Vishal Indivar Kandala

242 Spence Street

Suite 201A

College Station, TX 77840

I’m a Ph.D. student in Mechanical Engineering working with Dr. Iman Borazjani in the Scientific Computing and Biofluids Lab. My research lies at the intersection of computational fluid dynamics (CFD), turbulence modeling, and high-performance computing.

I am currently developing PICurv, an open-source Euler–Lagrangian solver for scalar Filtered Density Function (FDF) transport within the curvilinear immersed boundary (CURVIB) framework. The solver integrates stochastic differential equation modeling, Eulerian–Lagrangian coupling, and scalable parallel computation, forming the foundation for extending to joint velocity–scalar FDF (VFDF) formulations.

My broader research agenda focuses on turbulence closure development: building structured frameworks to identify unclosed terms, extract data-informed correlations from DNS and experiments, and rigorously validate models within high-fidelity solvers. I emphasize modular software design, reproducibility, and computational scalability to ensure these methods function as extensible research tools rather than isolated prototypes.

Across combustion modeling, cardiovascular fluid–structure interaction, and physics-informed machine learning, my work has centered on developing physics-grounded computational frameworks that transfer across domains while remaining mathematically rigorous and computationally efficient.

Selected publications, software documentation, and my full CV are available through the links above.

news

Oct 15, 2025	Hosted a Mini Symposium at Society of Engineering Science Conference 2025 !!
May 29, 2025	Hosted a Mini Symposium at Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference 2025 !!
Nov 12, 2022	Recieved the American Society of Indian Engineers Scholarship.
Oct 20, 2022	Succesfully passed the Ph.D Qualifying Exam!
May 24, 2022	Poster presentation at Texas A&M Univeristy High Performance Computing Symposium !!
Mar 31, 2022	Acknowledged in a Nature Scientific Reports paper !!
Mar 25, 2022	Invited to be a judge at The Texas Science & Engineering Fair !!

selected publications

APS

A Parallel Particle-In-Cell (PIC) Solver on Curvilinear Grids for Turbulent Flow Simulation

V.I. Kandala, and I. Borazjani

2025

Accepted

Bib

@techreport{kandala2025pic,
  title = {A Parallel Particle-In-Cell (PIC) Solver on Curvilinear Grids for Turbulent Flow Simulation},
  author = {Kandala, V.I. and Borazjani, I.},
  booktitle = {78th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics},
  year = {2025},
  address = {Houston, TX},
  note = {Accepted},
}

APS

High Resolution Numerical Simulations of LVAD Outflow Graft Haemodynamics

V.I. Kandala, and I. Borazjani

In 76th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, 2023

Bib HTML

@inproceedings{kandala2023lvad,
  title = {High Resolution Numerical Simulations of LVAD Outflow Graft Haemodynamics},
  author = {Kandala, V.I. and Borazjani, I.},
  booktitle = {76th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics},
  year = {2023},
  address = {Washington, DC},
  url = {https://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/DFD23/Session/X14.8},
}

In Prep

In-silico-generated universal end-diastolic pressure-volume relationship for the right ventricle

V. Naeini, V. Kandala, T. Mukherjee, and 4 more authors

2024

In preparation for Nature Scientific Reports

Bib

@unpublished{naeini2024universal,
  title = {In-silico-generated universal end-diastolic pressure-volume relationship for the right ventricle},
  author = {Naeini, V. and Kandala, V. and Mukherjee, T. and Mehdi, R.R. and Borazjani, I. and Choudhary, G. and Avazmohammadi, R.},
  year = {2024},
  note = {In preparation for Nature Scientific Reports},
}