Experience

Technical University of Munich

• Germany
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Associate

  • Jul 2019 - Present

  Numerical modeling of combustion phenomena in nuclear reactor safety. Numerical modeling of combustion phenomena in nuclear reactor safety.



SimScale

• Germany
• Software Development
• 100 - 200 Employee

• CFD Software Developer

  • Dec 2017 - Jun 2019

  Building and maintaining core simulation features:• MPI parallelization of the OpenFOAM view factor radiation solver (Gaussian elimination direct numerical method): achieved approx. 10x performance improvement for a standard industry-scale thermal comfort case.• Made face agglomeration procedure (required for view factor radiation model) more autonomous and robust by introducing geometric quality checks.• Implemented coupled CFD/lumped-parameter representation of heat sources applicable to, e.g. electronics thermal modeling. The work included taking charge in an ambitious cross-team effort of automating calculation of geometric parameters needed for simulations, directly from CAD. This dramatically improved the user experience and increased robustness.• Increased the success rate of compressible simulation types by 27% by introducing an improved numerical root finding algorithm in the solver procedure.• Maintaining and extending cloud-deployed OpenFOAM code: bug fixes, feature development, data-driven robustness improvements of solvers...• Overseen cross-team collaboration on the key-customer simulation benchmarking project.• Experience in mentoring junior staff and hiring: held more then a dozen technical interviews, test-case reviews and on-site days to help hire 3 interns + 5 working students. Advisory role in senior hiring. Show less

• Junior CFD Software Developer

  • Jun 2017 - Dec 2017

  • Development of a tool for automatic generation of the OpenFOAM configuration from a JSON input for fluid dynamics simulations.• Integration of functional and validation testing frameworks for all fluid simulation analysis types• Led the effort of improving reliability of service by implementing best practices for turbulent wall modeling.



Tokyo University of Science

• Japan
• Higher Education
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Research Intern

  • 2015 - 2015

  Research project in computational aero-thermodynamic analysis of transonic flow around a jet engine fan blade. Done using OpenFOAM (foam-extend). The project focused on design and simulation of a leading edge flap for rotating stall control. Research project in computational aero-thermodynamic analysis of transonic flow around a jet engine fan blade. Done using OpenFOAM (foam-extend). The project focused on design and simulation of a leading edge flap for rotating stall control.



Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH)

• Greece
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Intern

  • 2012 - 2012

  Assisting on a micro-scale biomass gasification plant project. Assisting on a micro-scale biomass gasification plant project.



Enerkon d.o.o.

• Zagreb

• Engineering Intern

  • 2011 - 2011

  Support of power/process plant design. Support of power/process plant design.