Dr. Trushar B.

Gohil

Assistant Professor Contact No. :(Mobile) +91 - 8888872132

Department of Mechanical Engineering Email: [email protected]
BITS, Pilani- K. K. Birla Goa Campus, Goa
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AREA OF INTERESTS
• Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) • DNS, LES and RANS modeling
• Parallel Computation • Code Development
• Turbulent Flows • Jet Flow Control
• Bio-fluid flows • Industrial applications of CFD

EDUCATIONAL PROFILE

2004 - 2010 Ph.D., Department of Mechanical Engineering,

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur (India)
(CPI: 9.45/10)

2000 - 2002 M.E., Department of Mechanical Engineering,

V.J.T.I., Mumbai. (Mumbai University, India)
(Percentage: First class with distinction 75%)

1994 – 1998 B.E., Bhavnagar University (Gujarat, India)

(Percentage: First class with distinction 67%)

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

September 2013 Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Present BITS, Pilani- K. K. Birla Goa Campus, Goa.

January 2011- ESI-Group, Pacific Mindware Engg. Pvt. Ltd., Pune, India.
August 2013 Designation: Senior Developer
• Turbulent model development for ACE+ software.
• Heat Exchanger model with turbulence correction implementation.
• OpenFOAM project management and execution for automotive
industries.

March 2008 – Involved in Indo-Swiss Project, Computer Vision Lab of the Swiss Federal
June 2008 Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ), Switzerland. Funded by Indo-
Swiss Joint Research Programme (ISJRP).
Summary:
• The project duration was two years.
• Finite volume, unstructured code development for complex
cardiovascular applications.
My Contribution:
• Improve convective schemes as well as interpolation methods.
• Code parallelization on shared-memory environment using
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• Code validation.

December 2004- Ph.D.

2010 Advisors: Dr. A. K. Saha and Professor K. Muralidhar, Department of
Mechanical engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur.

Title: “Control of Circular and Square Jets Using Large Scale

Perturbations: A Numerical Study”

• Thesis involved the development of finite difference code for DNS

and LES for incompressible Navier-Stoke equation. The code is
parallelized on a distributed-memory environment, using MPI
libraries.
• To develop proper controlling strategies for better spreading and
mixing of circular and square jets.
• More details enclosed.

July 2002 - Mech -Well Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai, India.

December 2004 Designation: CFD Project Leader

Project executed:
• Project related to thermal power plants

Flow field analysis of ESP

Design and analysis of cyclone separator

Flow field analysis of second pass of boiler

Flow field analysis of many ducts of power plants
• Project related to automotive industry more detail is enclosed

Responsibility:
• Project management and execution.
• Design and Analysis

August 1998 - Vimal Steel Pvt. Ltd., Bhavnagar, India.

March 2000 Designation: Trainee Engineer

COMPUTER PROFICIENCY
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• Operating Systems: Linux, Windows
• Languages: Fortran, C, C++
• Parallel Processing : MPI, OpenMP
• Open Source Codes: OpenFOAM
• CFD Software: Fluent, CFX, PHOENICS,ACE+
• Meshing Software: ICEM-CFD ( Hexa And Tetra )
• Other Software: Tecplot, MatLab

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International Journals:
1. Trushar B. Gohil, Arun K. Saha, and K. Muralidhar, “Control of Flow in Forced
Jets: A Comparison of Round and Square Cross-Sections”, Journal of Visualization,
2010 (13), 141-149, DOI 10.1007/s12650-009-0020-7.
2. Trushar B. Gohil, Robert McGregor, Dominik Szczerba, Kathrin Burckhardt, K.
Muralidhar, and G. Székely, “Simulation of Oscillatory Flow in an Aortic Bifurcation
Using FVM and FEM: A Comparative Study of Implementation Strategies”,
International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, 2010, DOI:
10.1002/fid.2301.
3. Trushar B. Gohil, Arun K. Saha, and K. Muralidhar, “Direct Numerical Simulation
of Naturally Evolving Circular Jet”, Journal of Fluids Engineering, 2011, Vol. 133
111203-1.
4. Trushar B. Gohil, Arun K. Saha, and K. Muralidhar, “Numerical study of instability
mechanisms in a circular jet at low Reynolds numbers”, Computers and Fluid,
2012, Vol. 64, 1-48.
5. Trushar B. Gohil, Arun K. Saha, and K. Muralidhar, "Direct numerical simulation of
forced circular jets: Effect of varicose perturbation", International Journal of Heat
and Fluid Flow, 2013, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheatfluidflow.2013.08.008.
6. Trushar B. Gohil, Arun K. Saha, and K. Muralidhar, "Large eddy simulation of a
free circular jet", Journal of Fluids Engineering (Accepted).
7. Trushar B. Gohil, Arun K. Saha, and K. Muralidhar, "Direct Numerical Simulation
of free and forced square jets"(in preparation, targeted journal Computers and
Fluid).
8. Trushar B. Gohil, Arun K. Saha, and K. Muralidhar, “Effect of Large-Scale
Perturbation on Circular Jets: Formation and Control of Blooming Jets”, (in
preparation, targeted journal Journal of Fluid Mechanics).
9. Trushar B. Gohil, Arun K. Saha, and K. Muralidhar, “Modal Analysis of Free and
Forced Circular Jets”, (in preparation, targeted journal Physics of Fluids).
10. Trushar B. Gohil, “FSI applicability in Bio-medical flows using OpenFOAM” (in
preparation, targeted journal Computational Mechanics).

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National Conferences:
1. Trushar B. Gohil “Large eddy simulation (LES) of circular jet at a Reynolds number
of 10,000”, Submitted FMFP-2012, SVNIT, Gujarat.
2. Trushar B. Gohil, Arun K. Saha, and K. Muralidhar, “Modal Analysis of Free and
Forced Circular Jets at Low and High Reynolds Numbers”, FMFP-2010, IIT Madras.
3. Trushar B. Gohil, K. Muralidhar, and Dominik Szczerba, “Effect of Frequency and
Reynolds Number on Flow in a Tubular Bifurcation,”, Proceedings of the 36th Fluid
Mechanics and Fluid Power Conference, held at College of Engineering, Pune, paper
number 03-FM-1, 2009.
4. Trushar B. Gohil, Arun K. Saha, and K. Muralidhar, “Effect of Forcing Frequency
on Flow Control of a Square Jet”, Proceedings of the 36th Fluid Mechanics and Fluid
Power Conference, held at College of Engineering, Pune, paper number 40-FC-1,
2009.
5. Trushar B. Gohil, Arun K. Saha, and K. Muralidhar, “Control of Flow in Forced
Jets: A Comparison of Round and Square Cross-Sections”, 35th National Conference
on Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Power, held at PESIT Bangalore, 198-207, 2008.
6. Trushar B. Gohil, K. Muralidhar, and Dominik Szczerba, “Simulation of Oscillatory
Flow in an Aortic Bifurcation”, 35th National Conference on Fluid Mechanics and
Fluid Power, held at PESIT Bangalore, pp. 620-626, 2008.
7. Trushar B. Gohil, Arun K. Saha, and K. Muralidhar, “Direct Numerical Simulation
of Forced Round Jets”, IISc Centenary – International Conference on Advances in
Mechanical Engineering (IC-ICAME), July 2-4, 2008.
International Conferences:
1. Trushar B. Gohil, A.K. Saha, and K. Muralidhar, “Modal decomposition of free and
forced circular jets at low and high Reynolds numbers”, paper number T9(2),
presented at the Annual March Meeting of the American Physical Society, held at
Dallas, Texas during 21-25 March 2011.
2. K. Muralidhar, Trushar B. Gohil, and A.K. Saha, “Direct Numerical Simulation of
Forced Jets”, Paper number LD3, presented at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the
Division of Fluid Mechanics, held at Minneapolis, Minnesota during 22-24 November
2009.