Building a Consulting Company – Successes & Failures

Topics: Visualization techniques, Numerical methods, Interpolation, Analytical techniques, Scientific Computing

Dr. Runchal was part of the 3-person group that developed the Finite Volume Method (FVM) at Imperial college under the guidance of Prof. Brian Spalding. After completing his Ph, D. he joined academia but then moved to consulting. In this talk he describes why and how he moved to the consulting world and the lessons learnt from establishing and running a consulting company. The talk also touches upon his personal journey in moving from a remote village in India to the 60’s of London and the 70's of California.

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