Driven to tackling difficult problems

Master's grad is passionate about resolving challenges in his field of research. Impressive problem-solving skills Khaled Younes honed as an engineering student contributed to his exceptional showing in the classroom and research breakthroughs. Officially graduating with a master's in mechanical and mechatronics engineering this week, Younes has developed a passion for tackling and finding answers to difficult challenges in fluid mechanics. Younes's interest in his field of study was piqued as a Waterloo Engineering undergraduate student when he learned about turbulence in a 3B fluid mechanics course, the basis of which has helped him produce models that can predict real-life scenarios. Simplifying design decisions His master's thesis focused on researching what he describes as "the random chaotic motion that is flowing around us at any point in time." "The whole idea is that near a wall or an object the velocity profile is highly non-linear and very hard to predict," he explains. "Whenever you conduct a numerical simulation, you want to estimate the velocity near the wall. Usually, those estimates are not accurate and they're expensive to compute."  In response to the issue, Younes developed a model that allows researchers in the field to correctly predict the velocity near the wall without having to run a full numerical computation.