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Aranya Chauhan

San Jose,CA

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

Staff Thermal Engineer

Rondo Energy
01.2025 - Current
  • Transient reduced order modeling of Rondo's Thermal Energy Storage unit in Matlab with radiation, convection and conduction heat transfer mechanisms.
  • 3D CFD analysis of Rondo's brick unit in Solidworks to verify predictions of the reduced order model.

Senior Thermal Systems Integration Engineer

Tesla
02.2023 - 01.2025
  • Thermal modeling of V4 Supercharger's thermal cabinet in Matlab.
  • Coordinated with mechanical design, reliability and power electronics team to create the thermal requirements of V4 Supercharger system.
  • Thermal modeling of whole vapor-compression cycle in Matlab-Simulink and performed testing to validate models.
  • Pressure drop modeling of two-phase flow in refrigeration cycle in Matlab.
  • Thermal resistance-capacitance modeling of inverter/power electronics in Simulink.
  • Thermal testing/validation of power electronics cooling loop at system level.
  • Regularly perform thermal evaluation of OEMs and make go/no-go decisions.
  • Designed and built test setups for pumps, and component level pressure drop testing.

Thermal Engineer

Joby Aviation
06.2021 - 02.2023
  • Created an analytical pressure drop model of coolant network in Matlab for electric engine cooling.
  • Performed thermal testing and data analysis on the electric engine's cooling system of the aircraft.
  • Created a thermal network model at cell level and performed testing at cell level.
  • Performed thermal characterization testing on the battery module under various flying conditions and improved the accuracy of the analytical model at module level.

Graduate Research Assistant

Rochester Institute of Technology
01.2016 - 06.2021
  • Company Overview: Thermal Analysis and Microfluidics Lab
  • Designed and built a thermosiphon loop for high power density CPU cooling - US Patent
  • Thermosiphon loop achieved superior cooling performance compared to water and air coolers
  • Created a theoretical model in Matlab to predict the efficiency (HTC) of the system
  • Conducted pool boiling experiments on the test bench and validated the theoretical model
  • Developed innovative flow mechanism to dissipate 290 W on a 1cm sq
  • Plain surface - world record
  • Thermal Analysis and Microfluidics Lab

Thermal Engineering Intern

Loon (Alphabet)
06.2020 - 01.2021
  • Developed ANSYS Fluent model of the stratospheric balloon considering outer space radiations.
  • Improved the battery thermal model for stratospheric application using Flotherm software.
  • Built thermal models of advanced communication systems/server boards in Flotherm.
  • Coordinated battery module testing for stratospheric applications.

Education

Ph.D. - Thermal Engineering

Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester
07.2021

Master's of Science (MS) - Mechanical Engineering

Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester, NY
05.2017

Bachelor's of Technology - Mechanical Engineering

Vellore Institute of Technology, India
India
05.2015

Skills

  • Theoretical modeling
  • Thermal simulations
  • Two phase heat transfer
  • Refrigeration cycle
  • Solidworks, Ansys Fluent and FloTherm
  • Matlab and Simulink
  • Test setup building
  • Validation testing
  • Data acquisition

Timeline

Staff Thermal Engineer

Rondo Energy
01.2025 - Current

Senior Thermal Systems Integration Engineer

Tesla
02.2023 - 01.2025

Thermal Engineer

Joby Aviation
06.2021 - 02.2023

Thermal Engineering Intern

Loon (Alphabet)
06.2020 - 01.2021

Graduate Research Assistant

Rochester Institute of Technology
01.2016 - 06.2021

Ph.D. - Thermal Engineering

Rochester Institute of Technology

Master's of Science (MS) - Mechanical Engineering

Rochester Institute of Technology

Bachelor's of Technology - Mechanical Engineering

Vellore Institute of Technology, India

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