Grove School mechanical engineering Professor Taehun Lee.
A trailblazing fluid mechanics project led by City College of New York Grove School of Engineering Professor Taehun Lee is one of 16 initiatives nationally awarded supercomputing time at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DoE) Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) Leadership Computing Challenge (ALCC). They will pursue advances in areas ranging from quantum chemistry to clean energy technologies to AI for science.
The Lee project, “High-Fidelity Simulations of Helium-Air Mixing in High-Temperature Gas Reactor Cavities,” will use the ALCF's Aurora and Polaris supercomputers to pursue breakthroughs in science and engineering. The research has application for work in nuclear engineering.
Each year, the ASCR program, which manages some of the world’s most powerful supercomputing facilities, selects ALCC projects in areas that aim to further DOE mission science and broaden the community of researchers capable of using leadership computing resources.
The ALCC program allocates computational resources at ASCR’s supercomputing facilities to research scientists in industry, academia, and national laboratories. In addition to the ALCF located at DOE’s Argonne National Laboratory, ASCR’s supercomputing facilities include the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The ALCF, OLCF, and NERSC are DOE Office of Science user facilities.
Other institutions awarded computing time include:
- The University of Connecticut;
- Utah State University;
- The Ames National Laboratory;
- Stanford University;
- Argonne National Laboratory; and
- University of South Florida.
Click here for the complete list of the 16 projects awarded one-year computing time on the ALCF’s Aurora and Polaris systems.
Lee is a professor in the Grove School’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. He is a core faculty member of the CUNY Energy Institute and his research expertise is in the areas of multiphase/multiscale computational fluid dynamics and high-order methods for the lattice Boltzmann equation.
Lee is the recipient of the 2005 J.H. Wilkinson Fellowship from the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at the Argonne National Laboratory. He serves as associate editor of the journal Computers & Fluids. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Seoul National University; and his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Iowa.
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