Postdoctoral Fellow; PREP

General Description

Salary: $72,000 a year

PREP Research Associate

This position is part of the National Institute of Standards (NIST) Professional Research Experience (PREP) program. NIST recognizes that its research staff may wish to collaborate with researchers at academic institutions on specific projects of mutual interest, thus requires that such institutions must be the recipient of a PREP award. The PREP program requires staff from a wide range of backgrounds to work on scientific research in many areas.

Employees in this position will perform technical work that underpins the scientific research of the collaboration.

The project will focus on developing a procedure for quantifying uncertainties in wind loads on a tall building estimated by Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) techniques. The research work will include i) development and application of state-of-the-art computational techniques for simulation of flow around tall buildings, (ii) quantification of uncertainty in the computational simulations, and (iii) comparison of simulation results with wind tunnel and field measurements.

All CFD code will be developed for implementation into the OpenFOAM software.

Key responsibilities will include but are not limited to:

§ Developing CFD modeling procedures for simulating of flow around tall buildings and implementing related codes in OpenFOAM

§ Performing numerical simulations and quantifying uncertainties in the simulation results

§ Analyzing simulation data and comparing them with measured data from wind tunnel tests.

§ Ph.D. in Engineering, Physics, Applied Mathematics, or a related field.

§ Prior experience and contributions in wind engineering, Computational Fluid Dynamics, and scientific computing.

§ Familiarity with OpenFOAM to develop and maintain codes.

§ Strong programming and analytical skills for pre-/post-processing and analysis (e.g., Pointwise, Paraview, Tecplot, MATLAB, and Python)

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