Nitish Anand
Board Member at EnergyVille
Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands
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Top SchoolNitish Anand is a researcher and board member with 9 years’ experience specializing in fluid dynamics and energy technology, currently serving on the SU2 Foundation board while leading thermal energy conversion and CFD-based optimization work at VITO and EnergyVille. He holds an MSc from TU Delft and completed a PhD focused on multidisciplinary design optimization of small-scale high-speed turbines, blending academic rigor with practical device design. His expertise spans high-fidelity CFD, adjoint-based geometric optimization, and reduced-order models, applied to ORC systems and supersonic turbine tooling developed during industry placements. Nitish combines deep numerical methods knowledge with hands-on code development and optimization workflows, and he actively discusses CFD-driven optimization approaches in open-source forums. Notably, his early work produced a generalized open-source nozzle and turbine design tool that improved stator performance by about 6%, reflecting a knack for turning theoretical methods into measurable gains. Based in Maastricht, he brings a cross-cultural engineering background from industry and academia across Europe, favoring curious, inquiry-led problem solving.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Mechanical Engineering at Siksha 'O' Anusandhan UniversityHigher Secondary Studies Computer Science, Higher Secondary Studies Computer Science at Chettinad VidyasharamMaster’s Degree Mechanical Engineering - Fluid Mechanics, Master’s Degree Mechanical Engineering - Fluid Mechanics at Delft University of Technology
Hindi, English, German
Github Skills (17)
simulation10
fluid10
python10
hpc10
physics10
fluid-dynamics10
multiphysics10
optimization10
constrained-optimization6
co-simulation3
testcase3
adapter2
accounting1
propagation1
bootstrap1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
NAnand-TUD/parablade
May 2020 - Aug 2022
A python based blade parametrization tool
Contributions:1 release, 3 reviews, 16 commits in 2 years 2 months
python
NAnand-TUD/open-moc
Sep 2020 - Apr 2021
Contributions:2 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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