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.
10 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 (79)
solver10
fluid10
sem10
spectral10
snl-applications8
chimera8
fluid-dynamics8
computational-fluid-dynamics8
hpc8
post-processing7
mpi4py7
shell7
distributions7
sensitivity-analysis7
mpi7
Programming languages (7)
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/Nek5000
Apr 2020 - Sep 2023
Nek5000 version for nekStab
Contributions:17 PRs, 26 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 6 months
nek5000
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