Summary
Xiaodong Chen is a postdoctoral fellow at Georgia Tech with eight years' experience specializing in computational fluid dynamics, multi-phase multi-scale simulations, and high-performance computing. His research focuses on atomization phenomena—droplet collision, impinging jets, and swirl injector breakup—blending adaptive mesh refinement and combustion-instability analysis to push predictive fidelity. Trained through a continuous academic trajectory at Beihang University (BEng, MEng, PhD), he has held visiting scholar roles at Penn State and Georgia Tech that seeded his experimental system design and setup skills. Xiaodong couples deep numerical-methods expertise with hands-on experiment design, enabling tight simulation–validation loops rarely seen in CFD-focused postdocs. He also contributes to Georgia Tech’s computational efforts, bringing practical experience in AMR criterion development and large-scale parallel computing. Colleagues value his ability to translate complex multiphase physics into robust, reproducible simulation frameworks that accelerate injector and spray research.
8 years of coding experience
Bachelor, Aerospace Engineering, Bachelor, Aerospace Engineering at Beihang University