Wencheng Jin
Sustainable Geoenergy Engineering
Wencheng Jin, Ph.D.
Staff Scientist
Energy & Environmental S&T
Idaho National Laboratory
P.O. Box 1625, MS 3570
Idaho Falls, ID 83415
Email: wencheng.jin@inl.gov
Education
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA
Ph.D., Civil Engineering (8/2014 - 8/2018)
Thesis: Computational Modeling of the Transition from Damage to Fracture in Intrinsically Anisotropic Porous Media
Advisor: Chloe Arson, Ph.D.
M.S., Civil Engineering (8/2014 - 8/2016)
Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
M. Eng, Engineering Mechanics (9/2011 - 7/2014)
Thesis: Research on the statistical reconstruction of discrete fracture network
Advisor: Heping Xie, Ph.D., Chinese Academy of Engineering
B. Eng, Engineering Mechanics (9/2007 - 7/2011)
Research Interests
Continuum Constitutive Law for Particulate & Solid Materials
Hyper-/hypo-/visco-plasticity & rheology model for quasi-static and dynamic granular flow,
Mechanical response of porous/fractured geomaterials subjected thermal/mineral alternation,
Integration, gradient or micropolar-based nonlocal regularization for shear-band/local-softening modeling,
Homogenization/phenomenology-based damage model for solids
High-performance Modeling for Multi-phase/scale/physics Problems
Pulsed-power, fluid, and thermal shock-driven fracture propagation modeling,
Multiphase (particle & fluid) flow modeling using GPU-accelerated SPH (DualSPHysics),
Multiscale concurrent simulation coupling DEM (LIGGGHTS, Yade) and FEM (Abaqus),
Thermo-Hydro-Chemo-Mechanical couplings in porous and fractured media (MOOSE)
Machine Learning Application in Engineering
Deep Learning powered image analysis,
Multiphysics-informed neural network and neural operator enabled for subsurface system digital twin,
Statistical simulation results informed surrogate/classification model development,
Data-driven constitutive modeling via physics-encoded neural networks.
Engineering Applications
Sustainable Geoengineering: bio-inspired pile foundation, bio-slope, bio-fiber in soil reinforcement
Resource Recovery: mine thermal energy storage, carbon negative mining, subsurface hydrogen storage/extraction, CO2 sequestration, enhanced geothermal system
Material Handling: tailings handling, equipment design & operation optimization, granular engineering
Digital Subsurface: mineral deposit, ore fragmentation, critical handling equipment, Geo-infrastructure
Selected Honors and Awards
2023, Early Career Achievement Award, Energy and Environmental Science & Technology Directorate, Idaho National Laboratory
2023, Presidential Citation Award, American Rock Mechanics Association
2022, Selected Member of ARMA Future Leaders, American Rock Mechanics Association
2020, Vision Award, Idaho National Laboratory
2018, Best Ph.D. Thesis Award, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
2018, George F. Sowers Distinguished Graduate Student Award, Georgia Institute of Technology