Distinguishability of some Dark Energy Models
Period : May 2013 – July 2013
Funding Institute : Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata
Project Supervisor: Prof. Debasish Majumdar
The work was mainly based on theoretical analysis of Barotropic fluid model and Quintessence model. The effectiveness of higher order derivatives in distinguishing the models was studied and it was found that second order derivative can separate the phantom from non-phantom region in w-w` plane.
Uranium Melting using Induction Heating
Period : May 2012 – July 2012
Funding Institute : IGCAR, Kalpakkam, Chennai
Project Supervisor: Shri. Sanjay Kumar Das
This project was done as a part of Practice School Program of BITS Pilani. I worked at Sodium Fuel Interaction Facility of IGCAR to study accidental scenarios that may occur during interaction of Sodium coolant and molten Uranium fuel inside FBTR core. We used Induction heating to melt Uranium pellet and the molten fuel was brought in contact with sodium coolant in the reaction chamber of SOFI facility. Based upon the experimental data, I designed a python based software to carry out computations of frequency and power requirement for specific geometries of Uranium pellets and presented some design improvements of the induction coil based on simulations.
