Simão Rodrigues
Aerospace Engineer, PhD
Welcome
I am an aerospace engineer with a PhD from Instituto Superior Técnico on the subject of sensitivity analysis for multi-stage turbomachinery applications using adjoint methods and automatic differentiation. My research interests include multidisciplinary design optimization, wind energy, aircraft design, computational and experimental aerodynamics and life cycle analysis and optimization.
I enjoy programming and have experience using Python, Fortran, C/C++, PHP, HTML, CSS, amongst other languages.
- Multidisciplinary Design Optimization
- Computational Fluid Dynamics
- Aeroacoustics
- Wind Turbine
- Aircraft Design
- Aerodynamics
- Data Analysis / Visualization
PhD in Aerospace Engineering, 2019
Instituto Superior Técnico
MSc in Aerospace Engineering, 2012
Instituto Superior Técnico
Experience
- Integration of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) tool with Multi-disciplinary Optimization framework.
- Exploration and development of interactive visualization solutions for multi-objective optimization results.
Participate in project IMOTHEP (https://www.imothep-project.eu/)
- Development (and application) of tools and procedures for the initial design and aerodynamic shape optimization of aircraft intakes (shape parameterization; data/file handling; flow analysis; data visualization)
FLEXCRAFT project (https://www.flexcraft.pt)
Development of an RPV to demonstrate a new aircraft concept
- Design/machine/assemble various structural parts
- Design and perform experiments to study its inertial characteristics
- Participate in ground vibration tests of RPV
- Perform numerical simulations to estimate its flight stability
- Co-manage team of students working on the project
