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Canada Research Chair in Multidisciplinary Advanced Materials Systems Analysis, Caracterization and Optimization

Dominic Pelletier research is aimed to help manufacturers in demanding industries, such as aerospace, to find the best design for complex products in the least time and at the least cost in order to compete on a world stage.

Designing for Design !

Under increasing pressure from competitors around the world, Canadian industries are eager to reduce the price of their products while reducing manufacturing costs and optimizing product performance. Yet for companies working in sophisticated fields such as aerospace or hydraulic engineering, the very complexity of the design process is slowing the pace of innovation.

Dominique Pelletier has already tackled the daunting task of drafting computer software to model the behaviour of equipment such as aircraft wings or turbine engine blades, which can only be described through highly complicated mathematical systems. Working with the Montreal aircraft firm Bombardier, he and his colleagues have introduced a tool that increases manufacturers' competitiveness with programs that optimize performance, quickly and cost-effectively.

As holder of the Chair in Multi-Disciplinary Analysis and Optimization of Complex Engineering Systems, Dr. Pelletier intends to refine such design tools for use in various industrial sectors, enabling manufacturers in those sectors to remain competitive by offering superior products.

His work on these tools emerged from his significant accomplishments with equations intended to describe the flow of a fluid, such as air over a wing or water through a turbine. By providing more accurate estimates of the uncertainty surrounding those equations, his work has yielded mathematical results where the analysis and optimum design rivaled the accuracy of laboratory measurements of these same phenomena.

This work has proven to be of particular interest in the respective nuclear industries of the United States and France, where the analysis and optimum design of components is an urgent priority. In fact, Dr. Pelletier is one of only a few experts to have achieved international prominence in dealing with such problems, which even the most ardent engineers will admit to being too daunting.

Dominique Pelletier , Full professor
Mecanical Engineering department
(514) 340-4711 ext. 4102
dominique.pelletier@polymtl.ca