CV

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Contact Information

Name Harshit Tiwari
Professional Title FARE Fellow
Email tharshit@iitk.ac.in
Location 103E, Old Core Labs, Academic area, IIT Kanpur, Kanpur, U.P. 208016

Professional Summary

FARE Fellow at IIT Kanpur working on turbulent convection, atmospheric and astrophysical flows, compressible flows, and high-performance computing.

Experience

  • 2026 - Present

    Kanpur, India

    Fellowship for Academic and Research Excellence (FARE) Fellow
    Department of Physics, IIT Kanpur
    High-resolution simulations of moist turbulent convection in Earth’s troposphere, quantum and classical Euler turbulence, and scale-by-scale energy transfer in thermal convection.
  • 2021 - 2026

    Kanpur, India

    Graduate Researcher
    Department of Physics, IIT Kanpur
    Simulated turbulent compressible convection at extreme Rayleigh numbers, developed scalable solvers with GPU and MPI support, and applied advanced numerical methods to study shocks/turbulence in astrophysical flows.
  • 2020 - 2021

    Kanpur, India

    Master's Student Researcher
    Department of Physics, IIT Kanpur
    Project on “Theoretical Modelling of Accretion Disk Oscillations” under Prof. Pankaj Jain and Prof. J.S. Yadav.

Education

  • 2021 - 2026

    Kanpur, India

    Doctor of Philosophy in Physics
    Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
    • {“Thesis”=>”Compressible turbulent convection at extreme Rayleigh numbers”}
    • Courses on Tapestry of Field Theory, Physics of Turbulence, High-Performance Computing, and Advanced Statistical Physics.
  • 2019 - 2021

    Kanpur, India

    Master of Science in Physics
    Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
    • Courses on High Energy Astrophysics, Nuclear and Particle Physics, and Quantum Field Theory.
  • 2016 - 2019

    Nainital, India

    Bachelor of Science
    Kumaun University
    • {“Subjects”=>”Physics, Mathematics, Chemistry”}

Teaching Experience

Awards

  • 2025
    Session Chair
    APS DFD Annual Meeting (Houston, Texas, USA)

    Chaired session “Convection and Buoyancy-Driven Flows: Heat Transfer, Instabilities & Turbulence”

  • 2025
    Division of Fluid Dynamics Enabling Award
    American Physical Society

    Supported attendance at the 2025 DFD Annual Meeting.

  • 2019
    IIT JAM All India Rank 74
    IIT JAM

    Secured AIR 74 among 15,000 applicants.

  • 2019
    Merit cum Means Scholarship
    IIT Kanpur

    Aug 2019 - May 2021

References

  • Prof. Mahendra K. Verma

    Department of Physics, IIT Kanpur, India (mkv@iitk.ac.in)

  • Prof. Rajesh Ranjan

    Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Kanpur, India (rajeshr@iitk.ac.in)

  • Prof. Katepalli R. Sreenivasan

    Professor of Physics, NYU, USA (katepalli.sreenivasan@nyu.edu)