Minghui Chen
Contact
mnu@unm.edu
Phone: (505) 277-1941
Fax: (505) 277-5433
Physical Address
Room
1110
Farris Engineering Center (FEC)
Mailing Address
01 1120
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131-1070
Associate Professor
Department of Nuclear Engineering
Education
Ph.D. University of Michigan, Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences, 2018
M.S. The Ohio State University, Nuclear Engineering, 2015
B.S. Harbin Engineering University, Nuclear Engineering and Technology, 2011
Biography
Dr. Minghui Chen is currently an Associate Professor of Nuclear Engineering at the University of New Mexico (UNM). Dr. Chen joined UNM as an Assistant Professor in 2019. Prior to that, Dr. Chen was a research fellow in the Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences at the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor. Dr. Chen earned his B.S. degree in Nuclear Engineering from Harbin Engineering University in China in 2011, his M.S. degree in Nuclear Engineering from The Ohio State University in 2015, and Ph.D. degree in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor in 2018.
Dr. Minghui Chen is an inaugural winner of the Distinguished Early Career Award granted by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Nuclear Energy. Dr. Chen won the UNM School of Engineering's Early Career Research Excellence Award in 2024.
Teaching Interests
- Introduction to Transport Phenomena
- Thermodynamics and Nuclear Systems
Research Interests
- Nuclear reactor thermal hydraulics and safety
- High-temperature thermal-fluid systems (molten salt, sCO2, liquid metal, helium)
- Innovative heat exchanger design, optimization, modeling, and testing
- Advanced thermal power cycles and thermal energy storage
- Molten Salt Reactors, Sodium-cooled Fast Reactors, High-Temperature Gas-cooled Reactors, Concentrated Solar Power, and Micro-Reactors
