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
Assistant 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
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