Walid Arsalane is a researcher in NREL’s Complex Systems Simulation and Optimization (CSSO) group with a background in computational fluid dynamics, computational structural dynamics, and structural optimization. Walid’s role in CSSO includes development and deployment of efficient environments enabling management of frameworks, applications, libraries, and software. It also includes development of algorithms for large-scale scientific computations of complex fluid flow problems. Walid is aspiring to become a leading research scientist developing novel methods to solve challenging problems through large-scale computations.

Research Interests

Numerical partial differential equations/analysis

Structural optimization

High-power charging environments

Computational fluid dynamics

Education

Ph.D., Computational Engineering, Mississippi State University

M.S., Aerospace Engineering, Mississippi State University

B.S., Aerospace Engineering, International University of Rabat

Professional Experience

Research Assistant, Mississippi State University (2017–2022)

Associations and Memberships

Member, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Member, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

Featured Work

Eigenvalue Analysis of Timoshenko Beams and Mindlin Plates with Unfitted Finite Element Methods, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Journal (2022)

Structural Sizing of Post-Buckled Thermally Stressed Stiffened Panels, Ph.D. Dissertation (2022)

Structural Sizing of Thermally Stressed Hat-Stiffened Panels, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Conference (2021)

Structural Sizing of Post-Buckled Thermally Stressed Stiffened Panel, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Conference (2020)

Eigenvalue Analysis of Timoshenko Beams and Mindlin Plates with Unfitted Finite Element Methods, M.S. Thesis (2018)

Immersed Boundary Eigenvalue Analysis of Timoshenko Beams and Mindlin Plates, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Conference (2018)