Matthieu Boudreau

Hydraulic turbine design - Fluid Mechanics at GE Vernova

Capitale-Nationale, Quebec, Canada

About

Constantly driving innovation in a high tech environment. // Strong analysis and synthesis skills, creative, passionate and leader. // More than 10 years of experience in advanced fluid mechanics. // Expertise in heat transfer, fluid-structure interaction and multiphase flows. // Fluent in French and English (oral and written).

Experience

  • Hydraulic turbine design - Fluid Mechanics at GE Vernova
    Apr 2020 - Present · 6 yrs 4 mos

    Hydraulic turbine design with CFD

  • Aero/thermal CFD analyst at Pratt & Whitney Canada
    Jan 2019 - Apr 2020 · 1 yr 4 mos

    Member of the Advanced Modeling and Simulation Group within the Fluid System department Role: - Aero/thermal expert for secondary air system and oil system - Support aero-engine programs and design with advanced modeling techniques (CFD/CHT simulations) - Technical project lead for the two-phase flow modeling in gearboxes - Direct collaboration with customers, suppliers and universities - Data analysis from experiments and simulations The simulations performed involve: - Rotating flows - Incompressible and compressible flows - Two-phase (air/oil) flows - Thermal analysis (convection, conduction, radiation)

  • Université Laval (5 yrs 10 mos)
    • Research Project Lead
      Jan 2013 - Oct 2018 · 5 yrs 10 mos

      - Grant proposal - Budget management - Project management involving 3 undergraduate research assistants, 2 graduate students and 1 research professional

    • Lecturer - Introduction to fluid mechanics
      Jan 2015 - Apr 2015 · 4 mos

      - In charge of the lectures for a mandatory course in the mechanical and physical engineering programs (193 students).

    • Teaching Assistant
      Jan 2013 - Dec 2014 · 2 yrs

      List of the courses: - Applied fluid dynamics - Introduction to aerodynamics - Engineering computing

  • Research Project Lead at University of Victoria
    Sep 2015 - Jun 2016 · 10 mos

    - Project management for the design and tests of a novel flapping-foil hydrokinetic turbine - Budget management - Mechanical design - Tests in a water channel - Data acquisition (LabVIEW), signal processing (Matlab) and uncertainty analysis - Technical writing (reports, scientific papers and best practices)

  • Technical co-director at Alérion Supermileage (www.alerionsupermileage.com)
    Sep 2009 - May 2013 · 3 yrs 9 mos

    - Design and fabrication of an eco-friendly vehicle - Surface modeling, aerodynamic optimization and fabrication of the vehicle’s shell with carbon fiber - In charge of the component integration in the vehicle - 1st place in 2010, 2011, 2013 at the Shell Eco-marathon Americas international competition and North American fuel consumption record with 1525 Km/L (2013) - 1st place in 2010, 2nd place in 2011 and 3rd place in 2013 at the SAE Supermileage international competition