Timo Van Opstal

Experience

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  EADS

  Oct 2007 - Jan 2008

  Intern

  Internship in Munich at "Innovation Works", the corporate research dept. of EADS. Worked on processing and analysis of wind tunnel data and implementation of boundary conditions for aero acoustics. Joined a German student union during this period.

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  DUTRacing team '08-'09

  Feb 2008 - Jun 2008

  Production Assistant

  Parts manufacture for a racing car which won 1st and 2nd prizes at the Formula Student competitions at Hockenheim and Silverstone, resp. Activities included milling, lathing and lay-up.

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  Peutz B.V.

  Apr 2009 - Jul 2009

  Assistant consultant

  Developing procedures and policy for safety at a sea transport company.

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  Eindhoven University of Technology

  Sept 2009 - Dec 2013

  Ph.D. candidate

  Development of numerical methods for simulation of airbag deployment. This project involved developing a suitable method for the complex-folded initial stowed airbag, where slender domains, large displacements and pervading self-contact modes prevent use of other state-of-the-art techniques. The multiscale approach involved usage of the finite element method and boundary element method. An up-to-date publication list is available on the website (link below).

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  Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences (ICES)

  Aug 2012 - Nov 2012

  Visiting researcher

  Collaboration with Dr. Prudhomme and others on goal-oriented model adaptivity. The project involved model adaptivity for Stokes and Navier-Stokes for viscous incompressible flow in the context of the Ph.D. project. Alongside this, a model adaptive approach was devised for blending methods, such as the Arlequin method.

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  NTNU

  Feb 2014 - Apr 2017

  Postdoctoral Researcher

  See above, joint position at SINTEF/NTNU

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  SINTEF

  Feb 2014 - Apr 2017

  Postdoctoral Researcher

  In the search for clean energy sources, wind energy an important alternative. Toincrease power output, wind turbines are installed offshore and with large rotor diameters of up to 200m. Focus is on the development of a software package for robust simulation of high Reynolds number flow around turbine blades. In conjunction, I am studying and developing (isogeometric) discretizations for (turbulent) incompressible flow.

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  University of California, San Diego

  Aug 2015 - Oct 2015

  Visiting Scholar

  Collaborative work with prof. Y. Bazilevs on developing a structure-preserving variational multiscale method for the simulation of incompressible turbulent flow. The method distinguishes itself from many other turbulence models in that it inherits many of the conservation properties of the exact problem, avoids heuristics of parameter selection, and switches off automatically where all features are resolved. We have observed superior accuracy per degree-of-freedom.

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  Sioux LIME

  May 2017 - Oct 2020

  • Senior Mathware Engineer

    Jan 2020 - Oct 2020

  • Mathware Engineer

    May 2017 - Dec 2019
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  Sioux Technologies

  Oct 2020 - now

  Sioux Technologies is a global technology partner that supports or acts as the R&D department for high-tech companies. Sioux has all the expertise in-house to contribute to the success of high-tech products and production systems. Sioux's strength lies in its unique combination of high-quality competences in software, mathware, mechatronics, electronics and assembly. Sioux likes to take responsibility: from thinking along in the concept phase to supplying series production. Together with its customers, Sioux wants to add value and build innovative solutions that can contribute to a society that is smarter, safer, healthier, more pleasant and sustainable. www.sioux.eu Show less

  • Mathware Architect

    Oct 2021 - now

  • Senior Mathware Engineer

    Oct 2020 - Sept 2021
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  Eindhoven University of Technology

  Mar 2021 - now

  Hybrid Teacher