Research & Development Engineer
Alstom
Total years of experience :15 years, 5 Months
Designed & implemented a set of technologies that led to ~5MW gains in Gas Turbine power.
Single-handedly initiated, developed & improved a broad set of tools and processes that already saved many man working years for the R&D department.
Lectures on Thermodynamics, Numerical Simulation & Optimisation to the R&D department (~400 people).
Trained ~50 people on Python & imposed the usage of Python into production environment.
Developed key methods and technologies to provide the European Commission Regulatory Bodies sufficient evidences that the Ansaldo/GE/Alstom divestment deal was making Ansaldo a long term viable competitor.
Managing University partnerships for research & consultancy projects.
Responsible for flow characterisation for blow off systems and gas turbine design features
Responsible for fleet data analysis and comparison with model based Monte Carlo analyses.
On-site Gas Turbine experimental data collection, analysis and design features validation.
Reduced blades cooling mass flow by ~15% without compromising on blade lifetime.
Developed methods and tools that improved reliability of compressor aero elastic design & simulation
Provided regular internal lectures about technology development to ~50 engineers.
Work Package leader and CFD & optimisation expert for the FP7-ERICKA project.
Writing offers, tenders and reports for clients about Engineering Analysis.
Performing CFD analyses on a broad range of problems: Turbomachinery, Oil & Gas, Renewables and Environmental flows
Providing expert off and on site technical support and advanced training for ANSYS meshing and CFX as well as creating sales presentations and demonstrations using ANSYS CFD suite.
Title: Investigation of jet engine turbine improvement through cavity rim sealing performance enhancement. Specialisation: CFD (Computational Fluids Dynamics), Meshing, designing and optimising a turbine stage. Design optimisation of high pressure turbine stages.
Specialisation: Fluid Mechanics and Energy
Specialisation: Mechanics and Energy, with Hydrodynamic Unstable Flows Modelling.
Invetigation and analysis of different intitutional systems and understanding the impacts on society