Simulation and Modelling 2019

Giovanni Federico: Whole Engine Modelling Analyst, Rolls-Royce

Giovanni joined Rolls Royce in January 2018 as Whole Engine Modelling Analyst in the Whole Engine Structural System Design group, Civil Aerospace. He works in the Future Programme, where he support product development with FEA simulations. Prior to that Giovanni worked for Ansys UK as technical service engineer, where he helped customers from various industrial sectors to develop and deploy simulation workflows to solve engineering problems. He is a Chartered Engineer and holds a PhD and MS from University of Arizona, and BS from University or Rome La Sapienza.

Igor Strashny: Engineering Manager, Electrification & Validation Programs, Caterpillar Global Mining

Igor is an accomplished engineering leader and innovator with considerable product development expertise in the mining, marine, energy and transportation, and construction industries. His work has led to significant improvements in the products manufactured by Caterpillar and other OEMs in the on- and off-highway and marine sectors. Since joining Caterpillar in 1997, Igor has lived and worked in the USA, France, Japan and the UK while managing cross-functional and international teams. He holds over 20 patents and received BSc and MSc degrees in Applied Mathematics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Adam Brooke: Senior Principal Engineer, Modelling and Simulation, Fuel and Actuation Sub-Systems, Rolls-Royce

Dominic Dathan: Aero-Thermal Engineer, d2hAero

After graduating from the University of Cambridge with a Masters in Mechanical Engineering, Dom joined D2H in 2015 as an Aerothermal Engineer. He has since been involved in a range of cutting-edge projects including the design and wind tunnel testing of the latest ‘go-faster’ parts for summer and winter Olympics Sports, generation of high-speed algorithms and mining tools for experimental data processing and creating accurate physics based models for vehicle aerothermal simulations. Earlier this year he was accredited by the IMechE and became a Chartered Member.

Phanikrishna Thota: Landing Gear Technical Domain Specialist, Airbus

Neil Ashton: Senior Researcher, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford

Dr Neil Ashton is a Senior Researcher within the Department of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford. His research focuses on bridging the gap between academia and industry and developing the next generation of Computational Fluid Dynamics approaches. He completed his MEng and PhD at the University of Manchester and later worked at the Lotus Formula 1 team, where he was responsible for helping to develop the CFD and HPC methodology for the aerodynamic department. He now focuses on developing improved CFD methods and software to enable a truly virtual design process using large-scale HPC facilities. He was recently a visiting scientist at NASA Ames Research Centre and works closely with Formula 1 on their 2021 programme. He is a Chartered Engineer through the IMechE and a member of its Technical Strategy Board, Thermofluids Group and Education Advisory Group.

Mark Enzer: Chief Technical Officer, Mott MacDonald

Louise Wright: Science Area Leader for Modelling, National Physical Laboratory

Louise Wright leads NPL's continuous modelling work, applying numerical techniques such as finite element (FE) methods to metrology problems from a wide range of areas of physics. She is interested in methods of integrating measurement data into models to enable estimation and uncertainty evaluation for parameters and initial conditions. This “digital twin” approach uses a combination of data gathered throughout a system’s development and lifetime and a validated model to deliver high accuracy predictions of system performance with associated uncertainty quantification. Louise received an MA in Mathematics and an MSc in Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis. She spent four years working with FE in industry before joining NPL in 1999. Louise is the chair of the NAFEMS Working Group on Computational Structural Mechanics, and is a founding member of the NAFEMS Professional Simulation Engineer certification scheme.

Prashant Khapane: Head of Advance Simulation Technology Engineering Laboratories, Jaguar Land Rover

Engineering strategist with demonstrable experience of leading multiple complex projects simultaneously in the automotive, railway and aerospace industries. Developed and led diverse teams of engineering analyst, both onsite and off-shore, creating innovative engineering solutions to meet the most demanding vehicle requirements. Passionate vehicle engineering manager delivering optimized vehicle design with enterprise context. A believer of concept-to-customer is a virtuous circle and a leader with the motto: “together, we go further”. Currently working as Head of Advanced Simulation & Measurement Technology and has worked at BMW AG, Simulia AG, German Aerospace Centre in the past in various roles.

Adrian Gaylard: Technical Specialist, Computational Aerodynamics & WDM, Jaguar Land Rover

Adrian Gaylard joined British Rail’s Research Division in 1987 with a degree in Physics and Maths from Leicester Polytechnic, moving into aerodynamics in 1989 to apply CFD to rail vehicles and infrastructure. In 1996 he joined MIRA and worked on automotive, wind engineering and sports science aerodynamics projects. Adrian moved to Jaguar Land Rover in 2001 where he is the Technical Specialist for Computational Aerodynamics. Adrian has interests in drag reduction, unsteady aerodynamics, surface contamination and computational aeroacoustics. Adrian is a Chartered Engineer and Chartered Physicist, Chair of Vehicle Aerodynamics at the SAE, Chair of the EPSRC National Wind Tunnel Facility Advisory Board and a Board Member of the European Car Aerodynamics Research Association.

Albrecht Kyrieleis: Senior Consultant, Nuclear Physics, Wood Group PLC

Claire Lucas: Principal Teaching Fellow, University of Warwick

Tim Morris: Chief Executive, NAFEMS

Tim Morris joined NAFEMS in 2003. He has driven the organization forward to achieve; improved international participation and increased coverage of the range of engineering simulation technologies that are embraced; and the supply of high quality guidance on the use of simulation for engineering practitioners.

Prior to joining NAFEMS Tim worked for 16 years in industry, and held a number of roles before becoming Associate Director at a leading consulting companies. During this time, he developed expertise in a variety of simulation technologies including dynamics and advanced non-linear analysis.

Tim is a Chartered Engineer and a graduate of Oxford University.

Scott Eberhardt: Solutions Architect Specialist-HPC, Amazon Web Services

Scott Eberhardt holds an Aerospace Ph.D. and is an expert in algorithms for computational fluid dynamics. Dr. Eberhardt currently is a Principle Solutions Architect for AWS, specializing in HPC. Dr. Eberhardt spent 20 years as an aerospace professor at the University of Washington and worked at NASA prior and Boeing after. In 2012, Scott left Boeing and spent six years as a journeyman professor, teaching in India (IITB), Australia (Monash), the UK (Bristol), Spain (León) and the US (U of W). Scott’s doctorate is from Stanford University and he holds a BS and MS from MIT, all in Aeronautics and Astronautics.

Akin Keskin: Chief of Virtual Engine Design, Rolls-Royce

Dr Akin Keskin is a Rolls-Royce Engineering Associate Fellow in Design Systems and Methodologies. Akin has an Aerospace Engineering degree with a focus on Turbomachinery Design from the Berlin University of Technology in Germany and PhD in Mechanical Engineering with a focus on Process Automation and Design Optimisation from the Cottbus University in Germany. He started his professional career 15 years ago at Rolls-Royce Deutschland and is now based in Derby working for Rolls-Royce plc. Throughout his entire career he has been developing improved simulation methods and integrated design systems to help the Engineering community with better and faster tools.

Chris Sigournay: Thermo-fluids Analyst, EDF-Energy

Chris graduated from the University of Warwick in 2006. He worked in consultancy for five years in the civil nuclear industry supporting operation of the remaining Magnox reactors before joining EDF Energy in 2011 as a thermo-fluids analyst specialising in computational modelling. At EDF, Chris has worked on a variety of complex event recoveries and challenges associated with degradation and ageing of the gas cooled reactor fleet and also made significant contributions to the new Dry Storage facility for spent fuel at Sizewell B.

Alessandro Picarelli: Engineering Director, Claytex

Alessandro Picarelli has been working in the automotive industry since finishing his MSc in Mechanical Engineering at University of Warwick in 2001. He started working in Powertrain strategy at Jaguar Land Rover for technology for fuel economy and performance futuring for gasoline engines. He then moved to the IARC (International Automotive Research Centre) at Warwick University to develop simulation tools for hybrid vehicle architecture selection. To date Alessandro has been working in systems simulation at Claytex and has been responsible for the delivery of a variety of projects ranging from thermal management to whole vehicle modelling, powertrain modelling, virtual testing and driver-in-the-loop applications. He is an advocate for using a holistic approach for systems integration and vehicle engineering rather than it being carried out in silos.

Rob Lewis: Managing Director, TotalSim

Rob Lewis OBE graduated from the University of Leeds in 1991 with a BEng Honours degree in Mechanical Engineering and subsequently again from Leeds in 1995 with a PhD in CFD. From 1995 to 1998 he worked as a support engineer and later project team leader at Fluent Europe Ltd. From 1998 to 2007 Rob led Advantage CFD, an aerodynamics and CFD consultancy, from start-up with Reynard Motorsport to eventual closure under Honda F1 Racing Team. In 2007 Rob and others founded TotalSim Ltd, a Computational Fluid Dynamics Consultancy which employs 35 people in Brackley and Silverstone, Northamptonshire and also has an office in America and Japan. Rob is a chartered engineer and a Fellow of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers. In June 2017 Rob was awarded an OBE for services to science applied to sport in recognition of Rob’s contribution to the performance of British athletes’ over the last 3 Olympic campaigns.

Erdem Ozturk: Senior Technical Fellow – Digital Machining, Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre with Boeing

Erdem Ozturk is the Senior Technical Fellow leading the digital machining theme at AMRC. The main body of work involves development of process models and integration of these models with measurements from machines. He got his PhD degree from Sabanci University in 2010. He founded the Machining Dynamics team at AMRC and led the growth of the capabilities and skills of the team until recently. The team has had a diverse portfolio of projects funded by H2020, Innovate UK, Catapult and companies. He is an Associate member of CIRP (The International Academy For Production Engineering).

Steffan Evans: Director and Lead FEA Engineer, Evotech Computer-Aided Engineering Ltd.

·       Doctor of Engineering, ‘Multi-Parameter Structural Optimisation’

·       Chartered Mechanical Engineer, C.Eng. M.I.Mech.E.

·       NAFEMS Professional Simulation Engineer, Advanced Level

·       15 Years spent in Airbus/BAE Systems Supply Chain involved in Strategic FEA Development, Analysis and Verification

·       Past 3 years running Evotech CAE Ltd, an engineered product consultancy supporting SMEs with many aspects of CAE, FEA and Design Optimisation

Joss James: Senior Technical Manager, SIMULIA

After graduating from Leeds University in 1987 with a BEng in Materials Science Joss went on to work for the British Cast Iron Research Association for nine years. In 1996 he returned to University in Loughborough and completed a PhD in Microstructure Prediction in Austempered Ductile Iron. Following this Joss got his first introduction to FEA and the Abaqus toolset during short stints at Federal Mogul and TRW. In 2005 he joined HKS (as it was) as the on-site engineer at Jaguar Landrover where he was responsible for support of the Abaqus user base, development of the SIMULIA toolset and, latterly, the deployment of the Simulation Apps in 3DEXPERIENCE. Joss has recently taken on a new role as manager of the EuroNorth SIMULIA T&M and IE Industry Team.

Richard Boyd: Technical Specialist, Altair

Adam Martin: Solution Architect, MAYA HTT UK Ltd

Simon Smith: Finite Element Analyst, Transform Stress Ltd