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Guillaume Brès

 

Mail Code 104-44

California Institute of Technology

1200 East California Boulevard

Pasadena, California 91125

USA

 

email: guillaume@caltech.edu

 

CV

 

 

EDUCATION______________________________________________________________________

Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (USA)

California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA

Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering (June 2005)

 

Sept 2002 - April 2007

Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering (USA)

The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA

 

Aug 2000 – June 2002

Engineering Degree of the Ecole Centrale de Lyon (France)

Ecole Centrale de Lyon, Ecully, France (General Engineering)

 

Sept 1998 – July 2000

Preparatory School (Paris, France)

Courses for the engineering colleges' national entrance examinations

 

Sept 1995 – June 1998

Secondary school (Brussels, Belgium)

 

Sept 1994 – June 1995

Primary and secondary School (Montréal, Canada)

 

 

Sept 1988 – June 1994
EXPERIENCE______________________________________________________________________

Senior Aeroacoustic Engineer, Exa Corporation

Aeroacoustic Engineer, Exa Corporation

Research and development of the PowerFLOW software suite for aeroacoustic problems in aerospace and automobile design

 

May 2009– present

July 2008 – April 2009

Scientific Consultant, Caltech

 

June 2009 – present

Postdoctorate Fellow, Caltech

Ultrasonically absorptive coatings for hypersonic laminar flow control

 

May 2007 – June 2008

Graduate Research Assistant, Caltech

Numerical simulations of three-dimensional instabilities in cavity flows

 

Sept 2002 – April 2007

Graduate Research Assistant, Penn State

Modeling of helicopter noise in maneuvering flight

 

 

Oct 2000 – June 2002

LANGUAGES______________________________________________________________________

French (native language), English (fluent)

Other: some notions of Spanish, German and Japanese

 

 

COMPUTER SKILLS________________________________________________________________

Programming languages: C, C++, Fortran 90/95, MPI

Environments: DOS, Unix, Windows

Software: Word, Excel, Tecplot, Fieldview, Matlab, Mathematica, LaTeX, PowerFLOW

 

 

PUBLICATIONS & CONFERENCE PAPERS____________________________________________

Numerical Simulations of Ultrasonic Absorptive Coatings for Hypersonic Boundary Layer Control
G.A. Brès, M. Inkman, T. Colonius & A. Fedorov

in preparation for publication dans Journal of Fluid Mechanics

 

Acoustic Analogy Formulation for Moving Source in Uniformly Moving Media
A. Najafiyazdi, G. A. Brès & L. Mongeau

submitted for publication in Proceedings of the Royal Society, London A.

 

Simulation of Trailing Edge Noise (Test Case 1) using Lattice Boltzmann Method
G.A. Brès, F. Pèrot, D. Freed & T. Keatings

submitted, Workshop BANC-1, Stockholm, Sweden (June 2010)

 

Simulation of Tandem Cylinder Flow (Test Case 2) using Lattice Boltzmann Method
G.A. Brès, T. Keating, S. Noelting & M. Wessels

submitted, Workshop BANC-1, Stockholm, Sweden (June 2010)

 

Numerical Simulations of Natural and Actuated 3D Low-Aspect-Ratio Airfoil
G. A. Brès, D. R. Williams & T. Colonius

submitted, 40th AIAA Fluid Dynamic Conf., Chicago, IL (June 2010)

 

A Ffowcs Williams – Hawkings Solver for Lattice-Boltzmann based Computational Aeroacoustics
G. A. Brès, F. Pèrot & D. Freed

accepted, 16th AIAA/CEAS Aeroacoustics Conf., Stockholm, Sweden (June 2010)

 

Tandem Cylinder Noise Predictions using Lattice Boltzmann and Ffowcs Williams – Hawkings Methods
S. Noelting, M. Wessels, T. Keating & G. A. Brès

accepted, 16th AIAA/CEAS Aeroacoustics Conf., Stockholm, Sweden (June 2010)

 

A Hybrid Lattice Boltzmann/FW-H Method to Predict Sources and Propagation of Landing Gear Noise
S. Noelting, T. Keating, P. Dethioux, G. A. Brès, T. Van de Ven & R. Vieito

accepted, 16th AIAA/CEAS Aeroacoustics Conf., Stockholm, Sweden (June 2010)

 

An Acoustic Analogy Formulation for Arbitrary Source Motion in Uniformly Moving Media
A. Najafiyazdi, L. Mongeau & G. A. Brès

accepted, 16th AIAA/CEAS Aeroacoustics Conf., Stockholm, Sweden (June 2010)

 

Acoustic Properties of Porous Coatings for Hypersonic Boundary Layer Control
G. A. Brès, T. Colonius & A. Fedorov

AIAA Journal, Vol 48 (2), pp. 267-274, 2010

 

Alternate Designs of Ultrasonic Absorptive Coatings for Hypersonic Boundary Layer Control
G. A. Brès, M. Inkman, T. Colonius & A. Fedorov

AIAA paper 2009-4217, 39th AIAA Fluid Dynamic Conference, San Antonio, TX (June 2009)

 

Properties of the Lattice Boltzmann Method for Acoustics
G. A. Brès, F. Pérot & D. Freed

AIAA paper 2009-3395, 15th AIAA/CEAS Aeroacoustics Conference, Miami, FL (May 2009)

 

A Convective Ffowcs Williams – Hawkings Solver for Aeroacoustics Predictions in Wind Tunnels
A. Najafiyazdi, L. Mongeau & G. A. Brès

CDFSC 2009-1B4, Ottawa, Canada (May 2009)

 

Stability of Temporally Evolving Supersonic Boundary Layers over Micro-Cavities for Ultrasonic Absorptive Coatings
G. A. Brès, T. Colonius & A. V. Fedorov
AIAA paper 2008-4337, 5th AIAA Theoretical Fluid Mechanics Conference, Seattle, WA (June 2008)

 

Interaction of Acoustic Disturbances with Micro-Cavities for Ultrasonic Absorptive Coatings
G. A. Brès, T. Colonius & A. V. Fedorov
AIAA paper 2008-3903, 5th AIAA Theoretical Fluid Mechanics Conference, Seattle, WA (June 2008)

 

Three-Dimensional Instabilities in Compressible Flow over Open Cavities

G. A. Brès & T. Colonius

Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 599, pp. 309-339, 2008

 

Direct Numerical Simulations of Three-Dimensional Cavity Flows

G. A. Brès & T. Colonius

AIAA paper 2007-3405, 13th AIAA/CEAS Aeroacoustics Conference, Rome, Italy (May 2007)

 

Three-Dimensional Linear Stability Analysis of Cavity Flows

G. A. Brès & T. Colonius

AIAA paper 2007-1126, 45th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, Reno, NV (January 2007)

 

A First Step Toward the Prediction of Rotorcraft Maneuver Noise

G. Perez, K.S. Brentner, G. A. Brès & H. E. Jones

Journal of the American Helicopter Society 50 (3): 230-237, July 2005

 

Maneuvering Rotorcraft Noise Prediction

G. A. Brès, K.S. Brentner, G. Perez & H. E. Jones

Journal of Sound and Vibration 275 (3-5): 719-738, August 2004

 

Toward a Better Understanding of Maneuvering Rotorcraft Noise

G. Perez, K.S. Brentner, G. A. Brès & H. E. Jones

Proceeding Vol. 2, pp. 1552-1562, AHS 58th annual forum, Montréal, Canada (June 2002)

 

Maneuvering Rotorcraft Noise Prediction: A New Code for a New Problem

K.S. Brentner, G. A. Brès, G. Perez & H.E. Jones

AHS Aerodynamics, Acoustic and Test Evaluation Meeting, San Francisco, CA (January 2002)

 

 

 

Last update: January 2010

   

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