Dr. Manuel Fluck

Consulting in system engineering for marine and aerospace industries. Advancing team and project management competences. Gathering experience in airworthiness and certification.

An outreach and knowledge mobilization project at IESVic. Designed a hands-on educational table-top game and workshop to increase energy literacy. I managed the development, ran workshops, lead the sale of several games (to Max Planck Institute, University of Manitoba, Manitoba Hydro), and acquired funding for further development by other students.

A six-month project supported by NSERC Engage: concept development, testing, and evaluation of unconventional kite systems as auxiliary propulsion for ships.

A startup providing new anti-fouling technology for ship hulls - discontinued due to other commitments.

Design engineer for driving resistance simulation of trucks and under-hood theromo-fluid simulation for engine heat management.

R&D in aero- and hydrodynamics for 50plusX, a high-speed sailing craft. Set up a Velocity Prediction Program (VPP) for a foiling trimaran. Conducted design study on the hydrodynamics of cavitating hydrofoils.

Part time position. Supported projects in Quality Management, Supplier Support Management, Product Design.

Developed an aerodynamic model (extended lifting line formulation) to compute the load distribution on two interacting yacht sails. Designed and build thin, rigid, model sails with ~100 pressure taps for wind tunnel tests. Conducted analytical modeling and ran wind tunnel experiments.

Research assistant on biomimetic soft cloth morphing wing structures: part design, experiments and simulation of fluid structure interaction.

Design of robot parts for contact-free production line handling.

Pre and post-processing for FEM calculations in automotive development.

Developing stochastic models for the analysis of long-term aerodynamic loads on wind turbine blades.

sail aerodynamics.

naval hydrodynamics.

Gas dynamics, French language.

flow physics, lightweight structures.