Nikhil Krishna
Mechanical Engineering Student & Researcher
I am interested in turning ideas into working, testable designs. My work ranges from robotic mechanisms and experimental test rigs to manufacturing and thermal-fluid research.
Projects
Mechanical design
Tethered Mobile Robot
Lifting-arm design, torque calculations, motor testing, and fabrication for a tethered cleanup robot.
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Thermal-fluid simulation
Diamond Pin-Fin Cold Plate
ANSYS Fluent modeling of a liquid-cooled cold plate, with mesh refinement and comparison against published experimental results.
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Experimental fluid mechanics
Mangrove Wave Testing
Test-rig fabrication, calibrated video tracking, and analysis of wave-height reduction across barrier configurations.
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