Introducing Dr.ir. Dhruv Mehta

My name is Dhruv Mehta; I was born and raised in India. I obtained a bachelor’s degree in biosciences and bioengineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. Thereafter, I enrolled on a master’s degree course in aerodynamics at Cranfield University, UK, specialising in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) through a thesis on hypersonic engines.

My doctoral research was funded by the Marie Curie Initial Training Network (MARE-WINT), through which I obtained a PhD in wind farm aerodynamics from the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft). This was followed by two post-doctoral research tenures at TU Delft. The first dealt with the numerical study of non-Newtonian fluids to assist with the design of sewer systems that can transport highly-concentrated domestic slurry with the aim of lowering the usage of domestic water. The second involved the CFD-based design of a hydraulic collector to obtain poly-metallic nodules (containing metals required in electronics and batteries) from the seabed at depths up to 6 km. The design has been validated experimentally at Deltares (Delft) and will be subject to sea-trials in 2022, as part of a project funded by the European Institute of Technology (Blue Harvesting).

I’ll join the department for water management on 15 April 2021 as an assistant professor in sanitary engineering. I intend to carry out research on the application of CFD to urban water systems, development of numerical methods for non-Newtonian and multi-phase flows and the simplification of high-fidelity CFD models for engineering applications.

Please feel free to contact me! My list of publications can be found here.