Jeff Heylmun
Research Development Lead at Synthetik Applied Technologies
Ames, Iowa, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJeff Heylmun is a Research Development Lead with a decade of experience building high-fidelity multiphase and compressible flow simulation tools, currently leading development of blastFoam—an open-source energetic materials solver based on OpenFOAM. He holds a Ph.D. in Computational Fluid Dynamics from Iowa State and has a strong track record in quadrature-based moment methods, bubbly and particulate flow modeling, immersed boundary methods, and population balance solvers. At Iowa State he architected and extended the OpenQBMM multiphase framework and contributed advanced Riemann solvers and kinetic theories for reacting systems. Jeff blends deep academic rigor with practical software engineering to deliver production-ready, user-focused CFD tools, and is based in Ames, Iowa. An engineer who moves fluid mechanics from theory to open-source practice, he often focuses on usability and extensibility that make complex models accessible to other researchers and engineers.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational Fluid Dynamics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computational Fluid Dynamics at Iowa State UniversityBatavia High School
Github Skills (6)
solver10
computational-fluid-dynamics9
openfoam8
co-simulation8
adapter8
foundation2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
synthetik-technologies/blastfoam
Apr 2020 - Sep 2022
A CFD solver for multi-component compressible flow with application to high-explosive detonation, explosive safety and air blast
Contributions:1182 commits, 4 PRs, 51 pushes in 2 years 6 months
cfdcompressible-flowsolvercompressibleair
jheylmun/OpenFOAM-dev
Oct 2017 - Sep 2019
Contributions:36 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 11 months
openfoamfoundation
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