Ricardo Frantz
Postdoctoral Scientist at EPFL
Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
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Top SchoolRicardo Frantz is a postdoctoral scientist based in Lausanne with a decade of experience in high-performance computing and computational fluid dynamics, specializing in compressible flows, aeroacoustics, and instability analysis. He develops high-order finite-difference solvers and HPC-ready numerical tools—often integrating Python-to-Fortran code generation and automatic differentiation—to probe low-frequency dynamics, transition to turbulence, and tonal noise mechanisms. His work spans academic collaborations with EPFL, Arts et Métiers and Sorbonne Université, and industry-funded projects (DGAC/Airbus) where he combines eigenvalue analysis, spectral POD and bespoke code-generation to enable discrete linear-operator access. Comfortable at the intersection of theory and production-grade software, he brings both deep numerical-methods expertise and practical experience in building multi-block, high-fidelity simulation pipelines.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor's degree Mechanical Engineering at Loughborough UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Mechanical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Mechanical Engineering at Arts et Métiers - École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts et MétiersMaster's degree Materials Engineering, Master's degree Materials Engineering at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul
German, Spanish, English, Portuguese
Github Skills (60)
fluid10
sem10
git-workflow10
spectral10
agentic9
solver9
hpc9
mpi9
snl-applications9
sensitivity-analysis9
computational-fluid-dynamics8
ai8
dmd8
fortran8
post-processing8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
xcompact3d/Old_Incompact3d
Aug 2015 - Mar 2018
Contributions:1 release, 8 commits, 4 PRs in 2 years 7 months
latest-version
nekStab/nekStab
Feb 2023 - Jun 2026
Stability, bifurcation, and sensitivity analysis for Nek5000
Contributions:1 release, 5 PRs, 142 pushes in 3 years 5 months
stability-analysisperiodic-orbitssensitivity-analysisbaseflow-computationeigenvalue-problem
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