Kavin Sundarnath. J

Kavin Sundarnath J has worked in various roles since 2014. In 2014, they were a Graduate Assistant at South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, where they fabricated a gas handling system designed to absorb radon particles in low radioactive background physics experiments and designed and fabricated vacuum seals for the gas handling system using PEEK. From 2016 to 2021, they were a Research Associate at New Mexico State University, where they modelled phase change material (PCM) based Thermal Energy Storage (TES) for residential and commercial buildings using COMSOL and designed and modelled a heat exchanger to enhance 'boundary layer shift' in laminar flows. In 2020, they were a Graduate Intern at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, where they optimized (techno-economic) pumped thermal energy storage systems (PTES) based on Joule Brayton cycle, sCO2 cycle and CSP integrated Rankine cycle using machine learning. Kavin is currently a Thermodynamics/Physics Simulation Engineer at PassiveLogic since 2022, where they are leading the prototype development of a novel thermo-magnetic energy conversion device with fluid control system that can generate electric power from low temperature thermal sources, designing and performing Multiphysics simulation of 2D and 3D thermo-magnetic energy conversion devices with different geometrical configurations and heat transfer parameters, and modeling zonal heat pump integrated building wall panels and identifying thermal losses.

Kavin Sundarnath J obtained their Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Mechanical Engineering from New Mexico State University between 2016 and 2020. Prior to that, they earned a Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering between 2010 and 2014.