Curriculum vitae
Shanthosh K V
I design liquid rocket propulsion hardware from first principles, then build the tools that check my own numbers before a test stand does.
Pre-final-year student in liquid rocket propulsion, turbomachinery, and CFD. Builds first-principles design tools and hardware studies — turbopumps, injectors, regen cooling, nozzles — and checks them against published data, not just curve fits.
- 379/379Turbo Forge tests passing
- 10Injector element families
- 7Regen cooling margins / run
- 3rd yrAerospace Engineering
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Experience
Jul 2025 – Oct 2025
Research Intern — IIST Thiruvananthapuram
- ML model for species concentration in combustion flames using TDLAS.
- Parametric fuel–air mixing study with Planar Laser Mie Scattering (PLMS).
- Built a 4 cm × 1 mm laser-sheet setup with a Galilean beam expander; high-speed imaging and MATLAB post-processing.
- Quantified mixing via the unmixedness factor from injector scattering profiles.
Dec 2024 – Dec 2025
Liquid Rocket Engine Design Intern — BOCK SPACE
- Regen cooling and injector configuration for liquid rocket subsystems.
- CFD in ANSYS Fluent: nozzles, chambers, turbopump components.
- Engine sizing, cycle analysis, and turbomachinery design for thrust, efficiency, and structural reliability.
- Aerodynamic and thermal design of coaxial bi-swirl injectors.
Education
2023 – 2027
B.E. Aerospace Engineering — RV College of Engineering, Bengaluru
Aerodynamics, propulsion, computational simulation. Design work in rocket engine components, turbomachinery, and applied ML for diagnostics.
Selected work
- Two-stage centrifugal turbopump — RP-1 at 100 kg/s, 35,000 RPM, 175 bar rise; material trades and CFD.
- Turbo Forge — 16-tab turbopump prelim suite, NASA CEA / CoolProp / Cantera, 379 tests.
- Injector Forge — ten injector families, named correlations, DXF/PDF export.
- Regen cooling solver — 1D thermal-hydraulic-structural, 7 margins at 120 stations.
- rockmoc — method-of-characteristics nozzles, 43 validation cases.
Skills
Python, MATLAB · SolidWorks, CATIA, Fusion 360, ANSYS, HyperMesh, ParaView, STK · OpenFOAM, CFD, propulsion design · LLMs, RAG, Ollama