We are happy to announce the launch of the SimScale Power User Program and welcome our first 6 members. These users have been especially active, have a deep understanding of simulation on the SimScale platform, and most importantly are keen to share their expertise with all members of the SimScale Community.
You can recognize SimScale Power Users by this badge in the forum.
“I’m Ben. I run a company called Custom Machines. My core business is industrial machine design. This involves mechanical design (SolidWorks), automation, data acquisition and of course simulation. My flagship project is a machine that makes grain silos automatically. It can form a typical silo barrel, 5 m in diameter, 6 m tall in around 5 minutes. These days I do a lot of FEA work with strain gauge validation.
I came to SimScale with some prior experience with Pro/E Mechanica and SolidWorks Simulation. I’ve been using the FEA side of SimScale pretty solidly for about 18 months now. I have no experience with CFD but I’m hoping to learn as time permits. I’m really supportive of what SimScale is doing and really want to see it reach its full potential.”
“My name is Liang. I used Dylan because a long time ago people generally couldn’t pronounce my name properly. I came to Australia 5 years ago from China for an undergrad degree in mechanical engineering. Now I am doing a PhD on aerodynnamics and aeroacoustics at Macquarie Univeristy in Sydney with a former F1 aerodynamicist.
I like motorsport a lot. When I was studying I was part of the FSAE team at University of Western Australia. Now I am still doing something relevant to motorsport so I am glad about it. I started to use SimScale about a year ago. I don’t have a lot of hobbies, but designing and building racecars is one of them.”
Roozbeh Mousavi (@roozbehmousavi)
“My name is Roozbeh Mousavi. I work in Technische Universität Darmstadt (Germany) as a research associate in the field of the CFD simulation, specifically the CFD simulation of the cavitation flows.
I accomplished my PhD research in the same university in the field of the higher-order discontinuous Galerkin method for the CFD simulation of the multiphase flows.
I achieved my Master’s and bachelor’s degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Shiraz University (Iran). My B.Sc. thesis was on the FEM simulation of the structural vibration and my M.Sc. thesis on the CFD simulation of the cavitation flows and bubble dynamics.
I am very interested in using CFD for investigating the physics of the flow and optimizing the performance of the fluid systems.
I became familiar with Simscale in my short stay in an engineering office last year. I am working with this platform since the beginning of 2015 as an academic user. I used Simscale to perform some CFD simulations for the Formula student team of TU Darmstadt to determine the aerodynamic performance of their racing car.
It is great that the Simscale platform is getting more and more user-friendly and more capabilities are being included.”
Christopher Quijano (@cjquijano)
“My name is Christopher and I work for HP Inc and I also have my own consulting business.
I graduated from the University of Idaho with a bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering way back in 1990 and I now live in Boise, Idaho USA. My studies in school focused on experimental fluid mechanics and when I graduated I was hired on by Boeing in Seattle Washington into their Propulsion Research group where I focused on structural mechanics. A lot different than what I studied.
Boeing was an incredible job. I performed a lot of the standard analysis on the static and dynamic components of a jet engine. Things like static, modal, dynamic, nonlinear, and thermal analysis. However, I also was able to help develop the capabilities to study a bird impact on a fan blade, including being able to slice through the bird as well as eroding elements on the fan blade. When I left I was even working on analyzing what happens when an entire jet engine separated from the aircraft. The codes I worked with ranged from Nastran, Rasna(Mechanica), and SRAC, to Dyna and several other codes developed at Livermore National Labs.
After Boeing I moved back home to Boise and now I work at HP Inc. If you have any other questions please ask. At Boeing I was very deeply involved in the theory of FEA and CFD and I look forward to getting back into the details again.”
“My name is Jousef and I am an engineering student at KIT @Karlsruhe. In my 5th semester I delved into the subject of Dimensioning and Validation of Mechanical Constructions where I also used to apply the Finite Element Method. At the moment I am a research assistant at an institute trying to validate a CFD research code called SPARC.
My hobbies are fitness/powerlifting and of course participating at the SimScale discussions 
My membership at SimScale started at October 2013. Goals for me for SimScale: If I have enough spare time I want to open a section where we discuss turbulence and its modelling in general. I think turbulence is one of the harder subjects in engineering and requires A LOT of understanding.”
Maciej Kaczmarczyk (@Maciek)
“I’m Maciek – freelancer engineer from Poland. My main specialisation is CFD as well as the most common FE analysis. In longer term my professional goal are bidirectional FSI simulations. I also feel very strong in simulation-driven design.
My alma mater is Gdańsk University of Technology where I’ve finished MSc and PhD studies at shipbuilding faculty and post-graduated in engineering simulations at the faculty of applied physics and mathematics.
However, although I love my profession I see life beyond it and my free time is occupied by two main things: books (paper ones!) and sport.”
Congrats!