Matthew Churchfield
Research Engineer at National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Louisville, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Churchfield is a Distinguished Member of the Research Staff at the National Wind Technology Center with over a decade of experience in high-fidelity simulation of atmospheric flows and their interaction with wind and tidal energy systems. He blends engineering and atmospheric physics to advance wind-plant control, power forecasting, and turbulence modeling using modern numerical methods and world-class supercomputing. A Purdue-trained aerodynamicist (Ph.D., M.S.) who began his work on RANS turbulence for wing-tip vortices, he now applies those fundamentals to large-scale renewable energy challenges and even underwater tidal turbine flows. Based in Golden, Colorado, he pairs deep technical scholarship with practical code development practices, making complex fluid dynamics tractable for operators and forecast models.
12 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Aeronautics and Astronautics, Ph.D., Aeronautics and Astronautics at Purdue UniversityBachelor’s Degree, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Mechanical Engineering at Univerisity of Nevada, Reno
Github Skills (29)
simulation10
turbine10
openfoam10
modeling-tool10
solver10
mach10
sampling10
power-systems10
unstructured10
energy-system10
snl-applications10
clause10
modelica10
targeting9
energy9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mchurchf/amr-wind
Jan 2021 - Apr 2024
AMReX-based structured wind solver
Contributions:2 PRs, 32 pushes, 13 branches in 3 years 2 months
ssreflectcrosswordstructuredwindamrex
NREL/SOWFA
May 2014 - Apr 2019
Contributions:124 commits, 22 PRs, 115 pushes in 5 years
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