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Mr Manan Thakkar BE, MSE, MSc

Postgraduate research student with the AFM group

Mr Manan Thakkar is a Postgraduate research student with the AFM group within Engineering and Physical Sciences at the University of Southampton.

Academic qualifications:

MSc Race Car Aerodynamics (University of Southampton)
MSE Aerospace Engineering (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
BE Mechanical Engineering (University of Mumbai, India)

Work experience:

Worked as an Application Engineer in the Support Team at Simpleware Ltd; a company which makes innovative software for 3D image based modelling for CFD and FEA
Proficiently used the software to deal with customer questions on a daily basis as well as formulating bespoke computational modelling solutions for high profile clients
Played a key role in the introduction and testing of CFD related features during the software release cycle

What's related

Aerodynamics and Flight Mechanic (AFM)

Links to external websites

Simpleware Limited

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Research interests

Aerodynamics, particularly race car aerodynamics
Turbulence modelling using hybrid RANS/LES approaches
Direct numerical simulation
High performance computing

PhD title: Fluid flow over aerodynamically rough surfaces using Direct Numerical Simulations

Supervisors: Professor Neil Sandham and Professor Bharathram Ganapathisubramani

PhD research

Conduct large scale parallel computations and interpret results of Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS) of fluid flow over aerodynamically rough surfaces
Expand the current available database of rough surfaces to include simulation results from a wider variety of industrial surfaces used in engineering applications
Come up with techniques to correlate various simulation parameters and methods to reduce computational requirements of such large parallel simulations

MSc dissertation project (in collaboration with McLaren Racing)

Performed analysis of turbulent flow over a tandem cylinder geometry using hybrid RANS/LES methods in OpenFOAM
Conducted simulations in parallel, interpreted the results and checked the effects of successive mesh coarsening

Demonstrator for SESS6021 Applications of CFD. Course leader - Dr Zheng-Tong Xie

Interact with 4th year and MSc students to answer their queries relating to theoretical and applied aspects of module tutorials using commercial CFD packages (Star-CCM+ and Fluent)

Mr Manan Thakkar
Engineering, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton. SO17 1BJ United Kingdom

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