Postdoc: Heavy-Duty IC Engine CFD & AI/ML Modeling

Argonne National Laboratory; Lemont (IL); On-site; USD 73,000 - 121,000; Full time

Job summary

Argonne National Laboratory's Advanced Propulsion and Power department is seeking a postdoctoral appointee to advance multi-physics CFD simulations for internal combustion engines, integrating data-driven AI/ML approaches and HPC workflows. You will develop and validate models for fuel injection, spray-wall interactions, and turbulent combustion within a multidisciplinary team.

The role requires a recent PhD and experience with 3-D CFD tools, plus strong collaboration and communication skills to

Qualifications

• Recent PhD in mechanical, aerospace, energy engineering or closely related discipline.
• Experience with three-dimensional multiphase turbulent reacting flow applications including internal combustion engines and/or gas turbine engines using 3-D CFD codes.
• Understanding of fuel sprays, spray-wall interaction, turbulence, chemical kinetics, reacting flow physics, and turbulent combustion modeling.
• Knowledge of fuel properties and their effects on fluid behavior in reacting and non-reacting flow applications.
• Understanding of combustion theory and modeling applied to engines and propulsion systems.
• Strong collaborative and communication skills across divisions, labs and universities.
• Ability to present and publish results in peer-reviewed venues.
• Commitment to Argonne’s values of impact, safety, respect, integrity and teamwork.

Responsibilities

• Perform multi-physics and multi-scale CFD simulations of internal combustion engines.
• Develop physics-based and data-driven CFD models for fuel injection, spray-wall interaction, and turbulent combustion.
• Run high-fidelity reacting flow simulations for conventional and alternative fuels.
• Collaborate with experimentalists, CFD experts, AI/ML specialists, and computational scientists to enable HPC-enabled CFD workflows.

Skills

Collaborative skills

Communication

Education

PhD in mechanical, aerospace, energy engineering or related

Tools

CONVERGE

OpenFOAM

Fidelity Charles

ANSYS Fluent

TensorFlow

PyTorch

C/C++/Fortran

Job description

Argonne National Laboratory's Advanced Propulsion and Power department is seeking a postdoctoral appointee to advance multi-physics CFD simulations for internal combustion engines, integrating data-driven AI/ML approaches and HPC workflows. You will develop and validate models for fuel injection, spray-wall interactions, and turbulent combustion within a multidisciplinary team.

The role requires a recent PhD and experience with 3-D CFD tools, plus strong collaboration and communication skills to