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NPRE Prof. Rizwan Uddin has been named a Faculty Fellow of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for the 2008-2009 academic year.

Uddin was awarded the fellowship to help support his project, "Parallel, Modified Nodal Integral Method and Innovative Application Accelerators (such as FPGAs, GPUs) for Turbulence Modeling using LES and DNS." Working in collaboration with NCSA's Dr. Volodymyr Kindratenko, Uddin plans to combine recent progress his group has made in developing improved numerical schemes for the Navier-Stokes equations and MPI-based parallelization for 3D, time-dependent turbulent flows with innovative application accelerators, including Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), graphical processing units (GPUs) and Cell processor. This will allow for the solution of a class of turbulence problems that have not been attempted previously. Advances made will allow better simulation capabilities for turbulent flows in nuclear as well as in other branches of engineering. NPRE graduate student Kai Huang is working with Uddin on the project.

This work was funded in part by the NCSA and the University of Illinois, under the auspices of the NCSA/University of Illinois Faculty Fellows Program.

Uddin's research interests are advanced computational methods, theoretical and CFD, radiation transport and reactor physics, reactor engineering, multiphase flow, reliability and risk analysis, and virtual reactor simulation. He has been a member of NPRE's faculty since 1996, and is currently the principle investigator for the department's Advanced Computation Group.

Uddin earned both a master's (1983) and a PhD (1987) from NPRE, after receiving a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering in 1980 from the Middle East Technical University. He was on faculty in the University of Virginia Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics Department before coming to Illinois.

Contact: Rizwan Uddin, professor, Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering, 217/244-4944.

Writer: Susan K. Mumm, editor/alumni affairs coordinator, Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering, 217/347-2166.