Independent project · Sep 2023 – Feb 2025
Designed in SolidWorks and built by hand in the school workshop: an open-circuit low-speed tunnel with a 30 × 30 cm transparent test section, settling chamber, flow straighteners and turbulence-reduction screens — built to measure how flap deployment shifts the stall point of a Boeing 737-NG-style wing. Written up as my IB Physics Extended Essay (graded B).
Data plateWind tunnel · 2024
A 2-axis force balance (lift + drag) from two HX711-amplified load cells read by an Arduino Nano (C++), with a motorised angle-of-attack drive — calibrated against known masses before every configuration change.
Interchangeable flaps at 0°/20°/40° replicating cruise, take-off and landing; angle of attack swept 0–25°, three trials per configuration, ~70–90 data points per run; stall angles cross-checked on video.
The critical angle of attack moved from ~15° (clean) to ~20° (20° flaps) and ~25° (full flaps), with ~20% higher peak lift — consistent with published NASA/AIAA data across a ~30-source literature review.
2023 · School workshop
My own 4-metre tunnel — designed in SolidWorks, built by hand, instrumented with an Arduino.
2026 · TU Eindhoven
Research assistant in the TU/e Wind Tunnel Laboratory — supporting experiments and bringing a six-component force balance back into service.
TU/e Wind Tunnel Laboratory · Jan 2026 – present
Returning a 1995 TNO six-component force balance to measurement service in the TU/e wind tunnel lab, paired with a modern HBM QuantumX MX430B data-acquisition system.
Diagnosed a systematic 50% sensitivity error in the load-cell chain through structured electrical, mechanical and software troubleshooting.
Designed and executed a 43-run calibration campaign following NASA-published balance-calibration methodology, using lab-grade masses.
Least-squares calibration-matrix fit in Python; accuracy figures and the formal calibration report are in progress.
Clearwings, Eindhoven · Mechanical engineering intern · Sep 2025 – present
Clearwings develops electric retrofit systems that convert existing aircraft to battery-electric propulsion. I redesigned the Cessna 150 cockpit panel to host the new electric-propulsion avionics, ahead of the company’s first experimental flight — from 3D scan to flight-ready aluminium hardware, within sub-millimetre tolerances, across 5+ prototypes.
Recovered missing CAD geometry by 3D-scanning the existing cockpit and rebuilding it in SolidWorks.
Delivered the panel as a flight-ready component within sub-millimetre tolerances.
5+ aluminium prototypes to resolve mounting and alignment issues, integrating the new displays and controls for a repeatable installation on the aircraft.
TU/e 4RC30 Introduction to CFD (elective) · Team of 3 · 2026
Course project simulating three heat-generating electronic components in a 2D turbulent air cooling channel (Re 10,000–20,000) with a transient SIMPLE finite-volume solver, standard k-ε turbulence with wall functions, and conjugate heat transfer.
Two-stage approach — volumetric heat-source model first, then conjugate heat transfer with flow blockage, no-slip component surfaces and internal conduction in the aluminium parts; verified with grid-sensitivity studies and mass/energy balance checks (imbalances below 0.03%).
Raising inlet velocity from 0.5 to 2.0 m/s cut the hot-spot temperature by ~71 K at a ~6× pressure-drop penalty; staggered component layouts reduced peak temperature by up to ~22 K.
Running additional simulations, generating several of the result figures, and report integration (symbols list, assembly, editing). Solver development was led by a teammate.
Tool chest