About

I'm Enrique Dios, an engineer who is obsessed with aerodynamics, and this website is my best try to explain them, little by little, in plain terms. Some people believe aerodynamics are incredibly hard to understand, so my goal is to prove them wrong. If explained with patience, small steps, and digesting the mathematics involved, they are actually somewhat intuitive. I also wanted to keep a digital portfolio of my projects, and conduct some review of literature I find interesting on a weekly basis. My contact information is at the bottom and I would be more than happy to explain or discuss anything you find here. I am nothing more than a recent graduate and I don't claim to be an expert. I am on my way to being one and that takes time and (possibly) mistakes.

My academic background includes a bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering, a master's degree in motorsports engineering, and a master's degree in aeronautical engineering. Through all these, aerodynamics have always caught my attention the most. Although the first job I landed was in materials science, I managed to change departments from experiment automation into developing a CFD model, and I finally got my first job as an aerodynamicist and CFD engineer some months ago.

I have always believed that the most advanced aerodynamics are found in military aircraft and in Formula 1. Military aircraft, such as fighter jets, are not tied to as many constraints as their civil counterparts, which allows them to strive for performance. Formula 1, although operating in a more subsonic regime, shares the high stakes, and small aerodynamic details very often determine if a car is dominant. I now work as an aerodynamics and CFD engineer for an Airbus military aircraft, and my dream job is to do the same tasks in a Formula 1 team.

Finally, the name of the page is a nod to the von Kármán vortex street: the regular, alternating pattern of swirls that peels off a bluff body in a flow. It captivated me in my first course in Fluid Mechanics and I owe to it a great part of the academic interests and decisions that followed.

Tools I have worked with:

CFD solvers: Ansys Fluent, STAR-CCM+, SU2, XFlow, OpenFOAM, SimScale.
CAD: CATIA V5, SolidWorks, FreeCAD.
Automation & analysis: Python, MATLAB & Simulink, ParaView.

You can reach me at enriquedioslazaro@gmail.com, or find me on LinkedIn.