Budiman looking across golden grasses, mist-filled green ridges, and a distant mountain beneath a cloudy sky

Engineering · Computation · Research · Writing

I look closer.

A personal record of what I build, what I learn, and the questions that stay with me.

01

A working archive
for unfinished ideas

Why this website exists

This is where I document what I build, what I learn, and what I think about.

Part engineering notebook, part editorial journal. A place to make ideas clearer by putting them into words.

02 / Selected practice

Selected Work

A selection of projects, experiments, and research across physical systems and computation.

01 Research · 2026

NH₃ H₂ N₂ Combustion
Reduced Order Model

Machine learning / Combustion / CFD

A physics-guided reduced-order model combining adiabatic CFD, conjugate heat-transfer simulation, finite-rate Cantera/Otomo chemistry, and experimental residual machine learning to predict burner temperature, NO, and product composition.

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02 Propulsion design · 2026

5kN Methalox
Rocket Engine

Rocket propulsion / Thermal analysis / CFD / Structural analysis

Design and analysis of a 5 kN methalox rocket engine, covering propulsion trade-offs, regenerative and film cooling, thermal-structural modelling, coupled CFD, and the complete test-system P&ID.

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03 Research · 2026

NH₃ H₂ N₂ Combustion
Conjugate Heat Transfer Model

Combustion / CFD / Conjugate Heat Transfer

A real solid-fluid interaction (conjugate heat transfer) for combustion that used to get the temperature profile of the burner and the heat loss of the burner, even the combustion species concentration accurately.

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Clouds gathering between dark green mountain ridges
A wild grass stem in a laboratory flask beside a field notebook
Pencil diagrams and a fluid simulation at a quiet workbench

Observation, model, iteration — field note 04

05 / Reading library

Currently Reading

Books I am reading, returning to, and thinking through in public.

Portrait of Budiman Utomo in a dark suit and white shirt
Budiman after a training session
A single grass stem held in clear scientific glassware
Budiman with the agricultural drone development team

06 / A short introduction

About me

I’m interested in the intersection of engineering, computation, science, and the process of learning itself.

This website is where those interests meet.

More about me

07 / In progress

Now.

Updated August 2026
Jakarta, Indonesia

Building

HALE UAV, Methalox rocket engine, and AI

Focus only one thing at a time, but on many things in turns, this way I can deeply focus on one thing and also make progress on many things, and this way I don't get bored of doing the same thing for too long.

Learning

Computer Science and Japanese Language

Learn about AI, Machine Learning, and Computer System Architecture here. These activities are really train my logic and math. For Japanese Language, I learn it because I want to go to Japan one day, and because of my GF.

Reading

Knowledge and Human Interests

Jürgen Habermas on the intersection of knowledge and interest. It was great, but I still don't fully understand it.

Thinking about

My dream and Social constructivism

How to achieve my dream and how social constructivism affects my dream.