Nolan Dyck
Engineering Analyst at BWXT Canada Ltd
Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolNolan Dyck is an engineering analyst and CFD specialist with a decade of hands-on experience solving challenging thermo-hydraulic and fluid mechanics problems across academia, industry, and startups. Currently at BWXT Canada and serving as CTO of Maple Key Labs, he combines deep theoretical work from his PhD—new analytical solutions for Navier–Stokes and vortex tube energy-transfer studies—with practical skills in OpenFOAM, ANSYS CFX, Python tooling, and AWS-driven large-scale parametric studies. He has a track record of turning research into applied solutions (including a meshing tool that avoided a $15,000 license and porous-media modelling used to derive transport properties) and communicates complex simulation results clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders. Intrinsically motivated and most effective in small, focused teams, Nolan excels at bridging numerical research and production engineering to push computational boundaries.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mechanical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mechanical Engineering at Western UniversityBachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Mechanical Engineering at University of Waterloo
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Github Skills (69)
openfoam10
mesh9
linux9
python9
cmake9
windows9
box2d9
visual-studio9
spider9
cpp9
matplotlib9
topology9
swig9
c-library9
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
NauticalMile64/ofblockmeshdicthelper
Jun 2018 - Feb 2021
Helper utilities for OpenFOAM blockMeshDict generation.
Contributions:90 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
openfoam
NauticalMile64/SVPGen_and_Rad
Mar 2016 - Jun 2021
Contributions:9 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 4 months
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