Anand Ankala
MBA Student Analytics Consultant at AHIMA
AHIMA
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MBA Student Analytics Consultant
Optimized client's pricing strategy for their top categories to maximize revenue generation from their existing members and generate higher customer lifetime value.
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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AAM - American Axle & Manufacturing
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Fluid Dynamics Analytical Engineer
Greater Detroit Area
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General Motors
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Thermal Engineer
Greater Detroit Area
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Caterpillar Inc.
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CFD Analyst, Simulation and Engineering Analysis group, After-treatment and Cooling Products
Improved the exhaust After-treatment (AT) system performance for CAT engines by using CFD techniques to meet their respective emission norms. 
    -Predicted exhaust backpressure in After-treatment systems by CFD analysis techniques.
    -Simulated flow in different After-treatment systems with FLUENT 14 and validated the flow variables with the lab test data.
    -Performed Geometry clean-up and advanced meshing techniques using ANSA-13.2.1 and Space-Claim.
    -Experienced in Discrete Phase Modeling for sprays and working on different spray designs.
    -Experienced in High Performance Computing and thorough understanding of the cluster interface.
    -Performed Thermal Analysis for exhaust AT system components to manage the heat loads for the cooling systems.
    -Well versed in preparing detailed technical reports of the CFD analyses to be presented to the customer groups of different departments.
    -Contributed to Product Development by performing critical simulations which resulted in significant cost reduction.
    -Experienced in Project scheduling and effective communication with customers.
Peoria, Illinois Area
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University of Florida
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Graduate Research Assistant
•	Worked as a graduate research assistant under Dr. Subrata Roy and had been a part of the Applied Physics Research Group for 1 year and 8 months.
•	As a graduate assistant, my work involved carrying out literature survey, building strong theoretical knowledge in turbulent combustion and plasma actuation, running simulations in Fluent, programming in C++, technical report writing and giving research updates in the form of a presentation to my group.
Applied Physics Research Group
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University of Florida
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Upward Bound Mathematics Teacher
Taught Algebra and Geometry to high school senior students.
Gainesville, Florida Area
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Master of Business Administration - MBA
Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
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Mechanical Engineering, CFD, Thermal Sciences and Fluid Dynamics, Combustion.
Master of Science
University of Florida
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• GPA - 3.79/4.00
• Recipient of Outstanding Academic Achievement Award from the College of Engineering at the University of Florida throughout Masters education
• Thesis cleared for publishing in the open source digital library of the University of Florida
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Mechanical Engineering
B.Tech
National Institute of Technology Warangal
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Effect of Surface Radiation on Conjugate Convection in a Discretely Heated Rectangular Cavity
International Journal of Advanced Engineering and Technology
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Advanced Fluid Mechanics
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Automobile Engineering
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Compressible Flow
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Computational Fluid Dynamics
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Convective Heat Transfer
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Fluid Mechanics
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Numerical Methods
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Thermodynamics
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Numerical Simulation of Plasma Assisted Turbulent Combustion (M.S Thesis)
•	Employed Plasma Actuators in a gas turbine combustion chamber to intensify the flow turbulization for better mixing and combustion.
•	Created the 3D Geometry and Mesh of the gas turbine combustion chamber in GAMBIT 2.4.6 and performed 3D Large Eddy Simulation in FLUENT 6.3.26 to accurately capture the physics involved with the flow modification and combustion phenomenon inside the chamber.
•	Input the three dimensional plasma force employing user defined functions (UDF).
•	The flame structure has been modified reducing the maximum flame temperature after employing the plasma actuators.
Simulation of the Driven-Cavity problem employing a staggered grid
•	Two dimensional incompressible Navier-Stokes equations have been solved on rectangular grid using a computer code.
•	The grid chosen was a staggered grid where pressure is located at the cell center and velocities are located at the cell edges.
•	A fractional step method has been implemented to solve the continuity and momentum equations, where each time step is split into fractional steps and only selected terms of the governing equations are included in each fractional step. 
•	The above code was used to solve the Driven-Cavity problem and grid refinement studies were carried out to obtain accurate solutions.
Process Optimization of Combined Cycle Power Plant Adopting Exergy Analysis
•	Developed a method for optimizing various output parameters in a combined cycle power plant by writing a Matlab code.
Effect of Surface Radiation on Conjugate Convection in a Discretely Heated Rectangular Cavity
•	Performed simulation studies on combined conduction-convection-radiation from a rectangular cavity equipped with traversable flush mounted discrete heat sources.
•	A computer code making use of finite difference method coupled with Gauss-Seidel solver has been written.
•	A grid sensitivity analysis was made resulting in the identification of an optimum grid system.
•	Local temperature distribution and maximum temperature have been thoroughly studied varying the input parameters.
Performance Testing and Optimization of coolant water temperature of a Four-Stroke Diesel Engine.
•	Calculated the engine performance parameters such as brake power, SFC, A/F Ratio and brake thermal efficiency and used the temperature at various locations to obtain the heat balance sheet and optimum coolant water temperature by use of SFC curves.
Estimation and experimental validation of insolation on inclined planes
•	Built setup for mounting a pyranometer with a minimal cost required for carrying out the experiment.
•	The insolation readings were read from a solar integrator which is connected to the pyranometer and these were noted at different angles of inclination of the pyranometer and at intervals of 30 minutes from 9 AM to 3 PM. 
•	The experimental results were used by a different group to compare with the theoretical values.
Design of a large scale Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine with cost optimization
•	Employed various technical concepts for designing a practical large scale wind turbine.
•	Cost modeling technique has been applied to obtain a tradeoff between the sizes of the wind turbine producing energy at a minimum cost.
•	This work has won the National 2nd Prize in an Industrial Design Contest conducted by G.E Energy at I.I.T Kharagpur.
Education
Toastmasters International
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Club Officer - Sergeant at Arms
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Bhavish Reddy
MBA Candidate at Kellogg School of Management
Milwaukee, WI
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Anoop Vasu
Lead Analytical Engineer at AAM - American Axle & Manufacturing
Detroit, MI
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Ramadityanand Bhogadi
MBA Candidate at Kellogg School of Management | Advanced Product Development at General Motors
Rochester, MI
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Saurabh Karanjkar
Senior Software Controls Engineer at AAM - American Axle & Manufacturing
Detroit Metropolitan Area
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Prithviraj Phalke
Kellogg MBA Candidate | Automotive Product Validation | Systems Testing & Development
Bloomington, IN
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Sharma Ramasubramania
Senior Industrial Engineer at AAM - American Axle & Manufacturing
Grand Rapids Metropolitan Area
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Premal Tailor
MBA Candidate at Kellogg School of Management | Founder @TailorMadeTech
Chicago, IL
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David Brasher
Manufacturing Engineer at AAM - American Axle & Manufacturing
Detroit Metropolitan Area
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Raveen Kumar Rajendran
Vehicle Dynamics & Controls Engineer at General Motors
United States
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Abhijyoth Reddy Vempati
Valvetrain Design & Release Engineer-Global Engine Engineering at Ford Motor Company
Canton, MI
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Nagaraju Adapa
Principle System Engineer at AAM
Pune
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Kyle Pepper
Manufacturing Engineer at AAM - American Axle & Manufacturing
Kalamazoo, MI
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Madhulika Dandina
Program Manager - Google Automotive Services at General Motors
Novi, MI
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Varun Anand
Product @ BCG | MBA @ Kellogg
Chicago, IL
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Jaclyn Shifrin
MBA Candidate at Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management | Senior Marketing Manager at TrueData
Greater Chicago Area
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Venkat Praveen Gambhir
Analytical Engineer 2 at Techtronic Industries - TTI
Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, South Carolina Area
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Shubham Ramesh Jain
MSME | CAE Engineer at BWI GROUP
San Francisco Bay Area
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Teja Kalavala
MBA Candidate at Kelley School of Business | Asst. Engineering Manager at TTi
Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, South Carolina Area
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Ramin Rezaei
Senior Aerodynamic Engineer, New Air Moving Product Development
Washington DC-Baltimore Area
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Alireza Kermani
Consultant,   Multiphysics | Device Modeling and Simulation
Greater Boston
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UFL Alumni
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Entry Level Jobs and Internships: College Recruiter
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Job Openings for OPT/CPT Students - North America
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Entry Level Engineers
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Gas Turbine Combustion Group
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Kelly Services
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