Harshit Tiwari
FARE Fellow @ IIT Kanpur
103E, Old Core Labs
Academic area, IIT Kanpur
Kanpur 208016, U.P., India
I am a Fellowship for Academic and Research Excellence (FARE) Fellow in the Department of Physics at IIT Kanpur, where I also completed my Ph.D. My doctoral research, jointly supervised by Prof. Mahendra K. Verma and Prof. Rajesh Ranjan, focused on compressible turbulent convection at extreme Rayleigh numbers. Currently, I am working on high-resolution simulations of moist turbulent convection in Earth’s troposphere, quantum and classical Euler turbulence, and scale-by-scale energy transfer.
I specialize in building scalable, custom simulation software from the ground up (such as DHARA) to run large-scale Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS) on high-performance supercomputers using MPI and GPU acceleration. My work bridges fundamental fluid dynamics and astrophysical flows with high-performance computation.
Outside of research, I enjoy trekking in the Himalayas, weight training, running, music, and gaming.
News
| Jun 15, 2026 | Visited Paris, France to participate in the trimester program workshop “Instabilities and transitions in geophysical flows” at Institute Henri Poincaré! ✈️ 🇫🇷 |
|---|---|
| Jun 01, 2026 | Completed my Ph.D. in Physics and started as a FARE Fellow at IIT Kanpur! 🎓 ✨ |
| May 18, 2026 | Gave a talk on “High-resolution simulations of dry and moist turbulent convection” at the ICTS Moist Convective Dynamics program. 🎤 |