Advance humanity toward

3.0 on the Kardashev scale

My best friend and I were talking about a video we had seen on black holes and wormholes — how black holes pull everything toward them, how strange wormholes are supposed to be, and how some theories suggest they could connect distant places, or perhaps something even stranger.

At some point, the conversation became simple:

We genuinely decided that someday we would try to go on a mission to a black hole.

I went home that day and started reading more.

One question became another. Black holes led to space. Space led to rockets. Rockets led to physics, engineering and eventually the much larger question of what humanity could become.

From there, my curiosity kept expanding.

I started reading about people like Einstein, Stephen Hawking, Nikola Tesla and Michio Kaku. I became interested in biographies, philosophy, science fiction, and people like Steve Jobs who approached building in completely different ways.

Slowly, the dream stopped being only about rockets.

I began thinking about interstellar spacecraft, advanced propulsion, Dyson spheres, artificial intelligence, energy, robotics and technologies that today still sound like science fiction.

Eventually I discovered the idea of civilization scales and Type III civilizations.

That gave a name to something I had already been imagining for years.

But I don’t think difficulty is a good enough reason not to move toward them.

So I’m trying to build my life in that direction — learning across fields, building things, starting companies, becoming a better engineer, and working on technologies that could move humanity even a little closer to that future.

I still want to see how far we can go.

Led my college model rocketry team and worked on the design, development, and launch of our first rocket. We successfully completed the launch, but the team later dissolved and the project was discontinued.

Designed and 3D-printed a rocket nose cone and wing test article, added pressure tap points, and tested them in a wind tunnel to study aerodynamic behavior and measure quantities such as pressure distribution, drag, and aerodynamic forces.

Ongoing exploration into how a scramjet inlet could move beyond fixed geometry and adapt its shape for different operating conditions. The goal is to understand where variable geometry could improve inlet performance and how the idea might eventually be used in future high-speed propulsion systems.

Designed and studied a small reaction control system using a gaseous-nitrogen tank and four cold-gas thrusters. The project included propulsion testing, CFD and FEA simulations, PID-based attitude-control logic, and a 6-DOF dynamics study.

The work reached the simulation and limited testing stage, but was not developed into a fully validated flight-ready system.

Worked on multiple aerodynamic and compressible-flow CFD cases including the ONERA M6 wing, RAE2822 supercritical airfoil, converging-diverging nozzle, grid fins, and other rocket and wing configurations.

Used ANSYS Fluent, Pointwise, SU2, Gmsh, OpenFOAM, and ParaView to study meshing, shocks, flow behavior, aerodynamic forces, pressure distribution, solver workflows, numerical methods, and some underlying mathematical solutions.

From my internship report: CSIR NAL, Bangalore

Three months in the Computational & Theoretical Fluid Dynamics (CTFD) Division at CSIR National Aerospace Laboratories (18 Aug to 18 Nov 2025), working through meshing, SU2 simulation, ParaView post-processing and validation against experimental data.

NACA 0012 airfoil. Structured C-mesh and O-mesh with a boundary-layer extrusion in Pointwise and GMSH, inviscid Euler simulations in SU2 at several angles of attack, and Cp distributions and contours in ParaView.

RAE2822 supercritical airfoil. RANS with the Spalart–Allmaras model at about Mach 0.729 and 2.31° angle of attack. The shock location matched the experiment closely, with minor differences in pressure recovery near the trailing edge.

ONERA M6 wing. A 3D unstructured mesh refined around mid-span, run at about Mach 0.8395 and 3.06° angle of attack. Cp was compared with wind-tunnel data at y/b = 0.20, 0.44, 0.65, 0.80, 0.90 and 0.95, and the higher tip suction peak and the shock strengthening along the span were captured, with reasonable agreement.

Eglin wing-store separation. Mesh built in Pointwise, store translation and rotation scripted with rotation matrices from experimental positions (6-DOF), simulated in SU2, with forces, moments, trajectories and flow features post-processed in ParaView, plus mesh-independence and convergence checks.

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Built a CFD-based store-separation study for a missile/store released from an aircraft.

Created and refined the mesh in Pointwise, configured flow and motion conditions in SU2, advanced the store through multiple time steps using scripting, and studied 6-DOF behavior including pitch, roll, yaw, translation, orientation, aerodynamic forces and moments.

The work involved rotation matrices, Newtonian mechanics, rigid-body equations, and post-processing of the separation trajectory.

Built an open-source workflow toolkit for SU2 to make CFD case setup and execution easier and more repeatable.

The project focuses on reducing repetitive setup work, organizing simulation cases cleanly, and improving workflows around running and managing SU2-based CFD studies.

Building an AI-native, solver-independent engineering platform aimed at making CFD, FEA, thermal, and other CAE workflows easier to create, execute, debug, and understand.

The system is being designed around AI agents that can work with tools such as OpenFOAM, SU2, Gmsh, and ParaView while keeping the engineer in control of the underlying physics and workflow.

Built an AI-assisted application for tracking product expiry dates and helping users identify what is approaching expiration before it is forgotten or wasted.

Completed introductory study and certification work in quantum computing to understand its fundamental concepts, computational model, and potential applications.