AMBADY SURESH
Tucson,USA
Summary
Extensive experience in computational physics including avionics cooling, turbo-machinery, hypersonic flows, rotorcraft simulations, and high order algorithms.
Overview
38
38
years of professional experience
Work History
Principal Engineer
Raytheon Missiles & Defense
03.2024 - Current
- Thermal management of missiles and missile components
- Perform thermal tests of missile components in lab and thermal chambers
- Develop analysis models of printed circuit boards and cards
Senior Staff Engineer/Aeronautical Engineering Manager, Thermal Management
Lockheed Martin
08.2017 - 03.2024
- Leading a team of engineers engaged in internal fluid mechanics and heat transfer analyses on all Sikorsky aircraft
- Expertise in avionics cooling analysis, engine installation, fire suppression systems, engine fuel systems, inlet and exhaust systems, environmental control systems and exhaust gas re-ingestion analysis
- Developed full aircraft avionics cooling model for Future Vertical Lift (FVL) programs
- Developing new innovative solutions to avionics cooling on new platforms
- Performed trade studies of aircraft Environmental Control Systems (ECS) on new platforms with a view to minimizing weight, onboard cooling power and footprint
Consultant
C&P Technologies
08.2015 - 08.2021
- Acted as consultant on hypersonics
- Phase1 &2 work on Innovative SAR and GMTI for hypersonic vehicles included: (a) calculated flow field around2D axisymmetric shapes using FUN3D with a view to estimate radar distortion
- Wrote several SBIR proposals on hypersonic wakes, developing high fidelity algorithms for sonar
Lead Engineer
GE Global Research
08.2007 - 05.2017
- Led the design of end wall contours of high pressure turbine blades
- Optimized propeller design to reduce noise and increase efficiency using proplets, and sweep and lean functions.
- Served as the computational lead for a pulse detonation hybrid engine under a DARPA classified project
Research Engineer
NASA Glenn Research Center
06.1987 - 08.2007
- Full engine simulation of the GE90, ncluding the LPC, HPC, LPT, HPT and combustor
- Developed higher order monotonicity preserving schemes for the Euler equations
- Applied wavelet compression algorithms to speed up CFD codes
Education
Ph.D. - Point Vortex Interactions
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ01.1985
B.S. and M.S. - Aero and Astronautics, Minor: Physics
University of Washington
Seattle, WA01.1980
Skills
- Lockheed Martin, 2019 – 2021
- Taught an 8 week introductory, python based course in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) for new engineers The course was focused on fundamentals as opposed to applications
- Bridgeport Multicultural Magnet School 2017 – 2018
- Taught an after school STEM School for middle school children
- Mathcounts Coach
- Niskayuna , NY 2009 – 2013
- Coached elementary and middle school students for the mathcounts competition
Publications
- “Thermal Sort: A Simple Optimization Problem in Avionics Cooling,” A. Suresh, AIAA Scitech Conference2022, AIAA2022-1912, San Diego, California, (2022).
- “A Simple Model of Rotor Upwash in Ground Effect,” A. Suresh, AIAA2020-1999, AIAA Scitech Conference2020, Orlando, Florida (2020).
- “Stability of the Phase Lag Boundary Condition in Turbomachinery Simulations,” A. Suresh, A. Rangwalla, AIAA2012 Joint Propulsion Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, July2012.
- “Turbine Efficiency for Unsteady, Periodic Flows,” A. Suresh, D. Hofer, and V. Tangirala, J. Turbomachinery,134,021024 (2012).
- “Interaction of a Shock with a Density Disturbance via Shock Fitting,” A. Suresh, J. Comp. Phys., Vol.206, p.6-15, (2005).
- “Improving Air-Breathing Engine Design using Multidisciplinary Numerical Simulation,” A. Suresh and M. E. M. Stewart,27th. JANNAF Conference, December2003.
- “Multidisciplinary Analysis of a Hypersonic Engine,” A. Suresh, M. E. M. Stewart, NASA Glenn research center, NASA/TM—2003-211896, (2002).
- “Positivity Preserving Schemes in Multi-dimensions,” A. Suresh, SIAM J. Sci. Comput., Vol.22, No.4 (2000).
- “Accurate Monotonicity Preserving Schemes with Runge-Kutta Time Stepping,” A. Suresh & H. T. Huynh, J. Comp. Phys., Vol.136,83-99 (1997).
- “An Assessment of Spectral Nonoscillatory Schemes,” A. Suresh, J. Comp. Physics, Vol.14, No.2, (1994).
- “A Relativistic Cylindrical Vortex,” A. Suresh, Phys. Fluids, Phys. Fluids24,983–984 (1981)
Affiliations
- AIAA, SIAM
Timeline
Principal Engineer
Raytheon Missiles & Defense
03.2024 - Current
Senior Staff Engineer/Aeronautical Engineering Manager, Thermal Management
Lockheed Martin
08.2017 - 03.2024
Consultant
C&P Technologies
08.2015 - 08.2021
Lead Engineer
GE Global Research
08.2007 - 05.2017
Research Engineer
NASA Glenn Research Center
06.1987 - 08.2007
B.S. and M.S. - Aero and Astronautics, Minor: Physics
University of Washington
Ph.D. - Point Vortex Interactions
Princeton University
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