Office Hours
Monday/Wednesday: 10:00-11:00AM Upson II 267 or Zoom;
Thursday: 4:00-5:00PM Upson II 267 or Zoom;
Wednesday: 7:00-8:00PM Zoom only.
Websites
Biography
Chonglin Zhang is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of North Dakota. He earned his PhD in Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics at the University of Minnesota in 2013. His research focuses on the kinetic theory based particle simulation methods, including the direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method and the particle-in-cell (PIC) method, with applications in hypersonic flow, rarefied gas dynamics, aerothermodynamics, microscale and nanoscale flows, and plasma physics. He uses high performance computing (HPC) in his computational research. Prior to joining UND, he was a Research Scientist at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY, where he worked on developing simulation code to model plasma physics in tokamak device, a promising device for controlled fusion. Previously, he also spent several years as a Project Engineer in the automotive industry, where he worked with engineers and researchers from Ford, Toyota, and GM to help them design new products using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD).
- ME466 Aerodynamics, Fall 2023
- ME464 Computational Fluid Dynamics, Spring 2024
- ME464 Computational Fluid Dynamics, Fall 2024
- ME466 Aerodynamics, Spring 2025
- Kinetic Theory
- Direct Simulation Monte Carlo Method
- Particle-in-Cell Method
- High Performance Computing
- Hypersonic Nonequilibrium Flows
- Plasma Physics
- Computational Fluid Dynamics
- Ph.D., Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 2013
- M.S., Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 2010
- B.E., Engineering Mechanics, Beihang University, Beijing, China, 2007
- Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of North Dakota, August 2023 -
- Research Scientist, Scientific Computation Research Center (SCOREC), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, January 2020 - August 2023
- Postdoctoral Research Associate, Scientific Computation Research Center (SCOREC), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, January 2019 - January 2020
- Project Engineer, Simerics Inc., July 2015 - December 2018
- Research Fellow, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, March 2015 - July 2015
- Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, September 2013 - February 2015