Mason Shopperly

The Aguasabon Gorge from the air, dark water running out between forested rock walls.

Aerospace and mechanical engineer

CFD RL Researcher at AlignerrMEng, Aerospace Science and Engineering, UTIAS

Alberta, Canada

    From the governing equations to the hardware they end up in

    The problems are in fluids, in structures, in optimisation and estimation, and where those are coupled, as when a wing bends and twists under the load it is carrying.

    I write my own solvers and verify them against exact solutions, work across commercial, open-source and research codes, and report a result with the conditions under which it holds. Those answers have gone through design review with structures and manufacturing into parts that were built and flown.

    Available now · September 2026

    Open to engineering roles across that span: simulation and analysis, engineering software and systems, verification, and design that ends in hardware. Aerospace especially, and any technically demanding field. Calgary preferred, on-site or hybrid anywhere in Canada, and open to remote work.

    Current

    Education

    Independent

    Selected record

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    One measurement, on the way in

    A shock tube, at the contact

    A shock tube is the standard first test of a compressible solver, because its exact answer is known on paper. Two schemes solve the same problem here. The dashed line is the exact density across the contact discontinuity; the two solid lines are what each scheme produced on the same mesh.

    This is one 1-D model problem at one grid spacing under one width rule, not a general ranking of the two schemes.

    The whole experiment, taken apart →

    • Exact
    • JST
    • Roe

    What was measured, in full →

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    Work of different kinds, side by side

    From a flow to the people flying it
    1. Streamwise velocity on the Ahmed body's symmetry plane: the slant, the separated shear layer above it, the reversed-flow pocket behind, and the wake curling off the ground line.
      A flow, solved The air behind a body, resolved and taken apart.
    2. A topology-optimised slat bracket refitted as a smooth polyNURBS solid, ready to be made.
      A part, made buildable Material taken out where the load is not.
    3. The Stratus tilt-rotor competition aircraft standing on a hardstand in winter light, wing-mounted rotors upright.
      A wing, built and flown Sized against its own spar, then cut and assembled.
    4. The UTIAS flight research simulator: out-the-window scene and glass-panel displays in a darkened cab.
      A pilot, measured A person, written as a block diagram.
    5. Two Mooneys in echelon, air to air over farmland, seen past the camera ship's wing.
      And the formation they fly in A wake, where nobody has published one.
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    Field, Notes and About

    Three more ways in
    1. The Mountaineer C-GNSF airframe parked on a strip in Squamish, with coastal mountains behind.
      Field Flying, building, and the country all of it happens in.
    2. A finished milk drink beside the machine it was pulled on.
      Notes Smaller things, worked out to the same standard.
    3. Mason Shopperly, autumn light.
      About Where each of these capabilities was learned.