Physics · Analysis · AI
Modeling platforms, built on physics.
Mellin Labs builds and licenses modeling platforms for industrial equipment and operations. Thermal and fluids physics, advanced analysis, and AI, from one team.
Physics · Analysis · AI
Mellin Labs builds and licenses modeling platforms for industrial equipment and operations. Thermal and fluids physics, advanced analysis, and AI, from one team.
Tools shaped around one company's equipment, methods and goals used to be out of reach. They are not anymore.
Can now build what previously required large organizations: faster, more tailored, at a fraction of the cost.
Of the work: the speed of development, and the intelligence of the tools themselves.
Shaped around your goals, workflows and equipment are now achievable in weeks, not years.
We can build these quickly because the physics, the analysis and the software sit under one roof.
Heat transfer, fluid networks, process equipment, psychrometrics.
We know the physics first-hand, so the tools get it right.
Optimization, simulation and modeling, built for accuracy and speed.
Answers in seconds, not overnight.
Platforms people open every day. AI in how we build, and in what we build.
Shipped, secured, supported.
Built around your products, methods and workflows. Not a general tool you adapt to.
Grounded in physics and validated against reference results before anything ships.
Responsive tools, and the velocity to deliver and iterate: new capabilities land in weeks, not quarters.
Our model: we build platforms and license them, shaped by the people who use them.
Here are some of the platforms we've built, with more on the way as we expand to new equipment and operational goals. What they share is the approach: physics first, validated against reference results, built as a product rather than a study.
A complete design and rating platform for moving bed heat exchangers: thermal and hydraulic design, a network solver, an AI design assistant, versioned projects and team workspaces. Licensed to an equipment manufacturer and in daily use.
Multi-bank exchangers, solved channel by channel.
Finds the least-cost way to hold an air handler's supply targets as conditions change, and quantifies energy, cost and carbon from a single unit up to a whole portfolio. We are building it out with operators.
The best operating point, tracked as conditions change.
A design and rating platform for duct and extraction networks: the whole network solved at once, with friction and fitting losses, minimum transport velocity in every duct, and each fan's operating point, explored in a navigable 3D view.
Large networks, solved in milliseconds.
Directions we've scoped with equipment manufacturers and operators. In each one, the models are ours: first-principles physics, numerical solvers and optimization, built around your equipment and validated before anything ships.
Your products inside a design tool that sizes, rates and selects in minutes, not weeks of manual calculation.
What we bringHeat transfer and pressure-drop models for your geometry, solved across the whole network at once.
Customer-ready proposals and datasheets backed by a full calculation, not a rule of thumb.
What we bringMulti-scenario optimization that finds the configuration meeting the duty at the lowest cost.
Energy, cost and carbon quantified hour by hour, with payback on upgrades such as heat recovery and variable-speed drives.
What we bringPsychrometrics, fan and pump laws, and year-long simulation on real weather.
Your drawings, catalogue and test results feed the models, so the tool gets more accurate the more you use it.
What we bringCorrelations calibrated against your test data, and CFD reduced to fast parameters for custom components.
Predicted versus measured at handover, with guided checks, pass/fail and what to investigate.
What we bringThe design model becomes the reference: every reading checked against what the physics says it should be.
Catch degradation early, and recommend or set the best operating point.
What we bringThe same physics model used in design, with optimization that tracks the moving optimum as conditions change.
We start with your priorities, not a product pitch. Scope and pace are decided together.
A session with your engineering and operations teams: which goals, equipment and targets matter most.
Pick one or two real projects or units, where better data and visibility would move those goals.
We build around what we learn, and try it together on your problem.
Whether and where to go further, with a platform that keeps growing as releases land in your instance.
Two careers, one team: deep thermal and fluids engineering, and production software at global scale.
Co-Founder · Thermal & Fluids Engineering, Applied Mathematics
Pedro brings almost 20 years in thermal and fluids engineering to Mellin Labs, and the physics behind every platform it builds.
He holds a PhD from the University of Toronto in heat transfer and fluid dynamics and has published extensively on transport phenomena. He has led R&D and engineering at Solex Thermal Science, NOVA Chemicals and P&G, including fluid mechanics software for pneumatic conveying of solids and flow through packed beds.
At Rivian, as Staff Chemical Engineer in Building & Infrastructure Design and the Paint Shop, he built fluid network models for weld water and cooling loops and worked on RTO engineering, commissioning and aeraulic integration. He is a Professional Engineer in Alberta and Ontario.
Co-Founder · Software Engineering & AI
Pablo brings over 20 years building production platforms at global scale: the architecture, AI integration and product sense that turn engineering methods into software engineers want to use every day.
He spent over eight years at Meta, most recently as Director of Engineering across Wearables, Messenger and Instagram, taking 0-to-1 products to product-market fit and leading platforms that serve billions of people.
Before Meta, he spent eleven years at Microsoft, where he led engineering at Yammer and grew the Redmond office from a founding team to five engineering groups. He holds an M.Sc. in Computer Science.
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