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Curriculum
Vitae
I. Education
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Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, University of South
Carolina, Columbia, SC (2006).
(Advisor: John W. Van Zee)
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B.Tech., Chemical & Electrochemical Engineering, Central Electrochemical Research
Institute, Karaikudi, India (1998).
II. Professional
Employment
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02/2005 - present: Research Specialist, School of
Public Health, USC, Computational modeling and simulation of
occupational exposure to contaminants using fluid dynamic models,
Performance evaluation of Fuel Cells.
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08/1998 – 12/2006: Research and Teaching
Assistant, Dept. Chemical Engineering, USC, Modeling of
electrochemical power sources – Semi-fuel cells, Fuel cells and
Batteries and Computational Fluid dynamics (CFD); Taught a graduate
class the usage of CFD software (FLUENT 6) in solving problems in
Electrochemistry and fuel cells
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11/1997 – 12/1997: Intern, Indian Institute of
Chemical Technology, Hyderabad, India, Reactive distillation of
Methyl Ethyl Ketone
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05/1996 – 07/1996: Intern, India Cements,
Tirunelveli, India, Cement Kiln operation
III. Honors
& Awards
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Gold Medal, National Computer Awareness Test
(1990)
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All India Rank 93, Graduate Aptitude Test in
Engineering (1998)
IV.
Publications
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Venkatraman M. and Van Zee, J. W., “A
Model for the Silver-Zinc Battery During High Rates of Discharge”,
J. Power Sources, in press.
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Venkatraman M. and Van Zee, J W., “Effect
of Net Geometry on the Limiting Current Distribution in a Parallel
Plate Electrochemical Reactor”, J. Applied Electrochemistry,
in press.
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Feigley C., Schnaufer N., Do T., Lee E.,
Venkatraman M., Khan J., and Haggerty R.. “Estimating Emission
Factors in a Capacitor Factory Using a Modified Two-Zone Model”,
Paper #150, American Industrial Hygiene Conference, Chicago, IL, May
17, 2006.
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Venkatraman M., Shimpalee S. and Van Zee,
J. W., “Effect of Net Geometry on the Nusselt Number Distribution
for Channel Flow”, Numerical Heat Transfer - Part A: Applications,
submitted.
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Venkatraman M. and Van Zee, J W., “MAPFOR
– A macro for translating specific MAPLE commands to FORTRAN”, to be
submitted to Computers and Chemical Engineering.
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Venkatraman M. and Van Zee, J W., “A two
dimensional ADI-Newman method to solve coupled DAE systems for a
specific class of rectangular geometries”, to be submitted to
Computers and Chemical Engineering.
V. Inventions/Copyright Disclosures
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Automated equation generation and solution program for
modeling exposure to contaminants in buildings with simulation of air flow
(2005)
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Automated grid generation program with a user-friendly GUI
for PEM Fuel Cells Simulation using STAR-CD v3.15. (2002)
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Automated grid generation program with a user-friendly GUI
for PEM Fuel Cells Simulation using GAMBIT v2.0. (2001)
(Note: All the above three are to be commercialized soon) |
