NicolasVerdonCanyon

Nicolas Verdon

PhD, Computational Mechanics

Trier, Germany

verdon.nicolas@gmail.com

+33 6 17 67 68 76

https://github.com/NicolasVerdon


Skills

Computational Fluid Dynamics

90%

Extrusion modeling

80%

DevOps

75%

Data Science

70%

Web Development

60%

Project Management

50%

Languages

French

English

German

Spanish


Hobbies

Canyoning

Hiking

Bike


Work Experience

Principal Engineer / Goodyear
Oct 2012 - Current

Numerical Simulation

Strong expertise in FEA & numerical simulations using commercial packages (Ansys Polyow) as well as developing in-house solutions. Long experience in Extrusion Simulation and Simulation of the Shaping in the press, with the development of fully automated tools and new approaches for mixing simulations. Expertise in Data Mining and Visualization using Python (Dash & Streamlit) and Tableau together with establishing pipelines using Gitlab and Github.

Project Management

Principal Investigator in a large scale project: communication with various stakeholders in many different departments of Goodyear, conception and follow-up of a project plan, review of the progress and assignement of tasks, presentation of the deliverables to the customers with associated training sessions.

Patents & Certifications


Research Engineer in Reduced-Order Modeling / Estia Recherche
Apr 2011 - Sep 2012

Development of Reduced Order Models for real-time mechanical computations applied to archeology, work in cooperation with Human Computer Interaction team.

Articles & Conference papers


Research Engineer in Stokes flow / University of Nice - CEMEF
Oct 2009 - Mar 2011

Development and implementation of a contact model into a massively parallel CFD code: application to the behaviour of solid particles in a shear flow (dilute and moderate dense suspensions).

Articles & Conference papers


Research Engineer in Submarine gravity flow / LAEGO - G2R, University of Nancy
Jun 2008 - Sep 2009

Development of a Saint-Venant-code for the application to submarine gravity flows.

Articles & Conference papers


Research Engineer in Aeroelasticity / Airbus - DLR
Jan 2008 - May 2009

Improvement of the Finite Element model of the A380 aircraft with NASTRAN.


Research assistant in Mechanics & Applied Mathematics / University of La Rochelle
Jan 2008 - May 2009

Teaching activities from BSc to MSc, option Civil Engineering.


Education

LEPTAB, University of La Rochelle
2004 - 2007

PhD in Computational Fluid Dynamics

The main aim of my work is to study the Reduced Order Models (ROM) for solving transfer equations. To perform accurate computations, we need very ne discretizations of the physical problems which leads to large systems of equations to solve. Using ROM allows to reduce the computational times required for solving these systems. The method I am currently developping is based on the Proper Orthogonal Decomposition which is the most used ROM in the field of Computational Fluid Dynamics, and the Krylov subspaces which are spaces used to build numerical methods for large sparse linear systems. The method has been tested for the convection-diffusion equation and is now applied to the Navier-Stokes equations, especially for the academic test case of a driven cavity.

Articles & Conference papers


University of Rennes I
2013 - 2015
Master Degree

Specialization in material science, continuum mechanics, Finite Element Method and Computational Fluid Dynamics, with distinction.


ENSIETA
2013 - 2015
Master Degree

  • 1st year: ground formation (electronics, mechanics, and informatics)
  • 2nd year: option Mechanics (Finite Element Method, Structural Dynamics, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Continuum mechanics)
  • 3rd year: specialization in numerical methods in mechanics (Finite Element Method, Finite Volume Method, non-linear deformations,... ).


Tools

OS & Office

Windows, Linux

MS Office, LibreOffice, LATEX, Beamer

Finite Element

Polyflow, openFOAM, FlowVision, Abaqus

Web tools & Databases

HTML, CSS, JavaScript, d3.js, Meteor, React, FastAPI, MongoDB, MS SQL

DevOps

Gitlab, Github, Docker, Jira

Dashboarding

Tableau, Dash, Streamlit

Programming

Python, Fortran, Shell, Julia, C/C++ (notions)

Post-Processing

Paraview, CFX-Post, Tecplot, Gimp, Gnuplot, Matplotlib, Plotly