Resume

Professional Experience

  • Jan 2017 - Current, Senior Software Engineer, Program Manager - Fluid Dynamics Framework Group, Siemens PLM, Lebanon, NH, US
  • Sep 2012 - Dec 2016, Development Engineer, CD-adapco, Lebanon, NH, US
  • Sep 2006 - Dec 2008, Development Engineer, Tetrahedrix Engineering Pvt. Ltd., Pune, India
  • Jun 2005 - Aug 2006, Applications Engineer, Fluent India Pvt. Ltd., Pune, India


Education

  • Jan 2009 - Aug 2012, PhD, Aerospace Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, US
  • July 2001 - May 2005, BTech (Hons), Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India


PhD Thesis

  • Quadrature-based moment methods: High-order realizable schemes and multi-physics applications (Advisors: Prof. Z. J. Wang and Prof. R. O. Fox)


Journal Papers

  • V. Vikas, Z. J. Wang, R. O. Fox, Realizable high-order finite-volume schemes for quadrature-based moment method applied to diffusion population balance equations, Journal of Computational Physics, Volume 249, 2013, 162–179
  • V. Vikas, C. D. Hauck, Z. J. Wang, R. O. Fox, Radiation transport modeling using extended quadrature method of moments, Journal of Computational Physics, Volume 246, Issue 1, 2013, 221-241
  • V. Vikas, C. Yuan, Z. J. Wang, R. O. Fox, Modeling of bubble-column flows with quadrature-based moment method, Chemical Engineering Science, Volume 66, Issue 14, 2011, 3058-3070
  • V. Vikas, Z. J. Wang, A. Passalacqua, R. O. Fox, Realizable high-order finite-volume schemes for quadrature-based moment method, Journal of Computational Physics, Volume 230, Issue 13, 2011, 5328-5352
  • T. K. Sengupta, V. Vikas, A. Johri, An improved method for calculating flow past flapping and hovering airfoils, Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics, Volume 19, Issue 6, 2005, 417-440


Conference Proceedings

  • V. Vikas, Z. J. Wang, A. Passalacqua, R. O. Fox, A fully coupled fluid-particle solver using quadrature-based moment method with higher-order realizable schemes on unstructured grids, 7th International Conference on Multiphase Flow (ICMF), Tampa, Florida, May 30th – June 4th, 2010
  • V. Vikas, Z. J. Wang, A. Passalacqua, R. O. Fox, Development of High-Order Realizable Finite-Volume Schemes for Quadrature-Based Moment Method, 48th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, AIAA, Orlando, Florida, January 4th – 8th, 2010
  • G. P. Muldowney, C. L. Elmufdi, R. Palaparthi, D. P. Tselepidakis, S. G. Natu, V. Vikas, Microscopy bases description of CMP pad microtexture and asperity scale modeling of slurry flow dynamics, 11th International Conference on Chemical Mechanical Polish (CMP) planarization, Feb 21-23, 2006, Fremont, California
  • V. Vikas and T. K. Sengupta, Computational study of flow over flapping and hovering airfoils using high order compact and filtering schemes, International Conference on Theoretical, Applied, Computational and Experimental Mechanics, Dec 28-30, 2004, Kharagpur, India