Christos Dimitropoulos
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Experience
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R&D Test Systems
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Denmark
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Industrial Machinery Manufacturing
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200 - 300 Employee
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Development Engineer - Wind Turbines
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May 2021 - Present
Research and development on Wind Turbine components.Customer: Vestas Wind Systems.- Perform stress analysis and pre-develop new design concepts using analytical and FEM methods- Ensure compliance with certification requirements for new design concepts and technologies- Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders and partnersSoftware Tools: Ansys, in-house tools, JIRA, Windchill PDMLink, PTC Creo Research and development on Wind Turbine components.Customer: Vestas Wind Systems.- Perform stress analysis and pre-develop new design concepts using analytical and FEM methods- Ensure compliance with certification requirements for new design concepts and technologies- Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders and partnersSoftware Tools: Ansys, in-house tools, JIRA, Windchill PDMLink, PTC Creo
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Siemens
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Germany
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Automation Machinery Manufacturing
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700 & Above Employee
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e-Motor Development Engineer
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Apr 2018 - Sep 2020
Research and development on e-Powertrains for Valeo Siemens eAutomotive (VSeA). Robustness and durability simulations of electric motors- System level simulations of e-Powertrains (robustness, fatigue)- Assembly process simulations (e.g. manufacturing process of rotors, stators and subassemblies)- Structural Dynamics simulations (modal analysis, harmonic response, random vibrations, shockvibrations)- Durability simulations (stress life and strain life fatigue, random vibration fatigue)- Structural optimization- Simulation runtime optimization of large modelsSoftware Tools: NX-Nastran, Simcenter 3D, python, nCode
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TURBOMED S.A.
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Greece
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Maritime Transportation
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1 - 100 Employee
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Turbo machinery specialist
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Feb 2015 - Oct 2017
Performance assessment, maintenance and retrofit projects. Responsible for type approval procedures (Lloyd's Register, Bureau Veritas Register) for new T/C models- Vibration and balancing tests- Simulation studies (performance maps, aerodynamics, structural)- Technical coordination of retrofit projects- Performance assessment of turbochargers Performance assessment, maintenance and retrofit projects. Responsible for type approval procedures (Lloyd's Register, Bureau Veritas Register) for new T/C models- Vibration and balancing tests- Simulation studies (performance maps, aerodynamics, structural)- Technical coordination of retrofit projects- Performance assessment of turbochargers
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Centaur Analytics, Inc.
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United States
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Simulation Engineer
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Jul 2014 - Jan 2015
CFD studies (heat transfer and buoyancy driven flows) for energy efficiency and optimization during thermal processing of foods in warehouses.Software Tools: OpenFOAM, Salome CFD studies (heat transfer and buoyancy driven flows) for energy efficiency and optimization during thermal processing of foods in warehouses.Software Tools: OpenFOAM, Salome
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National Technical University of Athens
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Greece
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Research
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700 & Above Employee
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Research Engineer
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Jun 2013 - Jun 2014
Setting up the digital representation of marine diesel engines through modeling of componentsand processes (combustion heat release rate, turbocharger, inlet ports, exhaust gas valves).- Worked on initial stage of digital twin concept for large marine diesel engines- System level simulation studies - Simulation of engine operation for the purpose of addressing potential performance and maintenance issues (predictive maintenance)Software Tools: In house diesel engine simulation software, Fortran, Python.
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Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI
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Germany
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Research Services
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200 - 300 Employee
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Master Thesis Project
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Jun 2012 - Dec 2012
Master thesis work. Participated in a team project for the development of a software product forthe modeling and simulation of wind turbines. I implemented a software tool for the modal analysis(vibration eigenvalue problem) of wind turbines- Modelling of components (e.g. various tower structures, rotor-nacelle substructure)- Coding an FEA and a modal analysis solver - Technical guidelines on dynamicsSoftware Tools : Eclipse IDE, Java, LAPACK, Latex, in-house software tools.
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Education
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Technical University Munich
MSc, Computational Mechanics -
Technical University of Crete / Πολυτεχνείο Κρήτης
Dipl.-Ing. Mechanical & Production Engineer, Simulation of Production Systems,