Geotechnical engineering · scientific computing · numerical methods

I'm a PhD candidate in geotechnical engineering, with my defense pending. I develop numerical methods and scientific software for coupled flow and deformation in porous media, working with OpenFOAM's finite-volume framework.

My research connects solver analysis, implementation, and verification: understanding the coupled equations, making them work within an existing numerical framework, and checking the results against analytical solutions and manufactured tests.

Core tools: C++ / OpenFOAM, Python / DOLFINx, Git, and Linux.

I'm interested in scientific-computing and research-software positions, particularly in computational mechanics, multiphysics simulation, and numerical-method development.

• Coupled solvers: segregated Biot poromechanics, fixed-stress coupling, and Schur-complement analysis; distinguishing iterative convergence from collocated pressure-mode control.
• Verification: analytical benchmarks, mesh-refinement studies, coupling-strength tests, and explicit diagnostics of numerical behaviour.
• Interface methods: two-sided ghost-state reconstruction for porous–void cut cells, verified at component level as a building block toward Eulerian poromechanics.

An OpenFOAM/solids4Foam framework for coupled porous flow and deformation. My development fork contains work on modular pressure–mechanics coupling, hydraulic models, and convergence diagnostics.

Development branch and documentation · Upstream project at BAW

Selected contributions authored by me and merged upstream:

• Writing dictionaries with default values.
• Multi-region case workflow support.
• Initializing submesh stress from the base mesh.

An alpha research GUI for preparing, launching, and monitoring OpenFOAM-based poromechanics cases. It connects solver configuration and case setup to a guided simulation workflow; the current public version does not provide in-app post-processing.

Alongside the numerical work, I build tools for configuring and operating the systems around it:

• proxmox-notify — a Rust CLI for node-to-node state reconciliation through the Proxmox cluster filesystem.
• Quadstack — a web UI for rootless Podman Quadlets, including configuration checks, live logs, and OIDC sign-in.
• Proxnix (archived) — earlier work on host-managed NixOS LXC containers for Proxmox, with deployment tooling and secrets integration.