Engineer Mechanical Engineering
Resume:
KWASI FOLI
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Greer, SC 29650 ac0tt6@r.postjobfree.com
PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
Senior Mechanical Engineer that is a subject matter expert in Computational Fluid Dynamics with specialties in Gas Turbine Combustion (Aerospace and Industrial); Turbulent Reacting and Non- Reacting Flows (including surface reactions) using RANS, URANS and LES; Single- and Multi- phase Flows; Atomization and Spray Formation. Skilled in simulation of transport processes in polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cells and also chemical vapor deposition (CVD). Very knowledgeable in the use of commercial CFD codes such as ANSYS Fluent and CFD-ACE. Experienced in UNIX/LINUX environment as well as HPC. INDUSTRIAL AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Woodward, Inc. (Turbine Combustion Systems), Greenville, SC 2011 – 2017 Senior Staff Engineer
Duties and accomplishments included the Application of CFD to the following processes:
Design and optimization of (liquid & gas) Injectors.
RANS and URANS simulation Aerospace & Industrial Gas turbine combustion (gas and liquid fuels).
URANS simulation of Atomization and Spray formation in fuel nozzles for Aerospace and Industrial Gas turbines.
Multiphase Flow using RANS and URANS.
Igniters for aircraft engines.
Combustion Science & Engineering, Inc., Columbia, MD 2008 – 2010 Principal Engineer
Duties and accomplishments included:
CFD simulation of combustion instabilities (with URANS and LES) in lean premixed combustors.
(U)RANS and LES simulation of premixed combustion in complex geometries such as gas turbine combustors, augmentors, etc.
Simulation of reaction and heat transfer in thermal management systems at supercritical conditions (SCRAMJETs, etc.).
Simulation of multiphase flows.
Principal Investigator of Air Force Research Laboratory ($750k) Project on Multiphase Phenomena in Thermal Management Systems.
SunEdison, Pasadena, TX 2006 – 2008
Senior Reactor Engineer
Duties and accomplishments included:
CFD simulation of chemical reaction in dense multiphase, multi-component flows.
CFD simulation of the transport processes involved in the production of granular polysilicon:
o CFD modeling of chemical vapor deposition (CVD) of silane gas on granular silicon seeds.
o Used CFD to improve reactor life by 30%.
Sartorius AG, Goettingen, Germany 2004 – 2006
Lead Engineer
Managed all process and CFD simulation activities. Group leader in charge of high temperature PEM Fuel cell design.
Heat, mass transfer and fluid mechanics analyses of complex processes.
CFD modeling of high temperature PEM fuel cells for domestic applications.
Optimization of flow passages and temperature distribution in cells, catalyst loading, thickness and distribution.
Honda Research Institute, Columbus, OH 2000 - 2004 Principal Engineer
CFD Modeling of reactive and non-reactive flows in fuel cell systems, catalytic surface reactions mostly in micro-scale fuel cell geometries.
Heat and mass transfer, fluid mechanics and thermodynamics analyses of complex processes.
Process simulations using Aspen Engineering Suite products such as Aspen Plus and Aspen Dynamics.
EDUCATION
Dr.-Ing. - Mechanical Engineering (Doctor of Engineering) Dipl.-Ing - Mechanical Engineering (Master of Science) Rheinisch-Westfaelische Technische Hochschule (RWTH), Aachen, Germany Bachelor of Science Mechanical Engineering with honors University of Science and Technology, Ghana
PATENTS
US Patent7,059,396: System for configuring the geometric parameters for a micro channel heat exchanger and micro channel heat exchangers configured thereby.
(Co-Inventor)
US Patent 8,404,206: Methods for producing polycrystalline silicon that reduce the deposition of silicon on reactor walls.
US Patent 8,728,574: Methods for introducing a first gas and a second gas into a reaction chamber
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) The Combustion Institute
CITIZENSHIP
US
LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY
English, German
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Foli, K., (2010) “Optimization of the Membrane-Electrode-Assembly of the PEM Fuel Cell”, 2010 AIChE Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT Nov. 7-12. Foli, K., (2009), "Optimization of the PEM Fuel Cell Catalyst Layer: An Analytical Approach" ECS Transactions - Fuel Cell Testing & Modeling, Vol. 26: 19-30. Gokulakrishnan, P., Foli, K., Klassen, M., Roby, R., Soteriou, M., Kiel, B., Sekar, B., (2009)
“LES-PDF Modeling of Flame Instability and Blow-out in Bluff-Body Stabilized Flames”, AIAA- 2009-5409, 45th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit, Denver, Colorado, Aug. 2-5, 2009
Kwasi Foli, Tatsuya Okabe, Markus Olhofer, Yaochu Jin and Bernhard Sendhoff, (2006),
“Optimization of Micro Heat Exchanger: CFD, Analytical Approach and Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms”’ Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer, Vol. 49 (5-6): 1090-1099. Tatsuya Okabe, Kwasi Foli, Markus Olhofer, Yaochu Jin, Bernhard Sendhoff, (2003),
“Comparative Studies on Micro Heat Exchanger Optimization”. In Proceedings of the 2003 Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC2003), Vol. 1 pp 647-654, IEEE Press, Canberra, Australia, Dec. 2003
Smoot, L.D., Boardman, R.D., Brewster, B.S., Hill, S.C., Foli, A.K., (1993), “Development and Application of an Acid Rain Precursor Model to Practical Furnaces” Energy & Fuels, 7 (6): 786- 795.
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