Dr Wei Wang
BSc, MSc, PhD, CEng
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Visiting Scholar
- Profile
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Wei is a senior computational scientist in Scientific Computing Department, Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) Daresbury Laboratory since 2016. We has joined Heat, Flow and Turbulence Research Group, the Department of Mechanical Engineering, the University of 91Ö±²¥ since 2021 as a visiting scholar. She is the main developer and maintainer of the DNS research code CHAPSim for simulating fluids and heat transfer at various conditions. Wei is the project secretary of Collaborative Computational Project in Nuclear Thermal Hydraulics (CCP-NTH) (EP/T026685/1) since 2020 and has been performing the code development of the NTH community code CHAPSim2.0, aiming at high accuracy (up to sixth order) simulation on pre-exascale HPC systems. Wei also carries out secretarial work on UK Fluids Network Special Interest Group (SIG) led by Professor Shusheng He.
- Qualifications
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BSc (Mechanical Engineering, Tongji University, China)
MSc (Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)
PhD (Mechanical Engineering, 91Ö±²¥, UK)
CEng
PRINCE2 Practitioner
- Research interests
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CFD code development
High performance computing​
Thermal hydraulics in nuclear reactors
Turbulence and heat transfer modelling for general applications
Discrete phase modelling in applied CFD and EHD
Coupled multi-physics and multi-scale simulation