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East Kilbride, Scotland, United Kingdom

East Kilbride, Scotland, United Kingdom

Delivering and leading projects across a wide range of industry sectors, including automotive, marine, oil & gas, water, energy; pre-sale support; training and supervision of junior staff

Consultant at Rolls-Royce plc, Civil Aerospace, DerbyUltrafan family jet engines, fire and ventilation• CFD modelling of the engine’s core zone. Prediction of heat transfer and temperature distribution. Improved physical modelling• Methodology for fast meshing of complex geometries, solver setup and post-processing achieving significant time saving• Modelling of the distribution of the extinguishant• Task definition• Training and supervision of consultants• Ensure on-time and on-quality delivery of the projects

Derby, United Kingdom

Consultant at Rolls-Royce plc, Civil Aerospace, DerbyThermo-fluids, Future Programmes Engineering - UltraFan RB3059Tasks delivered:• Generation of a correlation for windage and pumping• 1D design and modelling of a secondary air system for the ventilation of bearing chambers with failure analysis• CFD simulation for windage prediction of turbine cavities for architecture study• CFD simulation of compressor cavity for vortices characterisation and pressure loss prediction• Thermo-mechanical modelling of engine hot-end and seal optimisation

Renfrew, Uk

Responsible for:• Establishing and leading CFD activities to time, cost and quality in accordance with CFD best practice and stakeholder requirements• CFD capability development with ANSYS and CD-Adapco software packages• CFD best practice improvement• Multiphase flows and fluid-structure interaction modelling• Generation of reduced order models of boiler components for power plant digitalisationProjects:• CFD modelling and analysis for Tangential-firing burner optimisation• CFD modelling and analysis of a new concept burner for downshot firing technology• Optimisation of a high ash coal burner

Sheffield, United Kingdom

Responsible for providing product support and training, key customer development, business development, sales and marketing, and product development assistance. • Provided direct reactive and proactive support to one of the biggest ANSYS UK accounts, a major Formula One team.• Demonstrated key features of the simulation software to prospects and existing customers.• Provided technical support and training to both industrial and academic customers consistently meeting or exceeding service quality targets.• Published two conference papers on CFD-driven optimisation of film and effusion cooling for gas turbines in the ASME Turbo Expo 2015.• Prize winner (Europe Region) in the 2015 ANSYS Demo contest, with a fatigue analysis of a cone flow meter, in team with a colleague.• Worked on a benchmark for a prospect using scripting to automate the simulation with ANSYS Fluent.• Prepared validation cases for inclusion in the ANSYS database and available worldwide within the company.• Created and delivered presentations for seminars and marketing events.

Leeds, United Kingdom

Projects:- “Reliable and Efficient Combustion of Oxygen/Coal/Recycled Flue Gas Mixtures” – RELCOM- EPSRC-EON OxyCap UK- Performed RANS and Large Eddy Simulations of lab, pilot and full scale coal fired furnaces in both air and oxy-fuel environments- Managed and supervised on a daily basis PhD research students on different subjects, including coal combustion, micro gas turbines and scramjet- Delivered lectures and seminars on Large Eddy Simulation (LES) and ANSYS ICEM CFD software to MSc and PhD students- Published research papers in high impact factor international journals and conferences- Performed consultancies/feasibility studies for industrial partners- Panellist in the ANSYS webinar “Learn How Mesh Morphing Accelerates CFD-Driven Shape Modifications” with a CFD-driven optimisation study with mesh morphing of a ship hull- Development of integrated CFD/process simulation models- Development of sub-models for CFD

Phd, Aerospace, Naval And Quality Engineering

CFD simulation of free-surface flows around 2D bodies and ship hulls; resistance predictions; co-examiner of three degree theses; teaching.

Aerospace Engineering

Aerodynamics; flight dynamics; aircraft design; jet engines; aeronautical structures; aerodynamic loads; induced drag calculations; panel.