Peter Ireland

Peter Ireland has worked in various roles across a range of companies since 2006. At Eaton Corporation, they were a Cooperative Education Student, where they designed components for hydraulic pumps and wrote extensive documentation for component testing and qualification. From 2007 to 2008, they were a Research Assistant at Mississippi State University, where they researched new algorithms to simulate compressible and unsteady flows and generated grids for computational simulations. In 2008, they were a Research Assistant at Technische Universität Darmstadt, where they performed experiments of droplet impact and verified experimental results using computational fluid dynamics. From 2009 to 2014, they were a PhD, NSF Graduate Research Fellow at Cornell University, where they created a massively parallel code for particle-laden turbulence, performed and analyzed simulations with 8 billion grid points and 3 billion particles, and carried out large-scale parallel visualizations of simulation data. From 2014 to 2016, they were a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Cornell University, where they wrote CFD code to simulate droplet breakup in supersonic flows for scramjet propulsion, developed and validated numerical methods for coupled fluid-particle systems, and performed DNS simulations to generate closures for RANS models. Since 2016, they have been at ICON Technology & Process Consulting, where they have held roles as a Line Manager/Software & Methods Developer/Consulting CFD Engineer, a Consulting CFD Engineer/Software & Methods Developer, and a Consulting CFD Engineer. In 2021, they began working at WindESCo as an Analytics Engineer/Technical Lead, where they are building tools to maximize farm performance through cutting-edge collective control strategies and providing guidance to software engineers to ensure projects remain on schedule.

Peter Ireland's education history includes a PhD Candidate degree in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University from 2009 to 2014, a Master of Science (MS) degree in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University from 2009 to 2012, and a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree in Mechanical Engineering from Mississippi State University from 2004 to 2008.