Dr. Krutika Appaswamy is a Senior Engineer at Veryst Engineering. She is an expert in computational fluid dynamics, heat transfer, and multiphase modeling, with a concentration in granular flow systems and multiphase heat exchangers. Dr. Appaswamy has experience modeling fluidized beds, chemically reacting flows, and thermal management of large-scale heat exchange systems. She applies her deep expertise in multiphysics and multiphase flow modeling to advise clients on solving engineering problems in renewable energy, geoscience, and combustion.
Prior to joining Veryst, Dr. Appaswamy was a Postdoctoral Research Assisstant at Purdue University, working on using high fidelity particle-based models to study wave interactions with sea-ice. Her graduate work involved collaboration with the National Lab of the Rockies on modeling fluidized bed heat exchangers for thermal energy storage and concentrated solar power applications.
Pronouns: She/Her
Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, 2025
M.S., Aeronautics and Astronautics Engineering, Purdue University, 2021
B.Tech., Aerospace Engineering, Jain University, 2019
“Continuum correlations from CFD–DEM modeling of conduction heat transfer in granular flows,” International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 267, 2026 (with C. Punchi Wedikkara, Z. Ma, A. Morris)
” Two-Fluid and Discrete Element Modeling of a Parallel Plate Fluidized Bed Heat Exchanger for Concentrating Solar Power,” Journal of Solar Energy Engineering, Vol. 146, Issue 5, 2024 (with J. Schirck, C. Punchi Wedikkara, A. Morris, Z. Ma)
“Multiphase Modeling in a Parallel Plate Fluidized Bed Receiver for Concentrating Solar Power,” Proceedings of the ASME 2023 17th International Conference on Energy Sustainability, Washington, DC, 2023 (with J. Schirck, C. Punchi Wedikkara, A. Morris, Z. Ma)
“Inhomogeneous temperature in high temperature fluidized beds,” Powder Technology, Vol. 434, 2024 (with J. Schirck, A. Morris, Z. Ma)
“Homogeneous cooling of a dilute polydisperse granular gas,” Granular Matter, Vol. 24, 2022 (with A. Hong, A. Morris)
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