Chonglin Zhang

Biography

Chonglin Zhang is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of North Dakota. He earned his PhD in Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics at the University of Minnesota in 2013. His research focuses on the kinetic theory based particle simulation methods, including the direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method and the particle-in-cell (PIC) method, with applications in hypersonic flow, rarefied gas dynamics, aerothermodynamics, microscale and nanoscale flows, and plasma physics. He uses high performance computing (HPC) in his computational research. Prior to joining UND, he was a Research Scientist at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY, where he worked on developing simulation code to model plasma physics in tokamak device, a promising device for controlled fusion. Previously, he also spent several years as a Project Engineer in the automotive industry, where he worked with engineers and researchers from Ford, Toyota, and GM to help them design new products using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD).