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Engineer in Love with Math . . .

Tools of my trade
Tools of my trade, as a Venn diagramThree overlapping regions — Math bordered by a sine wave, Engineering Physics by a steel chain, Computing by a ring of ones and zeros — each containing a comic panel. Where all three overlap, a cross is marked, with an arrow and the caption: exploration has brought me here and this is a beautiful place! It is mine.111001001100011000000001110011001110110100010110000001111001101101000000110010011011001100010000110111000000111010100100000110100001Mathbooksblack coffeepaperpendeskEngineering PhysicsMFSPixHawk3D printer, machining tools,flight simulatorComputingNumerical Computing,and admiring the witsof Richard HammingExploration has brought me hereand this is a beautiful place!It is mine.

About Me

Kshitij Anand in the cockpit of a light aircraft, wearing an aviation headset, with farmland and a river far below.

I am Kshitij Anand. My primary identity is that of a reader and a tinkerer. This year I am rabbit-holing into topics like analytical mechanics, mathematics of analysis and linear algebra, and philosophy. Currently I am pursuing my doctoral studies with the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California, Irvine. My focus is on developing the finite element numerical framework for the Principle of Minimum Pressure Gradient, which involves extending Udwadia–Kalaba’s closed-form constrained motion solution to the continuous setting. At the ADC Lab we call it the Variational Projection of Navier–Stokes. I love being employed as a Teaching Assistant, and I look forward to my first lecture as a Professor someday.

I am working on it, but I am a little restless. Hence I like to move between readings, programming and tinkering with 3D printing at the ADC Lab during the day. In the evenings, you will either find me at the gym or biking around the Newport Back Bay loop. I like to end my day with some non-tech reading, and watching clips of The Office while having dinner. As I build this site I will write a lot — because I have a lot to say, and I think it comes out best when I write it, people read it and then we have a dialogue. That’s how we have been advancing knowledge, and I believe that’s a good enough purpose to live life as a human.