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Basic Information
| Full Name | Seung Whan Chung |
| chung28@llnl.gov | |
| Homepage | https://chung-research.com |
Academic Interests
- Optimal flow control, Design optimization
- Reduced order modeling
- Turbulent flow
- Chaotic dynamics
- Uncertainty quantification
Education
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2021 Ph.D. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Advisor: Prof. J. B. Freund
- Thesis: Regular sensitivity calculation and gradient-based optimization of chaotic dynamical systems
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2017 M.S. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Advisor: Prof. J. B. Freund
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2014 B.S. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Seoul National University
Experience
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2023 - Present Postdoctoral Staff Member
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - Developed a scalable reduced order model with discontinuous Galerkin domain decomposition
- Orchestrated the development of pylibROM, python interface for the library of reduced order modeling
- Advised and mentored three student interns
- Ping-Hsuan Tsai
- Seung-Won Suh
- Axel Larsson
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2021 - 2023 Postdoctoral Researcher
University of Texas at Austin - Uncertainty quantification of electron-argon collision cross sections via Bayesian inference
- Developed a discontinuous-Galerkin HPC solver for large-scale non-equilibrium plasma simulations
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2017 Student Intern
Sandia National Laboratories - Developed a novel regular gradient computing method for chaotic particle plasma simulations.
- Demonstrated gradient computation for Debye shielding response and sheath edge formation.
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2014 - 2021 Graduate Researcher
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Developed multi-point penalty-based optimization framework for chaotic turbulent flows.
- Implemented and validated turbulence statistics and sound radiation of a compressible Mach-1.3 jet.