1. WORK HISTORY
2015/10 – FEA Application Engineer
Present Advance Scientific and Engineering Services (AdvanSES)
 Extensive experience in Tire analysis (Rolling resistance and
Thermal analysis) for CEAT’s project. In understanding the
complete requirements in all aspects of design, research,
analysis and timeline.
 Expertise in solid modelling of various parts for automotive,
aerospace industries.
 Experience in meshing and assembly of various subsystems
of full vehicle for various analysis of crash and safety,
structures, fluid flow, fluid structure interaction (FSI), thermal
and closures.
NIKETU SHAH
FEA Application Engineer
2014/04 – Research Student
2015/07 ABB AG (Corporate Research Center, Germany)
 Parameter identification and thermal simulation of energy
harvester using finite element analysis.
 Hydro- and Thermodynamics of pipe flows with application in
model based sensing (Project- NITEMP).
2011/08 – Trainee Engineer
2012/02 ALPS Technologies PVT. LTD.
 Working in purchasing and production planning departments
to support our elevator manufacturing processes.
 Experienced with implementing systems of inventory
management avoiding over-stocking or wastage.
EDUCATION
2012 -2015 Master of Science – Computational Mechanics
University of Duisburg-Essen
 Numerical evaluation of the influence of lack of lateral forces
on the results from the test screws (in ABAQUS).
 Derivation and implementation of Mooney-Rivlin energy
function of the geometrically non-linear elastic boundary value
problem.
 Develop a python script and implement in ABAQUS to create
a shell model for a single spam girder using the combined
profiles.
 Stress analysis of domain using von-Mises criterion under
different boundary and loading conditions.
 Flow simulation of a supersonic flow over a double circular arc
airfoil and double wedge airfoil using Star CCM+.
 Simulation of the flow through a pipe with an obstacle for two
different turbulence models with ANSYS Fluent.
 Parameterized simulation model for strain and stress
calculation of squirrel cage rotors using non-linear material
properties (using Ansys).
2007 - 2011 Bachelor of Technology – Mechatronics Engineering
Ganpat University
 Hydraulics and Pneumatics Control, Kinematics, Control
Theory, Artificial intelligence, Robotics, Design of Machine,
Strength of Material
AHMEDABAD, GUJARAT,
INDIA
+918980004737
Shah_niketu@yahoo.com
CAE Tools
ABAQUS, ANSYS, STAR
CCM+, OpenFoam
Programming and
Designing Software
Matlab-Simulink, Python,
FORTRAN, MAPLE,
FEAP, C++, CATIA-V5,
Pro-E, AutoCAD
Language Proficiency
Gujarati (Mother tongue)
Hindi (Fluent)
English (Business Fluent)
German (Intermediate)
References
Dr. Joerg Gebhardt
Joerg.gebhardt@de.abb.c
om
Dr. Paresh Karia
paresh.karia@otis.com