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Engineering consulting · Automotive, motorsport, industrial

CFD and structural simulation that agrees with your test data.

I build the CFD, FEA and mechanical design models behind your next decision, and correlate them against bench, dyno or track measurements before you rely on them.

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LMP1-style car at 180 km/h. Scale-resolving CFD (IDDES): instantaneous vortex structures, coloured by flow speed.

855 m/s

Where I can help

Which of these is your problem?

“Our simulation and our test data disagree.”

Rear wing: aero efficiency 2.7 → 4.1, −15% drag

CFD Consulting

“This part has to lose weight without losing margin.”

Differential sprocket: −22% mass at 1.4 min safety factor

Structural Analysis (FEA) & Optimization

“It has to be manufacturable and affordable, not just correct.”

Topology-optimized geometry translated into a buildable, cost-effective part

Mechanical Design

“Combustion, hybrid, or aftertreatment systems need calibrating.”

Intake manifold: +16% peak power, 108% volumetric efficiency

Powertrain & Systems Engineering
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The simulation above

What's running at the top of this page

An LMP1-style car at 180 km/h, solved with a scale-resolving method that resolves the turbulence instead of averaging it away. The shapes are vortices at one instant; the colour is local flow speed.

The same workflow runs on client projects: geometry clean-up, meshing, solver set-up, and a straight answer on what the result is worth.

CFD Consulting
mesh cells
4.3 M
km/h freestream
180
of real flow in the loop
0.1 s
Method
IDDES (hybrid RANS–LES), k-ω SST
Solver
OpenFOAM v2412
Boundary conditions
Moving ground, rotating wheels, half model mirrored
Shown
Q-criterion iso-surface (Q·L²/U² = 433), coloured by flow speed, 8–55 m/s
Playback
101 instants, 1 ms apart, at 20 frames per second: 50× slower than real time
Not claimed
Validation against measurement, or force coefficients, for this run

Case studies

Selected projects

Each one leads with the number it moved.

Turbocharger compressor render
CFDOptimizationPowertrain

Centrifugal Compressor Modeling: Accuracy vs. Compute Time

Four-tier simulation framework benchmarked against bench-tested turbo data

A framework comparing four levels of CFD complexity for turbocharger compressor design, benchmarked against real bench data.

Chinese F1 Grand Prix circuit
CFDMachine LearningAerodynamics

High-Fidelity Wind Correction for Motorsport Aero Maps

CFD + deep neural network surrogate for real-time, site-specific wind correction

A CFD-trained neural network that turns single-point weather station data into a full wind-velocity field across a circuit.

Aerodynamic CFD simulation of a Formula Student rear wing
CFDAerodynamicsVehicle Dynamics

Rear Wing Redesign: Closing the Sim-to-Track Gap

Aero efficiency 2.7 → 4.1, −15% drag, +45% max downforce (DRS active)

Telemetry-driven CFD investigation that found a boundary-layer detachment full-car simulation had missed, leading to a redesigned rear wing.

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Gerson Neves

Who you would be working with

Hi, I'm Gerson Neves.

A mechatronic and automotive engineer working across CFD, FEA and powertrain systems. Currently on production ECM controls; before that, directing a simulation department and running motorsport aerodynamics.

More about me

Where it started

Formula SAE

Actively participated in six Formula SAE competitions, in Brazil and the US, contributing to two Brazilian overall championships among other accomplishments. Managed powertrain, cost, and manufacturing projects, also contributing to aerodynamics, chassis, suspension, and brakes team projects and trainings.

2Formula SAE BRASIL Overall
5SAE Best Powertrain Design
2Formula SAE BRASIL Cost and Manufacturing award
28Total prizes
FEVBest Powertrain Award
  • 20151st

    Formula SAE BRASIL Overall

  • 20151st

    SAE Best Powertrain Design

  • 20161st

    Formula SAE BRASIL Overall

  • 20161st

    SAE Best Powertrain Design

  • 20162nd

    Formula SAE Cost and Manufacturing Award

  • 20171st

    FEV Best Powertrain Award

  • 20171st

    SAE Best Powertrain Design

  • 20171st

    Formula SAE Cost and Manufacturing Award

  • 20181st

    SAE Best Powertrain Design

  • 20181st

    Formula SAE Cost and Manufacturing Award

  • 20191st

    SAE Best Powertrain Design

How an engagement works

01

Scope call

We define the problem and what decision the result feeds into.

02

Proposal

A written scope, deliverables and timeline, agreed before any work starts.

03

Iteration

Regular check-ins as the work develops, not a black box at the end.

04

Deliverables & review

Results, plus a walkthrough of what they mean for your decision.

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