Mahmoud Gadalla
Combustion And CFD Expert at Wärtsilä
Espoo, Finland
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Top SchoolMahmoud Gadalla is a combustion and CFD expert with a PhD in Computational Combustion Physics and eight years' experience bridging academic research and industrial engine modeling at Wärtsilä. He specializes in turbulent sprays, reacting flows, mesh-free particle methods and reduced-order models, combining deep numerical skills from dual MSc degrees in mathematical and technical physics with practical software development for reactive flow simulations. His work spans high-fidelity engine combustion simulations, model order reduction and data-driven approaches, reflecting a strong interest in machine learning–augmented scientific computing. Based in Espoo, he brings a rare blend of theoretical rigor and hands-on implementation, having transitioned research projects at Aalto and SISSA into applied solutions for propulsion and naval hydro-acoustics.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Mechanical Engineering at Alexandria UniversityMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Technical physics; specialization advanced computational methods in material science, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Technical physics; specialization advanced computational methods in material science at Gdańsk University of TechnologyDoctor of Science - D.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, Doctor of Science - D.Sc., Mechanical Engineering at Aalto UniversityMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Industrial mathematics, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Industrial mathematics at University of HamburgMaster of Science (MSc), Mathematical modelling in enginering ingeneria matematica, Master of Science (MSc), Mathematical modelling in enginering ingeneria matematica at Università degli Studi dell'AquilaGeneral Secondary, Math Section, General Secondary, Math Section at Middle East Experimental Language School
Arabic, English, French, German, Italian
Github Skills (20)
openfoam10
iges10
eigen10
rom9
python8
load-balancing7
vtk7
scientific-machine-learning6
dmd6
data-driven6
journal4
3d4
creative-commons4
cantera4
open-access3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Aalto-CFD/DLBFoam-Advanced-Tutorials
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
Advanced combustion tutorial cases for DLBFoam library for OpenFOAM
Contributions:8 commits, 6 PRs, 5 pushes in 9 months
openfoam
Aalto-CFD/ConeCylinderInjection
May 2021 - Nov 2022
Extend OpenFOAM ConeInjection model from disc (2D) into cylinder (3D)
Contributions:12 commits, 1 PR, 6 pushes in 1 year 6 months
3dopenfoam
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