7/30/2025 Alex completed Argonne Summer Internship
Alexander Garner successfully completed his summer internship at Argonne National Laboratory under the supervision of Dr. Saumil Patel.
7/28/2025 Hai Lu & Chunheng presented at FEDSM2025
Chunheng Zhao (left), Hai Lu Lin (middle), and Saumil Patel (right) attended FEDSM 2025 in Philadelphia and presented their work on IMEXLBM and Nek5000/RS simulations.
5/31/2025 New HPC Award
2025-2026 ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge (ALCC) award with the allocation of 75,000 node-hours on Polaris at Argonne Leadership Computing Facility.
6/1/2024 New Research Grant
Capillary-Controlled Thermal Diode using Heterogeneous Nanostructures (NSF), $560K, Collaborators: Wichita State University, Stevens Institute of Technology
5/31/2024 New HPC Award
2024-2025 ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge (ALCC) award with the allocation of 115,000 node-hours on Polaris at Argonne Leadership Computing Facility.
3/10/2024 New Lab Member
Prof. Joon Ahn from Kookmin University, Korea joined CMFD group as Visiting Professor for a year.
2/5/2024 New Lab Member
Dr. Chunheng Zhao joined CMFD group as Postdoctoral Research Associate. Chunheng completed 1 year postdoctoral training at the Sorbonne University, Paris. Welcome on board!
10/1/2023 New Research Grant
Exascale Simulation of Thermal-Hydraulics Phenomena in Advanced Reactors and Validation using High Resolution Experimental Data (DOE), $1.5M, Collaborators: Argonne National Lab, University of New Mexico, Purdue University
8/25/2023 New Lab Members
Hai Lu Lin and Alexander Gardner joined CMFD group as PhD student. Welcome on board!
12/16/2022 PhD Defense
Chunheng Zhao has defended his PhD thesis successfully on December 15th, 2022 and will start postdoc position at the Institut Jean Le Rond ∂'Alembert, Sorbonne Université and CNRS, Paris. Congratulations! Wish you the best!
4/29/2022 New Fellowship Grant
CCNY Nuclear Research Fellowship Program (NRC), $400K, Collaborator: Hunter College
9/1/2021 New Member
Margulan Tursynkhan joined CMFD group as new PhD student starting from September 2021. Welcome on board!
8/13/2021 PhD Defense
Geng Liu has defended his PhD thesis successfully on August 13th, 2021 and will join the Argonne National Lab's ALCF (Argonne Leadership Computing Facility) as postdoc in September. Congratulations! Wish you the best!