Mason Shopperly

Mason Shopperly

CFD · numerics · simulation

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Mason Shopperly, autumn light

About

CFD and numerics engineer.

Math and physics that survive real hardware.

AEROSPACE AUTOMOTIVE ENERGY WORKFLOWS

Work · selected, by depth

Engineering and numerics.

  1. Ahmed-25 baseline U_x on the symmetry plane — body, slanted-back separation, wake recirculation

    INDEPENDENT · 2024 →

    aeroAUTO

    A personal OpenFOAM workflow built around the Ahmed body — mesh-independence series end-to-end, pressure / wake / y⁺ inspection on the converged solution, with the DrivAer geometry queued as the next step away from the textbook test case.

  2. JST (ARC1D) vs Roe + MUSCL-minmod (upwind1d) — Sod shock tube density panel, CFDLab cross-solver comparison

    INDEPENDENT · 2024 →

    CFDLab — a two-book CFD codebase

    An independent, ongoing Python implementation of the Lomax–Pulliam–Zingg two-book CFD curriculum — three structurally different quasi-1-D Euler solvers, an analytical-method probe layer, and CI-pinned numerical baselines.

  3. ROLE · CONTRACT · 2025–2026

    Sepal AI · reproducible aerospace analysis workflows

    Aerospace engineering inside Sepal AI's task-based system — building reproducible analysis workflows, including constraint-driven fixed-wing UAV sizing, that someone without the original setup can re-run and trust.

  4. MENG · UTIAS · 2023–2025

    SBP operators and Gregory quadrature

    MEng project with Prof. David Zingg on high-order summation-by-parts finite-difference operators and generalised Gregory quadrature rules for boundary closures.

  5. Mason with the UTAT Aero competition airframe

    UTAT · 2023–2025

    UTAT wing MDO

    Wing aerodynamics and a simple multidisciplinary design loop — nonlinear lifting-line coupled with beam-bending spar sizing — for the UTAT SAE Aero competition aircraft.

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Worlds · three lanes

  1. Cockpit view of close formation flying during the Mooney Caravan
    AVIATION Caravan, Oshkosh, the Mooney, the museum.
  2. Foothills evening with Rockies on the horizon
    OUTDOORS Foothills, winter and summer, water.
  3. Two UTAT team members at a bench, mid-build on a wooden airframe
    BUILDING The bench, the team aircraft, the cars.

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