About

I am an experimental fluid mechanician and a postdoctoral research fellow at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, where I co-established the Transient Fluid Mechanics Laboratory with Asst. Prof. Omri Ram. My research looks at how unsteady flows and coherent structures interact with solid boundaries, moving bodies and fluid interfaces.

I studied aerospace engineering at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham and IIT Kanpur, then moved to Johns Hopkins University for an M.S.E. and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering with Prof. Joseph Katz. My doctoral work connected flow, pressure and loads on an airfoil undergoing dynamic stall, and along the way I designed and built a 2,000 L refractive-index-matched water tunnel.

At the Technion I built a 7 m automated shock tube, refractive-index-matched tomographic PTV and an interface scanning system, and I developed the open-source tools LE-DM and uPrime. I mentor M.Sc. and Ph.D. students in the lab and lead the PIV module of the Advanced Measurement Techniques course. Ongoing work on boiling and bubble-driven convection is extending these methods toward interfacial heat and mass transfer.