Duraikannan Maruthavanan

1. Responsible for Research &Development Project of the Central Innovation Programme (ZIM) for Small and Medium-Scaled Enterprises (SMEs) Project Title: CFD based design and development of a novel passive pump for patient-specific manufacturing of solid drugs using Glovebox (Negative Pressure Isolator) Project Status: Completed; currently in the patenting process. 2. Research activity in Fluid-Structure Interaction Modelling of Soft Pneumatic Actuators in Soft Robots and their Design Optimization

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) based modeling of thermoelectric behavior of Positive Temperature Coefficient (PTC) heaters used in automotive Heating, Ventilation, Air-Conditioning (HVAC)

1. Familiarization with the functionality of HVAC and flow behavior inside it 2. Executing CFD simulations and post-processing results 3. Formulation of HVAC model for performing CFD simulations to generate temperature control curves 4. Analysis of flow behavior in HVAC systems with special focus on mass flow through heater 5. Investigation of the impact of cold flap design parameters on mass flow split-up inside HVAC

Software Development and support in Mainframe systems 1. Running the JCL jobs for regular updates IBM Mainframe database system DB2. 2. Programming in COBOL for product development in the Insurance and Healthcare sectors from the United States 3. Customer support by solving technical issues in the user interface system of mainframe (CICS) 4. Code implementation in production to fix the long term bugs in the application 5. Hands-on training in C, C++, MySQL, Java

The course extensively covered Numerical simulation of engineering problems in the field of Automotive, Mechanical, Civil, Medical, and so on. I have chosen the field of Fluid Mechanics for the application of numerical simulation and studied courses such as Computational Fluid Mechanics (CFD), Turbulent Flows, Gas Dynamics, Aero-thermodynamics of Fluid Flow with academic projects. Furthermore, the course covered Finite-Element methods for solving structural mechanics problems and programming.