ABDULLAH ILYAS Email: abdullahilyas91@yahoo.

com
Mobile: +923215768812
Education
School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering (NUST) H-12 Islamabad, Pakistan
Master of Science (Mechanical); GPA: 3.50/4.00 September - 2020
Thesis: Reduced Order Modeling of Fluid Flow over a 2D Square Cylinder using POD Galerkin Model and Dynamic Mode
Decomposition

College of Aeronautical Engineering (NUST) Risalpur, Pakistan

Bachelor of Engineering (Aerospace); GPA: 3.16/4.00 September - 2013
Final Year Project: CFD Analysis of Micro Vortex Generators on a NACA 0012 rectangular wing using Fully Gridded Method and
Mesh Free Method (jBAY Source Term Model)

Research Interests
• Model Order Reduction of fluid flows
• Uncertainty Quantification of quantities of interest in turbulent flows
• Randomized Linear Algebra and it applications in Machine Learning
• Parallel Computing Algorithms

Experience
Government Aerospace Sector - Aircraft Store Integration Group Islamabad, Pakistan
Senior CFD Engineer October 2013 - October 2022
∗ Store Carriage Load Analysis.
∗ Aircraft Performance and Stability Analysis.
∗ Aircraft Wing Loading Analysis.
∗ Store Separation CFD Analysis.
∗ Flight Data Analysis.
∗ Management of HPC Cluster.

Projects
HPC Cluster Setup
◦ Computational Cluster setup using Microsoft HPC in Windows Environment.
◦ Computational Cluster setup using SLURM on CENTOS Linux Virtual Machines.
◦ Windows Powershell Scripting for automation of computational tasks.

Automated Work Flow for Captive Store Aerodynamic Data Generation

◦ Development of Interface b/w MATLAB and Ansys Fluent for CFD solver runs and post processing using Fluent
Journal/Scheme Programming.

Aerodynamic Model Development Tool

◦ Data Fitting in MATLAB of non uniform Aerodynamic Coefficients data from Wind Tunnel Tests/ CFD runs.

Flight Data Analysis Tool

◦ Aircraft Maneuver Identification from raw flight data.
◦ Store Aerodynamic and Inertial Load Extraction during different Aircraft Maneuvers.
◦ Aerodynamic Parameter Estimation from Flight Data.

Aircraft Transonic Flutter Analysis

◦ CFD Analysis of Fighter Aircraft in transonic regime for the evaluation of Aerodynamic influence coefficients.
◦ Extraction of Aircraft structural modes from ground vibration tests.
◦ Estimation of flutter speed by using the aerodynamic influence coefficients and aircraft modal data.

Fatigue Life Estimation of Stores and suspension units

◦ Estimation of Fatigue Load Spectrum using Aircraft Flight Test Data and Aircraft operating limits.

Ejector Force Modeling for Store Separation Analysis

◦ Estimation of ejector forces as a function of piston displacement using static ejection test data.
Trainings
Computing in Aerospace
EME Center of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Pakistan
◦ Radial Basis Function based interpolation and its applications in mesh morphing.
◦ Bayesian Optimization of black box functions.
Aeroelasticity
Bronberg Dynamics, South Africa
◦ Computational Aeroelastic Analysis using panel method as fluid solver and FEM solver for structure.
◦ Experimental Aeroelastic Analysis using modal data from ground vibration tests and panel method for fluid solver.
CFD of Turbomachinery
Air University, Pakistan
◦ Ansys ICEM CFD for meshing.
◦ Ansys CFX for CFD simulations.
◦ Ansys CFD-POST for Post processing.

Skills Summary
Technical Skills: Numeric Linear Algebra, Computational Geometry,Computational Fluid Dynamics, Turbulence Modeling,
Data Driven Modeling, Modal Analysis, Finite Element Analysis, Flight Dynamics, Algorithms, Nonlinear Dynamical systems,
Reduced Order Modeling, Theoretical Aerodynamics
Softwares/ Programming Languages: Ansys Fluent, XFlow, Ansys Workbench, CATIA, Ansys ICEM CFD, Tecplot,
MATLAB, Ansys Spaceclaim, Microsoft HPC, C/C++, Keyshot, Windows Powershell
Soft Skills: Written/Spoken English, Critical Thinking, Technical Writing, Perseverance, Time Management, Adaptability,
Resourcefulness, Creativity

References
Dr. Emad Uddin (MS Thesis Advisor)
Assisstant Professor SMME(NUST),Pakistan
Email: emaduddin@smme.nust.edu.pk
Phone: +923009564253

Dr. Imran Akhtar(MS Course Instructor)

Assisstant Professor CEME(NUST),Pakistan
Email: imran.akhtar@ceme.nust.edu.pk
Phone: +923319109992