R&D/FLUID mechanics/ mechanical engineer
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DOMAINS OF EXPERTISE
AND AREAS OF INTEREST
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| - Fluid Mechanics: turbulence, CFD, experimentations, analysis | |
| - Mechanics: conception, design, testing, CAD | |
| - Project management |
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WORK EXPERIENCE AND
TRAINING
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| 09-Now | Mechanical Engineering Researcher, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN |
| - 2D and 3D heat transfer and fluid flow calculations using CFX and OpenFOAM | |
| 07-09 | Research Scientist, Dynaflow, Jessup, MD |
| - 2D and 3D free surface and bubble dynamic calculations using BEM method (2DynaFS and 3DynaFS) | |
| - Underwater explosion (UNDEX) calculations with Gemini (shock and fluid dynamic solver) | |
| - Two-phase flow experiments :PIV, particle tracking, high speed camera, pitot tube, pressure and acoustic measurements, strain gages | |
| - Material testing: Split Hopkinson Pressure bar, erosion testing | |
| - Mitigation of cavitation damage | |
| - Development of fortran, C++ and Matlab codes for experimental setup, post-processing, image processing | |
| - Preparation of technical proposals for submission to US government agencies | |
| 05-07 | Research Associate, dept. of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University of Virginia |
| - 2D and 3D CFD calculations using a fortran program | |
| - Development of flow macro-sensors based on biological sensors | |
| - Design of controlled fluid and mechanical experiments | |
| - Conception of a scaled prototype | |
| - Experimental flow description and analysis | |
| - Publications in international journals and conferences | |
| 02-05 | Research Assistant,dept. of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University of Virginia |
| - PIV and hotwire measurements in a simulated hard disk drive | |
| - CFD calculations of the unsteady 3D flow around the arm in a hard disk drive | |
| 02-05 | Teaching Assistant,dept. of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, University of Virginia |
| - Introduction to Aerospace Engineering, Prof. H. Wood | |
| - Experimental Methods Laboratory, Prof. T.C. Scott | |
| 2002 | ONERA, Toulouse, France |
| 4 months of research internship to obtain my Mac. Mechanical | |
| - LDV measurements on a centrifugal compressor benchmark | |
| - Calculation of the flow in a centrifugal compressor with the code colibri (2.5D, Euler-NS) | |
| 2001 | BOSCH, Mondeville, France |
| 3 months internship: assist to setup a new assembly line | |
| 2000 | Krups factory, Thurles, Ireland |
| 4 weeks worker internship | |
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EDUCATION
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| 2005 | University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA |
| PhD in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (October 2005) | |
| Dissertation title: Experimental and Numerical Study of the Flow in a Simulated Disk Drive | |
| Advisor: Prof. J.A.C. Humphrey | |
| 2002 | Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France |
| Msc. Mechanical, with honors | |
| Thesis title: Numerical and experimental investigations on rotor-stator interactions in a centrifugal compressor | |
| 2002 | Ecole Centrale de Lille, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France |
| 2002 | Msc. Mechanical, major in fluid mechanics, engineering "Grandes Ecoles" |
| 96-99 | Lycée Malherbe, Caen, France |
| 2002 | Intensive preparation to national competition for engineering "Grandes Ecoles" |
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AWARDS/HONORS
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| 02-03 | Full scholarship, School of Eng. and Applied Science, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA |
| 03-05 | Full scholarship, Information Storage Industry Consortium (INSIC), San Diego, CA |
| 2004 | Founder's Prize and Grant from the American Academy of Engineering, sponsored by the R. & M. Haythornthwaite Foundation |
| 2005 | Stipend from TSFP4 Organizing Committee to support the attendance of the Fourth International Symposium on Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena (TSFP4), Williamsburg, VA, June 27-29, 2005 |
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COMPUTER SKILLS AND
LANGUAGES
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| Programming: | |
| - Expert in Fortran | |
| - Good knowledge of Pascal, Visual Basic | |
| - Basics of C, html, php | |
| Software: | |
| - Expert in ANSYS CFX, OpenFOAM,Tecplot, Solidwork, Office | |
| - Good knowledge of KATIA, IDEAS, Matlab | |
| - Basics of Abaqus | |
| Languages: | |
| - English: reading, writing, verbal: excellent | |
| - French: mother tongue | |
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PUBLICATIONS
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Barbier C., « Progress through Mechanics : the Quantum Computer », winner of the Robert M. and Mary Haythornthwaite Foundation, Founders Prize and Grant, award received during the 2004 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress.
Barbier C., Humphrey J.A.C., Maslen E., « Experimental Study of the Flow in a Simulated Hard Disk Drive », Proceedings of Fourth International Symposium on Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena, Williamsburg, Virgina, p. 129-134, June 2005.
Barbier C., Humphrey J.A.C., Maslen E., 2006, « Experimental Study of the Flow in a Simulated Hard Disk Drive », Journal of Fluids Engineering, 128(5), p. 1090-1100.
Barbier C., Humphrey J.A.C., « Numerical calculation of the flow in the lateral line canal: applications to predators tracking prey », ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, 2006, Chicago .
Barbier C.,Humphrey J.A.C., Paulus J., 2007, « Design, Fabrication and Testing of a Bioinspired Hybrid Hair-Like Fluid Motion Sensor Array », ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, 2007, Chicago .
Hill J., Bart-Smith H., Barbier C., Humphrey J.A.C., 2006, « Investigation of a bioinspired whisker-like fluid motion sensor », ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, 2006, Chicago .
Pillapakkam S. B., Barbier C., Humphrey J. A. C., Rüter A., Otto B., Bleckmann H., Hanke W. , 2007, « Experimental and numerical investigation of a fish artificial lateral line canal », Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena , 3, pp. 1017-1022.
Barbier C., Humphrey J. A. C., 2009, « Drag force acting on a neuromast in the fish lateral line trunk canal. I. Numerical modelling of external–internal flow coupling », J R Soc Interface, 6(36), p. 627–640.
Barbier C., Chahine G. L., 2009, « Experimental Study on the Effects of Viscosity and Viscoelasticity on a Line Vortex Cavitation », 7th International Symposium on Cavitation, CAV2009, Ann Arbor, MI.
Barbier C., .« Thème de recherche : Etude numérique et expérimentale des intéractions rotor-stator dans un compresseur centrifugal », , Msc. Thesis, with honors ("Bien"), U.S.T.L., Lille, France.
Barbier C., «Experimental and Numerical Study of the Flow in a Simulated Disk Drive», PhD thesis, UVa, Charlottesville, USA.