Alexander Coyle

- Private tutoring for high school students across all levels of mathematics, teaching concepts and study methods - Provided preparation for and review of examinations

- Performed and analysed aerodynamic simulations of helicopter rotors in multiple flight scenarios using two CFD solvers - Evaluated the use of these solvers in comparison to other simulation tools over multiple criteria

- Co-lead tutorials and provided guidance for work groups of students learning compressible aerodynamics, discretisation and computational fluid dynamics - Marked all weekly assignments and major assignment, including analytical calculations and Ansys simulations, providing feedback for students

- Extended and refined image processing software to develop a reliable tool for the detection and tracking of markers on helicopters during flight tests - Researched, integrated and tuned image processing methods - Produced and documented a workflow including the image processing tool and a triangulation code to successfully extract the helicopter coordinates from a series of images

- Tutoring in mathematics and physics for high school students at a tutoring centre

Thesis: Aerodynamic Simulations of a Helicopter Rotor Using an Iterative Greedy Multiscale Radial Basis Function Mesh Deformation Method - Developed a mesh deformation method from concept and mathematics to integration of optimised, parallelised code into an in-house CFD solver - Evaluated the performance of two solvers for helicopter rotor aerodynamics against experimental data and other simulation tools, and analysed interactions between numerical methods and flow physics

Graduated with first-class honours Honours thesis: Numerical Simulation of Heat Transfer and Flow Physics in a Compact Heat Exchanger - Specialisation in aerodynamics and aircraft structures, learning underlying physics, analytical calculations, simulation tools including CFD and FEA, programming and CAD tools