Vishal Indivar Kandala

I am a Ph.D. Student at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University working under the guidance of Dr. Iman Borazjani

My current research involves developing and deploying Massively parallelized Computational Fluid Dynamics programs that are used to study Fluid Structure Interactions. As the name suggests, Fluid Structure interactions are phenomena which involve generally viscoelastic materials that interact with fluids which cause variation in physical properties of both the fluid and the immersed body itself.

This is especially relevant in developing an understanding of cardiac haemodynamics as well as structural cardiovascular disease(SCD). SCDs such as myochardial infarction along with thrombosis and aneurysms need to be better understood to develop modern Protocols and tools to battle the swelling tide of heart disease fatalities globally. I have previously worked on computational chemical kinetics models for turbulent combustion and have a variety of domains that I would like to explore. These include, but are not limited to:

• High Performance Computing (for scientific applications).
• Numerical Methods.
• Turbulence Modelling.
• Scientific Machine Learning (Physics Informed Learning).
• Higher Order methods of solving Hyperbolic Partial Differential Equations.