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Souma Chowdhury
Masters Candidate
Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering
Florida International University
10555 West Flagler St., EC 2710
Miami, Florida 33174
+1 (305) 348-6827 phone
+1 (305) 348-6007 FAX
schow003@fiu.edu
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Mr. Souma Chowdhury has worked as an Undergraduate Research Assistant under Dr. N. Chakraborti and Dr. S. Chakraborty on Optimization of Separation Efficiency of a Hydrocyclone, a joint project of the Mechanical Engineering Dept. and the Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Dept., IIT Kharagpur, India, funded by the Tata Iron and Steel Company, RnD Division, Jamshedpur. He is presently working as a Graduate Research Assistant on the Development and Application of Single- and Multi-Objective Optimization Algorithms at the Maidroc Lab, FIU, under Dr. G. S. Dulikravich. Through this research he has also gained experience in Computational Fluid Flow and Thermal Analysis of Engineering Systems.
Education:
- MS in Mechanical Engineering (pursuing), Florida International University, Miami 2008
- B-Tech in Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, 2007
Areas of Interest:
- Single/Multi-objective Optimization (with Constraint Handling)
- Evolutionary Optimization Algorithm Development
- Application of optimization techniques to engineering systems
- Artificial Dissipation Formulation for high fidelity Computational Aerodynamics models
Publications:
- “Predator-Prey Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization Algorithm: Performance and Improvements”, S. Chowdhury, R. J. Moral, G. S. Dulikravich, 7th ASMO-UK/ISSMO International Conference on Engineering Design Optimization, Bath, UK, Jul 2008.
- “Fluid Flow in Hydrocyclones Optimized through Multi-objective Genetic Algorithms”, S. Chakraborty, S. Chowdhury, N. Chakraborti, A. Shekhar, A. Singhal, R. Sripriya, Inverse Problems in Science & Engineering (in press 2008).
- “Development of CLTD Values for Buildings located in Kolkata, India”, K. Bansal, S. Chowdhury and M. R. Gopal, Applied Thermal Engineering, Vol. 28 No. 10, pp. 1127-1137, Jul 2008.
- “Influences of pressure gradients on freezing Poiseuille–Couette flows”, S. Basu, S. Chowdhury and S. Chakraborty, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Volume 50, Issues 21-22, pp. 4493-4498, Oct 2007.
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