billing
- Developed Automation process for Flow, UI and deposit analysis for reducing time by 20%
- Developed process for complex ATS system with E-heater for spray and deposit analysis
- Improved team productivity by providing technical guidance and mentoring junior engineers
- Achieved successful project outcomes by maintaining accurate documentation and meeting strict deadlines
- Developed positive working relationships with stakeholders to effectively coordinate work activities
- Presented technical findings to stakeholders, ensuring clear understanding of project status and goals
Sr. CFD Engineer
Stymer technology Pvt LTD.
6 2018 - 1 2021
- Modeling, Meshing and Analysis of Industrial Equipment’s
- Detailed study of model for input requirements and giving feedback and assist customers
- Keeping track on input and output information flow
- Analyzing Models by using Ansys Fluent software
- Understand need and requirement of customer and accordingly Analyze product
- Hand calculations if required
- Delivering projects within specified timeline given.
- Providing recommendations for projects, resulting in improved product designs and increased client satisfaction
- Used python script for improving postprocessing timelines.
Education
Master of Technology - Thermal Engineering
College of Engineering Pune
Pune, India 08.2012 - 05.2014
Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering
Walchand Institute of Technology Solapur
Solapur, India 08.2007 - 05.2011
Skills
Ansys Fluent
Star CCM
Converge
Modefrontier
Optislang
Sculptor
Design modeler
Discovery
Space claim
Creo
Technical reporting
Project Management
Troubleshooting
Process Development
Accomplishments
- Pat on Back for conducting an exercise which enables right selections of hardware architecture for advance tower workstation of CES.
- Pat on Back for developing VBA based excel for Spray analysis case setup automation.
- Recognition for developing Optimization process for Flow, Spray and Deposit analysis.
Priorexperience
CFD Analysis of Pillow plate Heat Exchanger with and Without deflector plate, DRDO(2017), In order to check the performance of the thermal panel with deflector plate for temperature, velocity and pressure, a CFD analysis was carried out.
Personal Information
- Nationality: Indian
- Marital Status: Married
Projects
• Optimization of aftertreatment Systems: Developed robust CFD simulation processes to optimize flow, spray, and deposit analysis for SCR-based systems.
• Multidisciplinary Optimization: Used transient thermal and structural analyses to enhance aftertreatment system designs.
• Simulation Workflow for Corrosion Prediction: Developed a workflow using reduced-order models to predict corrosion locations in engine systems.
Disclaimer
I hereby declare that the information above is given true to the best of my knowledge.
Timeline
Lead Thermal and Fluid Science Engineer
Cummins India through CAE Services
06.2021 - Current
Master of Technology - Thermal Engineering
College of Engineering Pune
08.2012 - 05.2014
Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering
Walchand Institute of Technology Solapur
08.2007 - 05.2011
Sr. CFD Engineer
Stymer technology Pvt LTD.
6 2018 - 1 2021
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