Cenaero
Paul Carrico is a Research Engineer at Cenaero since January 2022, specializing in numerical developments for space and aeronautic environments, including fragmentation code development for spacecrafts during atmospheric re-entry and crack propagation modeling in turbomachinery using the XFEM method. Prior experience includes serving as an FEA and material expert Engineer at AUXITROL WESTON from October 2002 to December 2021, where Paul was responsible for finite element analyses, fracture mechanics using NASGRO solver, and collaboration with ISMANS university on Finite Elements topics. Paul has also worked as a Mechanical Engineer contractor for various companies and completed military service. Education includes an Engineer Diploma in Mechanical Engineering from Université de Technologie de Compiègne and training as an International Welding Engineer from Institut de soudure.
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Cenaero
Cenaero is a private non-profit applied research center and provides to companies involved in a technology innovation process numerical simulation methods and tools to invent and design more competitive products. Internationally recognized, Cenaero is mainly active in the fields of aeronautical design, spacecrafts, manufacturing processes, and buildings and smart cities. Cenaero provides expertise and engineering services for high performance composites, optimization and uncertainty quantification, multidisciplinary topology optimization, metallic manufacturing processes modeling, high resolution computational fluid dynamics, hypersonic flows and ablative materials, thermo-fluid processes and systems modeling, turbomachinery design, and high performance computing. Cenaero also provides software through its massively parallel multi-physics platform Argo, its manufacturing process simulation and crack propagation platform Morfeo and its design space exploration and optimization platform Minamo. Cenaero operates a high performance computing infrastructure (14,000 computing cores, tier1.cenaero.be/en) for fundamental, applied and industrial research. Cenaero is certified against the EN 9100:2018 and ISO 9001:2015 standards.