Profile
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OrganizationPurdue University
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Employment StatusUniversity / College Graduate Student
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Biography
Venkattraman received his BS in Aerospace Engineering in 2007 from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India. He got his MS in Aeronautics & Astronautics, with a specialization in computational engineering from Purdue in 2009. His main research interests are in theoretical and computational nonequilibrium flows including plasma physics During his graduate school he has worked with his advisor Prof. Alina Alexeenko, on several problems in diverse applications such as MEMS, vacuum technology, and hypersonic flows. Venkattraman was also a summer student in 2010 at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) working on 3D plasma simulations for the National Ignition Facility (NIF)