Born 1997 in Chennai, India
Education
August 2018 – July 2020
Masters Chemical Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India.
Master thesis: Development of three-dimensional LBM to study the film effects during isothermal evaporative drying in a square capillary tube
August 2014 – May 2018
Bachelors in Chemical Engineering, St. Joseph’s College of Engineering, Chennai, India
Experience
Since October 2020
Research Associate, Chair of Thermal Process Engineering, Otto-von-Guericke-University and International Max Planck Resesarch School, Magdeburg, Gemany
Lattice Boltzmann Simulation for invasion processes during water electrolysis.
Among the critical challenges of the 21st century, providing sufficient and clean energy for a growing population while coping with the difficulties of global warming is still a struggle to the scientific community. Thus, transforming renewable energy to most reliable form of energy, electrochemical energy conversion is more promising technology. Therefore, water electrolysis is a major technology in demand for future sustainable development and the efficient hydrogen production is a potential substitute to the energy economy as hydrogen economy.
Here, we elucidate the invasion pattern of O2 gas evolving during the electrochemical splitting of water and mass transport losses in the anodic porous transport layer (PTL) using Lattice Boltzmann model (LBM). LBM is a mesoscale approach which plays as an interface by solving the Navier-Stokes equation at macroscale and imitate the pseudopotential intermolecular forces at microscale. Validation experiments will be provided to further to track the invasion patterns and renders LBM as a powerful multiphase CFD tool for intricate application of electrolysis in PTL.
