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Jacqueline Chen

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Jacqueline H. Chen is an American mechanical engineer. She works in the Combustion Research Facility of Sandia National Laboratories, where she is a Senior Scientist.[1] Her research applies massively parallel computing to the simulation of turbulent combustion.[1][2]

Education and career

Chen grew up as a child of Chinese immigrants in Ohio,[3] and graduated from the Ohio State University with a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering in 1981. After earning a master's degree in mechanical engineering in 1982 at the University of California, Berkeley,[1] under the mentorship of Boris Rubinsky,[3] she continued at Stanford University for doctoral study in the same subject. She completed her Ph.D. in 1989;[1] her doctoral advisor at Stanford was Brian J. Cantwell.[4]

She has worked at Sandia since finishing her education and is a pioneer of massively parallel direct numerical simulation of turbulent combustion with complex chemistry [5]. She has led teams of computer scientists, applied mathematicians and computational engineers on the co-design of combustion simulation software for exascale computing (10^18 flops).

Recognition

In 2018, Chen was elected to the National Academy of Engineering "for contributions to the computational simulation of turbulent reacting flows with complex chemistry".[5][6] In the same year, the Society of Women Engineers gave her an Achievement Award, their top honor,[7] and the Combustion Institute awarded her the Bernard Lewis Gold Medal, "for her exceptional skill in linking high performance computing and combustion research to deliver fundamental insights into turbulence-chemistry interactions".[8] The Combustion Institute and the American Physical Society also named her as one of its fellows.[8][9][10]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Jacqueline H. Chen, Sandia National Laboratories, retrieved 2019-01-27
  2. ^ Frederick, Robert (July–August 2016), "A computed flame: To understand how fuel burns in a diesel engine takes chemistry knowledge and supercomputing muscle", American Scientist, vol. 104, no. 4, p. 206, doi:10.1511/2016.121.206
  3. ^ a b "The Power of Mentorship: How Jackie Chen is Inspiring the Next Generation to Create a more Sustainable Future", Woprogrammer, December 5, 2018, retrieved 2019-01-27
  4. ^ "Jacqueline H. Chen", Fluid dynamics and combustion tree, retrieved 2019-01-27
  5. ^ a b Sandia researcher Jacqueline Chen elected to National Academy of Engineering, Sandia National Laboratories, February 28, 2018, retrieved 2019-01-27
  6. ^ "Dr. Jacqueline H. Chen", Members, National Academy of Engineering, retrieved 2019-01-27
  7. ^ Society of Women Engineers recognizes Sandia researcher with its highest honor, United States Department of Energy, September 6, 2018, retrieved 2019-01-27
  8. ^ a b Jacqueline Chen, 2018 Recipient of the Bernard Lewis Gold Medal, The Combustion Institute, August 28, 2018, retrieved 2019-01-27
  9. ^ Sandia researchers named fellows of The Combustion Institute, Sandia National Laboratories, July 16, 2018, retrieved 2019-01-27
  10. ^ Jacqueline Chen elected fellow of the American Physical Society, Sandia National Laboratories, October 12, 2018, retrieved 2019-03-17