I'm a mechanical engineer and CFD researcher with a deep fascination for the chaotic beauty of turbulence. My work sits at the intersection of high-fidelity simulation and RANS closure physics — trying to understand not just what the models predict, but why they fail. Turbulent Thoughts is where I share that thinking openly, for engineers and students who want more than surface-level explanations.
I graduated from BITS Pilani, Hyderabad in 2025 with a B.E. in Mechanical Engineering and a Minor in Aeronautics, finishing in the top 2.5% of my discipline with a CGPA of 8.69.
My research has taken me from turbulent planar free-shear jets at IIT Bombay to tornado-like vortex simulators at the University of Wyoming. The common thread: using CFD not just to get answers, but to understand when and why the models themselves break down.
Most CFD resources either stop at button-clicking tutorials or jump straight into dense mathematics. Turbulent Thoughts tries to occupy the space in between — rigorous enough to be useful, clear enough to actually build intuition.
I write about the failures as much as the successes: solvers that silently break conservation, models that fail structurally rather than numerically, simulations that look right but aren't. That's where the real learning is.