Hakim Sarmad

Hakim Sarmad completed a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Kashmir in 2024. For his final year project, he focused on "Renewable Energy" under the guidance of Dr. Farooq Ah. Najar.

In addition to the academic work, Hakim has gained significant research experience as a Research Intern at NIT Srinagar in the Thermal and Energy Research Lab.. Here, he conducted experimentation on nanofluids, performed literature surveys, developed MATLAB standalone application capable of predicting thermal properties of nanofluids, and proposed novel compound for a research topic that had not yet been explored, under the mentorship of Professor Adnan Qayoum. In brief, Hakim's research was focussed on developing the tools to detect viscosity, and thermal conductivity, particularly for nanofluids.

Hakim also completed a project-cum-training internship in the Mechanical Engineering Department of SKIMS Soura, working on "Heat Load Evaluation of Library." This role provided him with hands-on experience in the maintenance of various systems, including boiler plant, chiller plant, manifold, sterilization of medical equipment, pump house, and sewage treatment plant under the guidance of Engineers.

Projects

Design and Analysis of Solar Chimney - Numerical and Experimental Approach

Currently writing research article based on numerical and experimental results.

Collector

Experimentally validated novel design of collector.

Turbine

Tested New design.

Development of MATLAB standalone application for predicting thermal properties of nanofluids

The development of application helped in predicting the thermal conductivity and viscosity of nanofluids. The validation of software was done on basis of results obtained from experimentaion of Copper-oxide based nanofluid and other published results done by researchers.

Evaluation of thermal properties of Copper-oxide based nanofluid

In this, an experimentation was performed on nanofluid for which copper-oxide nanoparticles were used in water as base-fluid. The variations of thermal properties for different concentations of nanoparticles in the base-fluid was recorded. The significant change in the heat transfer characteristics was reflected.

Coronal rain on vB 10
Experiment-1

Design and Development of frame for Agri-spraying vehicle

Designed CAD based model for vehicle using SOLIDWORKS and also did structural analysis using the same software.

Interests

  1. Compressible flow
  2. Heat Transfer
  3. Fluid Machinery
  4. Renewable Energy
  5. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
  6. Experimental Fluid Dynamics
  7. Programming
  8. Data Analysis

Open-Source tools

I have required knowledge related to OpenFoam, Python and Aurdino.