Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Mechanical Engineering
Penn State UniversityAbout the role
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POSITION SPECIFICS
Job Duties:
The candidate is expected to develop digital twin systems using multi-physics simulations of 2D material synthesis chambers according to the corresponding experimental setups
Validate and calibrate the digital twins against experimental measurements
Use the digital wins for process optimization and recommendations for users of the Penn State Cloud Lab
Qualifications and Requirements:
Engineering computational cluid dynamics simulations
CAD modeling
ReaxFF-based molecular dynamics simulations
The candidate must have earned a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering or a related field by the appointment start date
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BENEFITS
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