REZA GHIAS

Email: ac1wgq@r.postjobfree.com

Cell: 703-***-**** https://www.linkedin.com/in/reza-ghias-27375111/ SUMMARY

Deep practical engineering knowledge and proven track record for executing projects and conducting research in aerospace, oil, steel, automotive, renewable energy, mission critical, HVAC, and manufacturing.

Highly expert in developing and implementing numerical methods such as Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) to address the engineering challenges, optimize the design, and cut the cost through practical and innovative approaches

Successful team builder and disciplined manager to drive results in projects and establish long and short range goals and objectives for business development, sales, and marketing PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Engineering Manager, Simulation Based Design, 1/2017-Present Whirlpool Corporation, Saint Joseph, MI

Provided and executed simulation roadmap and strategy to enable the platforms to achieve the product leadership

Managed and led a global team of talented engineers in using advanced simulation tools such as CFD, FEA, and optimization software to tackle thermal and structural design challenges in injection mold, electronic, packaging, sub-system and component design and manufacturing for different platforms

Interfaced with platform leads to determine project needs and priorities and developed new simulation capabilities to reduce the number of tests and prototypes

Collaborated with R&D and marketing to pursue innovation design Director, Advanced Simulation Center, 11/2014- 12/2017 Southland Industries, Sterling, VA

Managed, supported and provided direction and leadership to analyze the thermal and flow field variables in HVAC design of hospitals, stadium, hotels, labs, mission critical, and other commercial buildings to enhance the design and provide practical solutions to engineering challenges

Saved over $3 M through using CFD to diagnose and proposing a practical solution to client

Evaluated and enhanced the design to save over $500K in heating project

Collaborated in sales and business development to establish long and short rang goals and objectives

Used advanced simulation tools to award and secure design-build projects

Mercedes-Benz Stadium $100M

US Army Museum $9M

Conducted R&D to improve CFD models and accuracy of advanced engineering tools in engineering applications used in data center and equipment design Reza Ghias Page 2 of 5

Senior CFD Analyst, 04/2012- 11/2014

Southland Industries, Sterling, VA

Analyzed the thermal and flow field variables in HVAC design of Hospital, Hotel, Lab, Data Center, Casino, Atrium, Subway, Museum, and other commercial buildings to enhance the design and provide practical solutions to engineering challenges

Performed conceptual design and consulting projects to provide solution to companies with mission critical projects (e.g. Apple Inc., Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Government)

Saved over $4M in Atlanta Falcons Stadium by providing CFD results for an alternative duct design and analyzing the solar, people, lights, and monitor load on comfort level

Reduced 50% on costs by developing a workflow to expedite design process from CAD/Revit to CFD analysis

Saved $500K for company on the number of required thermal storage tanks in a data center projects by providing an innovative design through utilizing combined optimization and computational modeling approach with an error margin below 2% compared to field test results

Saved 20% on annual energy cost of a 10 MW data center project by using CFD to enhance the design and develop a smart control strategy

100% increased the team work efficiency by developing work flow guidelines to engineers Senior Technical Services Engineer, 04/2009- 04/2012 ANSYS Inc., Rockville, MD

Performed numerical simulations in Defense and commercial industries ( Aerodynamics, Heat transfer analysis, multiphase flow analysis, Under-hood design, HVAC Load balance, Filtering, Seakeeping analysis, Sloshing, Preprocessing capabilities, Impinging jet flow, Hot and cold launch of missiles, Cavitation, Vortex induced vibrations, Blast wave simulation, Store separation, Fluid structure interactions (FSI), and component design)

Kept 100% renewal rate by provided creative and innovative services to customers, in support of the group’s mission to understand, streamline, and ultimately revolutionize customers’ CFD engineering workflow processes

Increased 22% software sales under my technical support companies (e.g. BAE System, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, NASA, Naval Research Lab, Air Force, and Naval Surface warfare Center) by Contributing to marketing campaigns, business initiatives, and conducting technical presentations and discussions with client

Conducted more than 20 training and workshop sessions on ANSYS products including Fluent and Tgrid

Consulting Engineer, 11/2005- 04/2009

ANSYS/Fluent Inc., Ann Arbor, MI

Provided consulting services including writing proposals, creating meshes, performing numerical simulations, analyzing the results, and preparing reports and presentations to auto-industry and corresponding suppliers in different applications (e.g. battery cooling, fan design, under-hood, HVAC, external aerodynamics, paint spry, airbag, multiphase flow, gas vent management, etc)

Implemented Immersed Boundary (IB) method (my Doctorate Dissertation) in ANSYS 12.1 by collaborating with the development team and enhancing the capabilities and quality of ANSYS software

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Managed renewal and provided technical support to automotive and component supplier (GM, Visteon, Chrysler, Behr, and Federal Mogul)

Graduate Research Assistant, 09/2001-11/2005.

The George Washington University, Washington, DC

Developed from scratch a DNS/LES solver for simulating viscous compressible flows with complex geometries using Immersed Boundary Method (IBM) and validated the solver by comparing to experimental and numerical results

Parallelized the solver using Message-Passing Interface (MPI), executed and optimized the performance of the solver on multi-processor Linux and Unix systems (Pentium based Beowulf clusters, Alpha GS320, and IBM p69)

Simulated and evaluated the tip vortex flow of a rotor in hover and a fixed wing and compared the results to numerical and experimental data

Assisted in preparing annual technical reports for this project to the Army Research Office

Applied commercial package GRIDGEN to create grids for complex geometries and gained experience in flow visualization and animation using TECPLOT and FIELDVIEW Research and Development Engineer, 12/1999-08/2000 Research and Development Center of Vehicle Manufacturing, Tehran

Simulated external and internal turbulent flows

Established a team to research on Fuel Cell in automotive

Designed gas distribution channels for a Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) Fuel Cell Technical Design Manager, 09/1998-12/1999

Sepafil Corporation (Steel Profile and Pipe Manufacturer), Isfahan

Saved $100K for company by leading the design, installation, and startup of cold roll forming machines

Research and Development Engineer, 07/1996 - 09/1998 Renewable Energy Organization, Tehran

Designed and optimized the thermodynamic process of a liquid hydrogen cryogenic plant

Researched the production, storage and transportation of hydrogen EDUCATION

D.Sc., Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, The George Washington University, Washington, DC

Dissertation: “An Immersed Boundary Method for Compressible Flows with Application to Wing Tip Flows”(Funded by Army Research Office)

Course Concentration: Advanced CFD, Compressible Flow, Applied Finite Element Analysis, Turbulence, Convective Heat Transfer, Multi-grid Method and Parallel Computation, Propulsion, Viscous Flow

M.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, Tehran University, Tehran

Master Thesis: “Numerical Simulation of Supersonic Flow over the Blunted Cone Body” Reza Ghias Page 4 of 5

B.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, Abadan Institute of Technology (AIT), Ahwaz PUBLICATIONS/PRESENTATIONS

A. Karimi, R. Ghias, “Cooling Performance Analysis and Optimization of a Room with Radiant Panel Using CFD”, AHSRAE Paper LB-17-C060, 2017

R. Ghias, M. Koupriyanov, R. Rezaei, “CFD Validation and Optimization of Carbon Dioxide Removal Efficiency in a Displacement Ventilation”, AHSRAE Paper OR-16-C003, 2016 R. Ghias, M. Kilkeary, “CFD Design and Validation of a Thermal Storage Tank and Its Impact in a Design-Build Project”, AHSRAE Paper OR-16-C057, 2016 R. Ghias, C. Lehman, “Use of CFD to Improve the IAQ in a Natural Ventilation Design Involved with Solar Load”, AHSRAE Summer Conference Atlanta, 2015 R. Ghias, “Reducing Hazardous Fume Concentration in Industrial Workplaces by CFD Analysis”, AHSRAE Summer Conference Seattle, 2014

R. Ghias, A. Tech, “Practical Use of CFD to Address the Design Challenges and Failure Scenarios in Data Centers”, AHSRAE Winter Conference New York, 2014 R. Ghias, K. Xu, R. Ellison, and C. Eisenhower, “Use of Numerical Simulation and Optimization to Analyze the Design and Performance of a Chilled Water Storage Tank”, ASHRAE Paper DE-13-C046, 2013

R. Ghias, A. Khondge, “Implementation of Immersed Boundary Method for Rapid and Reliable External Flow Simulations in Automotive”, SAE Paper 200*-**-****, 2009 R. Ghias, S. Sovani, A. Khondge, “Flow Simulations around a Generic Ground Transportation System: Using Immersed Boundary Method”, SAE Paper 200*-**-*****, 2008 M. Bel-Hassan, A. Sardar, R. Ghias, “CFD Simulations of an Automotive HVAC Blower: Operating under Stable and Unstable Flow Conditions,” SAE Paper 200*-**-****, 2008 R. Ghias, R. Mittal, “An Immersed Boundary Method for Compressible Viscous Flows with Complex Boundaries,” Journal of Computational Physics, Vol. 225(1), pp. 228-253, 2007 R. Ghias, R. Mittal, D. Haibo, T.S. Lund, “Study of Tip-Vortex Formation Using Large-Eddy Simulation,” AIAA 2005-1280, Jan. 2005, presented at the 43rd AIAA Aerospace Science Meeting, Reno, Nevada

R. Ghias, R. Mittal, D. Haibo,T.S. Lund, “Large-Eddy Simulation of The Tip Flow of A Rotor in Hover,” AIAA 2004-2432, July 2004, presented at the 34th AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference, Portland, Oregon

R. Ghias, R. Mittal, T.S. Lund, “A Non-body Conformal Grid Method for Simulation of Compressible Flows With Complex Immersed Boundary,” AIAA 2004-0080, Jan. 2004, presented at the 42nd AIAA Aerospace Science Meeting, Reno, Nevada

COMPUTER SKILLS

Programming Languages: FORTRAN 77/90, MATLAB, C/C++, Parallel Programming MPI

Engineering Applications: GAMBIT, FLUENT, TGRID, ANSYS, CFX, SolidWorks, FIELDVIEW, GRIDGEN, AutoCAD, NASTRAN, IES, Space-Claim and Microsoft Office

Operating Systems: WINDOWS XX, UNIX, and LINUX

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PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION MEMBERSHIP

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE)

Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)

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