Saikat Mukherjee MS in USA Aspirants

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Name: Saikat Mukherjee
College: F.E.T, Jadavpur University
Name of University and State/Country : Jadavpur University, West Bengal, India
Branch: Mechanical Engineering
Field of Interest: Fluid Mechanics( CFD, Fluid Mixing and Transition to Turbulence)
Degree Goal (MS/PhD): PhD
GPA/Percentage (Do not Convert to US Scale): 8.335
Topper's Percentage (or GPA): 9.36
Your rank in your class: Within top 30 out of 108 students.
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GRE: 320 [ 157(verbal) + 163(quant)] AWA: Score not yet received, expecting a 3+ score.
Toefl: yet to take.
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Internships: (If applicable)
1) (For Academic) May-July 2014, IIT Kharagpur, Adviser Dr. Manab Kumar Das. Computed
the nature of Isotherms and Heat lines in 2D and 3D Transient simulation in a Lid Driven Cavity.
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Submitted or Accepted Publications:

Journal:

Open access Journal available online at www.scientific.net

1) Name of Paper Heatline based thermal behavior during cooling of a hot moving steel plate
using single jet./Journal Name Trans Tech Publication, Switzerland. /Impact Factor n.a.

I am the 2nd Author of the paper.

Conference:

1) 1st Author of Heatline based thermal behavior during cooling of a hot moving steel plate
using multiple jet
Conference : International Conference on Advancement in Manufacturing and Materials
Engineering(ICAMME 2014), NIT Surathkal.

The proceedings were supposedly going to be published as an open access journal under
Elsevier. Though I havent received any mail yet.

2) 2nd Author of Heatline based thermal behavior during cooling of a hot moving steel plate
using multiple jet
Conference: International Mechanical Engineering Congress(IMEC,2014), NIT Trichy.

3) 3rd Author of Correlation of Equivalence Ratio with Spectrometric Analysis for Premixed
Combustion(paper no - 243) to be presented at FMFP-2014, IIT Kanpur.

Aggregate Publication Statistics:

Journal: 1(open access)

Conference: 3
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Projects: (If applicable)
1) Computation of the nature of Heatline and Isotherm distribution during cooling of a hot rolled
steel slab under multiple jet under Dr. Achintya Mukhopadhyay and Dr. Nilkanta Barman of our
department during 3rd year.

2) Experimental project to determine the Lean Blow Out point in premixed Gas Turbine
combustion using spectrometric analysis under Dr. Achintya Mukhopadhyay and Dr. Swarnendu
Sen of our department during 3rd year.

3) Developed a code for the 2D Transient & 3D Transient simulation of Lid Driven Cavity flow
under Dr.Manab Kumar Das at Mechanical Engineering Department, Indian Institute of
Technology, Kharagpur.(3rd year, summer).

4) Developing a code for the computation of Slip flow in Lid Driven Cavity under Dr. Himadri
Chattopadhyay of our department as a final year project.(ongoing).

5) Modeling interface dynamics during solidification under Dr. Himadri
Chattopadhyay.(ongoing).

6) Will be continuing my work in IIT Kharagpur with Dr. Manab Kumar Das in the winter.
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Recommendations:
1) Dr. Manab Kumar Das, Mechanical Engineering Department, IIT Kharagpur, Strong.
2) Dr. Achintya Mukhopadhyay, Mechanical Engineering Department, Jadavpur University,
Strong.
3) Dr. Himadri Chattopadhyay, 4th year project guide, Mechanical Engineering Department,
Jadavpur University, Strong.
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Tentative Universities:
The ones I have sent my GRE score to :
1) Virginia Tech
2) University of Florida.
3) University of Illinois, Chicago.
4) IOWA State.
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Of these universities, I found S. Balachandran of U.Florida and Dr. Mark Stremler of Vtech
having research interests clearly aligned with my own. I have already pre-apped Prof. Mark
Stremler and he said he was interested in the possibility of me joining his research group for fall
2015.

I would really like you people to suggest me a few more universities which I can realistically aim
and also schools having good fluid mechanics groups where I can apply. Also as I messed up my
quants section, should I consider a GRE retake?

Thank you for evaluating my profile!