Tianchen Hu
Software Development Engineer at Idaho National Laboratory
Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area United States
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Top SchoolTianchen Hu is a Software Development Engineer with eight years of experience specializing in finite element methods and computational mechanics, currently contributing to Idaho National Laboratory's MOOSE multiphysics framework. He brings deep numerical analysis skills from a PhD in Computational Mechanics at Duke and has materially improved tensor mechanics, spectral decomposition, and Lagrangian kernels in the widely used idaholab/moose project. Comfortable bridging research and production, Tianchen writes robust back-end code, develops thorough test cases, and translates advanced mechanics theory into reliable simulation software. Based in the Raleigh-Durham area, he also maintains active academic ties as a graduate researcher, combining rigorous modeling expertise with practical software engineering to tackle complex multiphysics problems.
8 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational Mechanics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computational Mechanics at Duke UniversityBachelor of Science - BS, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mechanical Engineering at Case Western Reserve UniversityBachelor of Science - BS, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mechanical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis
Github Skills (8)
finite-element-analysis10
numerical-analysis10
c-language10
el10
tensor10
tensorflow10
cprogramming-language10
linear-algebra10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
idaholab/moose
Jun 2018 - Jan 2023
Multiphysics Object Oriented Simulation Environment
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Numerical Analyst
Back-end Developer & Numerical AnalystContributions:438 reviews, 144 commits, 117 PRs in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Tianchen's commits primarily focused on modifying and improving the `moose` physics simulation environment, a multiphysics, object-oriented, and finite element software. They made enhancements to the tensor mechanics module, specifically related to computing stresses and strain. Their contributions involved implementing features for spectral projection tensors, spectral decomposition, and improved the Lagrangian mechanics kernels. Furthermore, the user added and refined test cases for these improvements.
pythonfinite-element-analysisfemparallelmultiphysics
hugary1995/blackbear
Jun 2018 - Feb 2023
Contributions:43 pushes, 8 branches in 4 years 9 months
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