Dr. Alexandre Pequeno Antunes

Chief Engineering Department Management of the quality and maturity of the aerodynamic analyses in the respective aeronautical departments of the company.

Laminar Flow Project - Research & Development Department Management of the aerodynamic package of the project; Establishment of the cooperation agreement between renamed research institutions and the aerodynamic group of the project; Management of the working activities towards the development of numerical tools and their integration into designing environments to perform optimization studies. Participation in wind tunnel experiments to measure transition location of designed profiles.

EcoDemonstrator - Research & Development Department Execution of Embraer's aerodynamic working activities to test a boundary layer system device together with The Boeing Company and Cal Poly University; Accomplishment of the numerical simulations, responsible for the interface with the flight test engineers to define the flight schedule and execution of the comparison with the experimental data acquired during the conduction of the planned flight tests.

MDO Group - Research & Development Department - Project Manager Management of the administrative and technical scope of the project; Integration of different engineering processes into multi-disciplinary design and optimization frameworks; Evaluation of different optimization methods when employed in stiff aeronautical problems; Evaluation of employment of surrogate models and the implementation of an in-house optimization algorithms(GA) and a Neural Networks.

CFD Group - Advanced Design Department - Product Development Engineer Execution of numerical simulations for conceptual aircraft from the department; Evaluation of the adverse effect from the propulsion system in the aerodynamic of the wing; Development of codes and scripts to integrate different conceptual tools; Generate aerodynamic data for the applied aerodynamic team; Support the environmental group regarding the aerodynamic calibration for icing analysis and sensor positioning.

CFD Group - Air Management System Department (Product Development Engineer) Execution of numerical simulations to compute the ice accretion and perform the aerodynamic calibration for icing wind tunnel campaigns; Attend artificial icing flight campaigns; Participation in internal developments with respect to icing pool of tools; Execution of numerical simulation for the internal components from the air-conditioning system.

CFD Group - Aeronautics Department - Product Development Engineer Execution of numerical simulations for different aircraft components during the designing phases ; Participation in the design of the high-lift devices (shape and positioning); Support aerodynamic database for applied aerodynamic group; Support to aerodynamic calibration process for icing wind tunnel campaigns.

Computer Science doctorate - Thesis Title: "Development of An Open Optimization Framework for Aeronautical Applications"

Aeronautical and Mechanical Engineering Master's Degree - Manuscript Title: "Simulation of Aerodynamic Flows Using Overset Meshes"

Mechanical engineering with energy and fluids emphasis.