Kartik Upadhyay is a CAE Analyst at Mercedes-Benz Research & Development India for brake airflow simulations.

Kartik did his Master Studies in Computational Fluid Dynamics as his major from University of Rostock, Germany. During his masters, he also did an internship at HZDR Dresden in the area of multiphase flows.

Kartik started working at Mercedes-Benz India as a Brake Simulation Engineer mainly responsible for thermal analysis of brake discs and data analysis of brake noise events. Recently, he also started working on the topic of brake dust emissions and analysis using DEM simulation methods in combination with CFD.