Engineer

Gabriel Taillon

I have acquired both a Bachelor’s degree and Master’s in Engineering Physics at Polytechnique Montréal. My master was focused on the analysis of the mechanical properties of hard coatings to protect turbine blades in jet engines, which is already very close to Mechanical Enginering. I came to Japan at then end of 2016 to a turbomachine design laboratory because of an interest I had for cavitation. In Waseda University, I studied cavitation erosion using tools from statistical analysis such as stochastic processes and copulas. This is a novel modelling approach that focuses on experimental impacts measured using high-speed pressure sensors. In the stochastic impact model, impact occurence in time, in space, and the impact characteristics such as their force and duration into three independent components. They can be refined and switched out independently, like mathematical modules of sort. I also acquired valuable experience in Waseda University concerning fluid dynamics, continuum mechanics, turbine design, simulation methodologies and programming in general.