Grace Lima

I am an experienced Aeronautical Engineer with more than 15 years of Aerospace and Defense Industry working with Applied Aerodynamics and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). I hold an Aeronautical Engineering Degree and also a Master in Science Degree from Instituto Tecnologico de Aeronautica (ITA). My experience ranges from Wind Tunnel Testing and Aerodynamic Databank modeling to CFD simulation and analysis of external aerodynamics to support engineering decision process. Also, during the last 6 years of my career, I have worked in R&D projects regarding the structural flexibility effects in aerodynamics behaviour.

Technical Skills:
Applied Aerodynamics, Aerodynamic Databank for 6DoF Model, Passive Flow Control Devices, Wind Tunnel Testing, Analysis of Wind Tunnel Tests results and data reduction, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Mesh Generation, Post-Processing and Analysis of CFD Results.

Software skills:
CFD solvers: CFD++, AERO Suite, BLWF; Mesh generation: ANSA, ICEMCFD; Post-processing tools: Tecplot, Ensight; CAD commercial packages: CATIAv5 (expert); Programming languages:
Python, Linux Shell script;