Minghui Chen

Contact


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

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Assistant Professor

Department of Nuclear Engineering

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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 joined the University of New Mexico 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. His research mainly focuses on experimental thermal hydraulics including separate and integral effects tests for Molten Salt Reactors and High-Temperature Gas-cooled Reactors.

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