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Paritosh Mokhasi

 
 

Ph.D.

Illinois Institute of Technology

10 W. 32nd Street

Engineering 1 Building, Room #243

Chicago, IL 60616

 

Phone: 312.375.6010

Fax: 312.567.7230

Email: mokhpar@iit.edu

 

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Education

  • Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois
    Ph.D. Candidate, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, May 2009
    GPA: 4.00
    Dissertation: "Strategies for the real-time prediction of velocity fields"

  • M.S., Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, May 2004
    GPA: 3.65
    Thesis: "Optimal solutions to the direct and inverse problems of contaminant dispersion"

  • S.D.M. College of Engineering and Technology, Karnataka, India
    B.E., Mechanical Engineering, December 2000
    GPA : 3.80
    Thesis: "Design and fabrication of chuck on lathe for the mass production of steel rings"

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Research Interests

 

  • Fluid dynamics

  • Turbulence

  • Low dimensional models

  • Nonlinear dynamical modeling

  • Data assimilation

  • Lattice-Boltzmann methods

  • Numerical simulations

  • Radial basis functions

Current Research

  • Development of low-dimensional models for predicting turbulent flows in complex geometries

  • Prediction of flow-fields based on velocity sensor measurements

  • Study of periodic coherent structures using episodic POD

Honors and Awards

  • IIT Sigma-Xi Award for Excellence in Research, Illinois Institute of Technology, 2008-2009

  • First place, IIT Research Day Poster Competition, Graduate Division, Illinois Institute of Technology, 2009

  • Second place, Research Poster Competition, Ph.D. Category, MMAE Department, IIT, 2009

  • First rank for the third and final year of undergraduate studies, S.D.M. College of Engineering and Technology, India.

  • Best project in mechanical department, S.D.M. College of Engineering and Technology, India, 2000.

Scientific and Professional Society Memberships

  • AIAA student member

  • American Physical Society student member

Publications

  • Monnier, B., Neiswander, B., Mokhasi, P., and Wark, C., Stereoscopic PIV Measurements in an Urban-type boundary layer: Insight on flow regimes and angle of attack effect, Boundary Layer Meteorology. Under review.

  • Mokhasi, P., and Rempfer, D., Nonlinear system identification using radial basis functions, International, Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids. Accepted for publication.

  • Spasov, M., Rempfer, D., and Mokhasi, P., Simulation of a turbulent channel flow with an entropic lattice Boltzmann method, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/°d.1946.

  • Mokhasi, P., and Rempfer, D., Predictive flow field estimation, Physica-D: Journal of Nonlinear Sciences, Vol. 238, Issue 3, pp. 290-308, Feb. 2009.

  • Mokhasi, P., and Rempfer, D., Sequential estimation of velocity fields using episodic proper orthogonal decomposition, Physica D: Journal of Nonlinear Sciences, Vol. 237, pp. 3197-3213, 2008.

  • Mokhasi, P., and Rempfer, D., Optimized sensor placement for urban flow measurements, Physics of Fluids, Vol. 16, Issue 5, May 2004.

Presentations

  • "Radial basis function approach to modeling dynamical systems," APS-DFD conference presentation, Nov. 2008, San Antonio, Texas.

  • "Robust real-time solutions of velocity field from predictive estimation," APS-DFD conference presentation, Nov. 2007, Salt Lake City, Utah.

  • "Real time flow prediction using Kalman filters", FDRC presentation, March 2007, IIT, Chicago.

  • "Evolution of recurrent structures in minimal channel", APS-DFD conference presentation, Nov. 2006, Tampa Bay, Florida.

  • "Radial basis functions for modeling nonlinear dynamical systems", Dept. of Applied Mathematics, Oct. 2007, IIT, Chicago.

  • "Predictive flow field estimation for atmospheric dispersion problems", APS-DFD conference presentation, Nov. 2005, Chicago, Illinois.

  • "Lattice Boltzmann model for fluid flow simulation", FDRC presentation, 2005, IIT, Chicago.

  • "Optimized flow solutions for contaminant dispersion problems", CAMP conference presentation, 2005, George Mason University, Virginia, Washington D.C.

  • "Overview of MM5 meteorological model", FDRC presentation, 2004, IIT, Chicago.

  • "Optimal solutions to the direct and inverse problems of contaminant dispersion", APS-DFD conference presentation, Nov. 2004, Seattle, Washington.

  • "Optimized sensor placement for urban flow measurements", APS-DFD conference presentation, Nov. 2003, New York.

  • "The method of Proper Orthogonal Decomposition", FDRC presentation, 2003, IIT, Chicago.

 
     

 

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