Akshay Bhargava, PE, LEED® Green Associate™

Indianapolis, Indiana, United States Contact Info
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  • CMTA, Inc.

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Publications

  • Review of Characteristics of Low Temperature Combustion (LTC)

    28th Annual Conference on Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems, ILASS-Americas 2016

  • Photovoltaic-Thermoelectric Systems for Building Cooling Applications: A Preliminary Study

    ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE), 2016

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  • Ornithopter Design and Operation

    International Journal of Mechanical And Production Engineering, ISSN: 2320-2092

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  • Cryogenic Treatment of Metals

    National Conference on Recent Trends in Mechanical Engineering (NCRTME–2014)

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  • Fused Deposition Modeling – An Advanced Manufacturing

    National Conference on Recent Trends in Mechanical Engineering (NCRTME–2014)

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  • Ornithopter Design and Operation

    International Conference on Mechanical and Production Engineering, Pune

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  • Reduction of Cold Start Emissions

    National Conference on Recent Trends in Mechanical Engineering (NCRTME–2014)

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  • Strengths and Dilemmas of Organizational Integration Through Computer

    National Conference on Recent Trends in Mechanical Engineering (NCRTME–2014)

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  • Computer Aided Design

    National Conference on Manufacturing Excellence (MANFEX - 2011)

  • Environment Impact Assesment

    National Conference on “Sustainable Development of Water Resources and Environmental Management”, 2011

  • Enabling Technology Platforms

    National Conference on “Role of Green Chemistry for Risk Free Environment”, 2010

Courses

  • Advanced CFD for High-Speed Flows

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  • Automotive Engineering

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  • Combustion Fundamentals

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  • Computational Fluid Dynamics

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  • Conduction Heat Transfer

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  • Convection Heat Transfer

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  • Engineering Design

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  • Fluid Mechanics

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  • Fundamentals of Aerodynamics

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  • Heat and Mass Transfer

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  • Internal Combustion Engines

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  • Thermodynamics

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  • Viscous Flows

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Projects

  • Study of Photovoltaic-Thermoelectric Systems for Building Cooling & Heating Applications

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    ● Carried out a feasibility study on utilizing photovoltaic/thermoelectric systems for implementing residential air conditioning
    ● Designed building integrated photovoltaic – thermoelectric systems for building cooling and heating applications
    ● Solved heat transfer and electrical model equations for proposed system
    ● Developed a detailed mathematical model using MATLAB
    ● Performed a simulation to assess the performance of the system in both summer and winter conditions
    ● Created…

    ● Carried out a feasibility study on utilizing photovoltaic/thermoelectric systems for implementing residential air conditioning
    ● Designed building integrated photovoltaic – thermoelectric systems for building cooling and heating applications
    ● Solved heat transfer and electrical model equations for proposed system
    ● Developed a detailed mathematical model using MATLAB
    ● Performed a simulation to assess the performance of the system in both summer and winter conditions
    ● Created a building simulation model using energy plus, MATLAB and Simulink.

  • Design of Cooling Mechanism of Dynamometer

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    ● Designed cooling mechanism for dynamometer based on performance parameters
    ● Programmed in FORTRAN to calculate dynamometer cooling system parameters
    ● Programmed in LabVIEW to setup communication between drivers and gas analyzers on test rig

  • Study of Microscale Heat Transfer in Biological Tissues

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    ● Studied effects of heat transfer on skin tissue
    ● Created tissue model using SolidWorks and meshed using ICEM-CFD
    ● Performed temperature analysis on model using ANSYS Fluent and COMSOL Multiphysics
    ● Created user defined functions for time dependent pulsed laser source and variable time steps in Fluent

  • Design of Computational Fluid Dynamics Models

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    ● Solved CFD model equations for Incompressible Flow applications using C++ & MATLAB
    ● Solved Euler and Navier-Stokes Equation for High Speed Flow applications using C++ and MATLAB

  • Design and Analysis of Hypersonic Propulsion Heat Transfer

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    ● Developed heat exchanger system to burn hydrocarbon fuel in supersonic combustor
    ● Performed Heat Transfer and Thermodynamic calculations for the design of computational model
    ● Coded in FORTRAN to establish an empirical relation between JP-10 fuel and estimated performance of pre-heater

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  • Study of Low Temperature Combustion Engines

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    ● Studied the characteristics of Low Temperature Combustion Engines
    ● Emphasized on improvement techniques to enhance the robustness and efficiency of LTC operation in diesel engine
    ● Authored paper documenting results of experiment carried out

  • Design of Internal Combustion Engine

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    ● Utilized and modified a computer code, based on fuel/air analysis, to predict the performance of two and four stoke fuel inducted engines
    ● Generated detailed report on engine design based on fuel/air analysis
    ● Predicted performance of two/four stroke engines using analysis report

  • Design of Ornithopter

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    ● Designed model of Ornithopter using SolidWorks
    ● Created working model of Ornithopter based on the principle of dual crank flapping mechanism
    ● Authored journal paper documenting results

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Languages

  • English

    Full professional proficiency

  • Hindi

    Native or bilingual proficiency

Organizations

  • American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE)

    Member

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    • Membership Chair – Central Indiana Chapter, 2017-2018 • Membership Subcommittee Chair & Corresponding Member, ASHRAE TC 5.2 – Duct Design Committee • Corresponding Member, ASHRAE TC 1.3 – Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow Technical Committee • Newsletter Editor & Canaveral Council of Technical Societies (CCTS) Representative – Spacecoast (Florida) Chapter, 2016-2017 • Leadership U Representative - 2017 ASHRAE Annual Conference • LeaDRS Representative – 2017 ASHRAE Winter Conference • Past…

    • Membership Chair – Central Indiana Chapter, 2017-2018 • Membership Subcommittee Chair & Corresponding Member, ASHRAE TC 5.2 – Duct Design Committee • Corresponding Member, ASHRAE TC 1.3 – Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow Technical Committee • Newsletter Editor & Canaveral Council of Technical Societies (CCTS) Representative – Spacecoast (Florida) Chapter, 2016-2017 • Leadership U Representative - 2017 ASHRAE Annual Conference • LeaDRS Representative – 2017 ASHRAE Winter Conference • Past Vice-President & Treasurer – FIT Student Chapter

  • American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)

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  • Royal Aeronautical Society

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  • Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)

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