Education

• DPhil, Numerical Analysis, University of Oxford (2004 - 2014)
• Dual Degree (BTech/MTech), Aerospace Engineering, IIT-Bombay (1997 - 2002)

Course Offered

• Atmospheric Flight Mechanics
• Flight Dynamics
• Multi-disciplinary Optimisation

Experience

• Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Trivamdrum (June-2017 - Present)
• Visiting Faculty, Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Trivamdrum (March-2016 - June-2017)
• Associate Professor, Aerospace Engineering, ADCET, Ashta (August, 2015 - March, 2016)
• Research Assistant, Centre for Systems Design and Engineering (CASDE), IIT-Bombay (July, 2003 - July, 2004)
• Research Associate, Intellectual Property, Evalueserve Pvt. Ltd. (June, 2002 - June, 2003)

Research Work / Area

• DPhil work involved development of an Adjoint Solver for a commercial CFD solver.
• Worked on mixed fidelity optimisation of the exit duct of an aircraft for minimum distortion.
• MTech thesis involved development of a framework for parallel execution of CFD solvers on distributed memory architectures using MPI.

Organised a 3-day workshop on Multi-disciplinary optimisation along with Dr. Pankaj Priyadarshi (VSSC). More information can be found here.

https://devendra-ghate.github.io/domdo/

Funded Project

Co-investigator along with Prof. Satheesh K of the IIST-ISRO project titled "Simulation of non equilibrium
flows in shock tunnel nozzles"

Area of Interest

I am primarily interested in computations. I have worked in the areas of Computational Fluid Dynamics, automatic differentiation, gradient optimisation and multi-disciplinary design optimisation (MDO).

Publications

• M.B. Giles, D. Ghate and M. C. Duta. Using automatic differentiation for adjoint CFD code development
  Computational Fluid Dynamics Journal, 16(4):434-443, 2008.
• D. Ghate and M.B. Giles. Inexpensive Monte Carlo uncertainty analysis, pages 203-210.
  Tata McGraw-Hill, New Delhi, 2006.
• D. Ghate and M.B. Giles. Efficient Hessian calculation using automatic differentiation.
  In 25th AIAA Applied Aerodynamic Conference, 2007.
• D. Ghate, Amitay Isaacs, K Sudhakar, P.M. Mujumdar and A.G. Marathe. 3D-duct design using variable
  fidelity method. In 10th AIAA/ISSMO Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimisation
  Conference, 2004.
• P.M. Mujumdar, K. Sudhakar, A.G. Marathe, A. Isaacs and D. Ghate. Aerodynamic design
  optimisation studies at CASDE. In Proceedings of the Symposium on Applied Aerodynamics and
  Design of Aerospace Vehicles, Bangalore, 15-16 December, 2003.

Awards

• EPSRC funding at the Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre, Oxford (Oct. 2004 - Dec. 2008)
• Clarendon Award at the University of Oxford (Oct. 2004 - Sept. 2007)
• Oversees Research Scholar ( ORS ) award by the UK Government (Oct. 2004 - Sept. 2007)
• President of India Silver Medal for academic excellence at IIT-Bombay (2002)
• Scholarship for MTech project from the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing ( CDAC ), Pune, India (Jan. 2001 - June 2002)
• Summer research fellowship from the Indian Academy of Sciences ( IAS ) (May 1999 - June 1999)
• National Talent Scholarship by the Government of India (750 students nationwide) (1996)