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Ravindra Aglave is the Director for Energy and Process Industries in the Simulation and Test (STS) subsegment of Siemens PLM Software. In this role, he is responsible for bringing new modeling and physics knowledge into CFD simulation code that can be deployed in the industry.

Anthony Defilippo is a Senior Analyst at Porter McGuffie Inc. He began his career with the company as an intern while completing his mechanical engineering undergraduate education at the University of Kansas. He then went on to the University of California, Berkley, where he received his PhD in mechanical engineering. Dr. DeFilippo worked with Abengoa Research on molten salt thermal energy storage and second-generation biofuels.

Sean Mcguffie is the Senior Engineer at Porter McGuffie Inc., where he is responsible for developing and implementing the technical course for all PMI projects. With more than 20 yr of experience with numerical analysis on 200-plus projects, he has completed more than 90,000 hr of software work that required 50 MM CPU hours. His principle career aim is advancing the acceptance and use of computeraided engineering tools for mechanical design/ operations analyses. Dr. McGuffie works toward this goal by developing and propagating the techniques required for accurate analyses that consider the relevant physics. Outside his daily engineering consulting work, Dr. McGuffie’s present foci are advanced turbulence modeling and adaptation of techniques for the resolution of subgrid scale effects on coarser grids (Lagrangian and reacting flows focus); prediction of flow-induced forces (including acoustics and shock waves) with coupling to static and transient structural analyses; and advanced consideration of wall models during coupled fluid-thermal-structural analyses. He graduated from the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and is a licensed Professional Engineer in the State of Kansas.