philippe Lott, Research & Development Engineer

philippe Lott

Research & Development Engineer

Alstom

Lieu
France
Éducation
Doctorat, CFD, Optimisation and Turbomachinery
Expérience
15 years, 5 Mois

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Expériences professionnelles

Total des années d'expérience :15 years, 5 Mois

Research & Development Engineer à Alstom
  • Suisse
  • Je travaille ici depuis mai 2013

 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.

Research Engineer à Cenaero
  • Belgique
  • juillet 2010 à avril 2013

 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.

Engineering Analyst à IDAC Ltd
  • Royaume Uni - London
  • décembre 2008 à juin 2010

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.

Éducation

Doctorat, CFD, Optimisation and Turbomachinery
  • à The University of Surrey
  • septembre 2011

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.

Master, Engineering in Fluids Engineering
  • à ESSTIN
  • septembre 2005

Specialisation: Fluid Mechanics and Energy

Master, Fluids and Energy
  • à Masters of Sciences
  • septembre 2005

Specialisation: Mechanics and Energy, with Hydrodynamic Unstable Flows Modelling.

Diplôme, Compared Political Institutions
  • à Sciences Po
  • septembre 2003

Invetigation and analysis of different intitutional systems and understanding the impacts on society

Specialties & Skills

Project Management
Optimisation
Programming
Gas Turbines
Turbomachinery
Programming
Teaching/Lecturing/Mentoring
Gas Turbine Operations

Langues

Anglais
Expert
Français
Expert
Allemand
Débutant
Arabe
Débutant

Formation et Diplômes

International Forum on Aero Structures Dynamics (Formation)
Institut de formation:
IFASD
Date de la formation:
July 2011
Durée:
32 heures
Optimisation Training (Formation)
Institut de formation:
Von Karman Institute
Date de la formation:
May 2012
Durée:
40 heures
Turbomachine Expo (Formation)
Institut de formation:
ASME
Date de la formation:
June 2009
Durée:
40 heures

Loisirs

  • Biking
  • Reading
  • Basketball
    Coached Surrey University Basketball Team to the English Universities Championship Finales.
  • Tennis
  • Swimming
  • Chess
    Lead Chess teams until baccalaureate