Aerodynamics and Fluid Simulation
AirfoilLab
A browser airfoil simulator for lift, drag and moment, and a study of how AI tools change the way an engineering project is developed.
- JavaScript
- WebGL2
- Node.js
- Playwright
- Python
Projects
Things built, measured and explained
Work from 2022 to today: university coursework, projects of my own and a high-school research project. Each page says which it is, who it was done with, and what my part was.
Mechanical Design and CAD
Beechcraft Bonanza A36 in SolidWorks
A personal CAD project: the whole fuselage of a Beechcraft Bonanza A36 modelled in SolidWorks, with a working nose landing gear that retracts into it.
- SolidWorks
Electronics and Control
Drone iron bird on Arduino
A test bench that reproduces the internal systems of a drone on an Arduino Mega: sensors, motor control with a safety switch, power monitoring, a stabilised mode, collision avoidance and a telemetry display.
- Arduino Mega 2560
- C++ (Arduino)
Air Navigation and Air Traffic Management
Sector entries and demand
Software that works out when each flight enters each airspace sector over a day of traffic, and flags sectors where demand exceeds declared capacity.
- Python
- Shapely
- NumPy
- pytest
- Git
Air Navigation and Air Traffic Management
Sectorization of the Barcelona FIR
Genetic algorithms and Voronoi diagrams used to split the Barcelona flight information region into sectors with balanced controller workload.
- MATLAB
- Global Optimization Toolbox
Air Navigation and Air Traffic Management
Arrival management at Vienna under reduced capacity
A modelled capacity drop at Vienna airport, used to compare ground delay and ground holding programmes on delay, emissions, cost and fairness.
- MATLAB
- Optimization Toolbox
- Excel
Electronics and Control
Tilt measurement and alarm prototype
An ADXL335 and Arduino prototype that detects lateral tilt from the vertical-axis acceleration and switches on a DC motor and warning LEDs past a threshold.
- Arduino UNO
- Arduino IDE
- Proteus
- LabVIEW
Aerodynamics and Fluid Simulation
Inviscid flow around bodies
A finite-difference stream-function solver for steady, inviscid 2D flow around cylinders, airfoils and arbitrary shapes.
- Python
- NumPy
- Numba
- SciPy
- Matplotlib
Experimental Research
The Magic of Sound: acoustic levitation
A single-axis acoustic levitator used to measure the speed of sound from the spacing of standing-wave nodes, at 20 °C and at 4 °C.
- Arduino Nano
- Logger Pro