Projects

FLEXCRAFT – Flexible Aircraft – is an aircraft that combines the idea of modularity – allowing a reconfiguration of the cabin for different missions (commercial and recreational, emergency and assistance, among others) with STOL capability – to compete with rotary wing solutions, through short runway operation, improving overall performance.

My PhD work was on the subject of adjoint methods for multi-stage turbomachinery CFD sensitivity analysis, where I further developed an existing adjoint solver of a proprietary CFD code for turbomachinery applications by implementing the adjoint counterpart of the mixing-plane interface, making use of automatic differentiation tools.

This was my master thesis project. It consisted in developing a tool for aeroacoustic optimization of wind turbine blades. The tool was divided into three parts: geometry parameterization, aerodynamic analysis and acoustic analysis.