Location: Oak Ridge, TN
Cap-Exempt H-1B Position — No lottery required
Requisition Id 16167 **Overview:** The Multiphysics Modeling and Flows (MMF) Group in the Computational Sciences and Engineering Division is seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate with expertise in computational mesh generation. In this role, you will apply your software engineering skills to develop and validate computational results that support large-scale, physics-based simulations across a variety of applications. **Our Group:** MMF is a computational multiphysics modeling group at the forefront of deploying novel computational engineering techniques for problems that are critical to U.S. national and energy security. We utilize our expertise in numerical discretization techniques, high performance computing, mesh generation, and geometry representation for a wide variety of physics applications. Our intention is to integrate computational modeling with experimental methods and provide innovative solutions for technology growth. We aspire to help generate technical artifacts (patents) as well as scientific artifacts (journal articles). Almost all of our simulation codes require a mesh to discretize the spatial domain of interest. For some applications, generating this mesh has historically been a labor-intensive process because it is shown to be a leading driver of computational accuracy. As a result, for certain use cases of interest to ORNL, we are in need of an applications engineer capable of generating meshes and accurate solutions to complex problems. **What does our ideal teammate look like and what will you be doing?** In this role, you will be responsible for working with subject matter experts to understand and refine new CFD application and/or CFD discretization techniques and then lead the implementation of these techniques into large-scale, automatic computational work-flows with particular attention paid to computational accuracy. It is expected that there will be an initial focus on unstructured CFD discretization and conformal mesh generation