Contact

Aravind Balan, M.Sc.
Aachen Institute for Advanced Study in Computational Engineering Science (AICES)
RWTH Aachen University
Schinkelstr. 2
52056 Aachen
Germany

Phone: +49(0)241 80 99135
Fax: +49(0)241 80 99135
Email: balan@aices.rwth-aachen.de

Education

since 01/2011

Doctoral Candidate at Aachen Institute for Advanced Study in Computational Engineering Science (AICES), RWTH Aachen, Germany

2009-2010	Master of Science in Simulation Sciences at German Research School for Simulation Sciences (GRS), RWTH Aachen, Germany

2003-2007	Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, India

Professional Career

10/2008 - 03/2009

Research assistant at Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore, India

03/2008-08/2008	Research assistant at Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Rouen (INSA de Rouen), France

05/2006-07/2006

Internship at Research and Development centre, TVS Motors, Hosur, India

Research Interests

High-order numerical methods like Spectral Difference, Discontinuous Galerkin for solving conservation laws in the context of Aerodynamic flow simulations.

Journal Publications

A Stable High-Order Spectral Difference Method for Hyperbolic Conservation Laws on Triangular Elements [PDF]
Aravind Balan, Georg May and Joachim Schöberl, Journal of Computational Physics (2011), doi:10.1016/j.jcp.2011.11.041

Conferences

A Hybridized DG / Mixed Method for Nonlinear Convection-Diffusion Problems [Presentation]
Aravind Balan, Michael Woopen,  Jochen Schütz and Georg May, 10th World Congress on Computational Mechanics, Sao Paulo, Brazil, July 2012

Time Relaxation Methods for High-Order Discretization of Compressible Flow Problems
Georg May, Francesca Iacono and Aravind Balan, AIP conference proceedings. 1389, 903-906 (2011), [doi:10.1063/1.3636881.]

A Stable Spectral Difference Method for Triangles [PDF][Presentation]
Aravind Balan, Georg May and Joachim Schoberl, AIAA paper number 2011-47, 49th American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Orlando, Florida, January 2011

Research Reports and Talks

Implementation and Validation of a New Spectral Difference Method for Hyperbolic Conservation Laws Using Raviart-Thomas Elements
M.Sc. Thesis, RWTH Aachen, December 2010 [PDF]

On the Use of High-Order Numerical Methods for DNS and LES of Isotropic Turbulence
Research report, INSA de Rouen, France, August 2008 [PDF]

Numerical Simulation of Plane Jets in the Transitional Regime
Bachelor Thesis, IIT Madras, India, April 2007

Turbulence Modeling
Presentation, 5th Indo-German winter academy, Digha, India, December 2006