Summary
Venugopalan Raghavan is a research engineer with 11 years’ experience applying CFD and computational engineering to real-world consulting challenges, primarily in Singapore’s built-environment and healthcare sectors. He combines aerospace-founded rigor (B.Eng in Aerospace, graduate work at MIT and NUS) with practical tools development—creating Python-based OpenFOAM case generators, post-processing scripts, and wind-driven rain simulation capabilities. As a senior CFD consultant he has translated simulations into actionable design optimizations for major projects like hospitals and residential complexes, and teaches CFD to industry professionals. His background spans both theoretical research (banded matrix inverses) and hands-on multidisciplinary consulting (fire & smoke, thermal, civil), making him adept at bridging mathematical modeling and deployable engineering solutions.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
B.Eng, Aerospace Engineering, B.Eng, Aerospace Engineering at Nanyang Technological University
Delft University of Technology
SM, Computational Engineering, SM, Computational Engineering at National University of Singapore
SBOA
SM, Computation for Design and Optimization, SM, Computation for Design and Optimization at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Tamil, Hindi, English