Customer Support Research Assistant

QUAN JIN ** Freedom Cir. Southbury CT 064**-***-*** *************@*****.***

EXPERTISE

Over 15 years’ engineering and research experience on Multiphysics thermal and flow analysis

Development, maintenance and customer support for aero thermal/flow analysis tools for fan, compressor, turbine and combustor

Fuel cell stack/system/module/mixer/burner component design and development, failure root cause analysis

Multiphase bio-fluid modeling and analysis for consumer products optimization

Proficient with FLUENT, ANSYS, NX, Solidworks, ProE, familiar with user plugin development, NXOpen, UniGraphics, Teamcenter, Sharepoints, ABAQUS, StarCCM+, Linux, HPC cluster

Matlab, FORTRAN, C, Python, Perl, Github version control

Technical consulting, customer support and teaching

EDUCATION

Ph. D. New Jersey Institute of Technology, Mechanical Engineering

M.S. Tsinghua University, Thermal Engineering

B.S. Qingdao University of Technology, Heating, Ventilating and Airconditioning Engineering

EXPERIENCE

Pratt & Whitney, East Hartford CT, 2016 - now

Senior Aero Thermal Method Engineer

Owner of multiple PW enterprise wide thermal/fluid analysis tools. Responsible for tool development, release, version control, quality test and customers support across multi disciplines of fan, compressor, turbine and combustor

Annually update & release PW custom build ANSYS with in-house thermal/structural plug-ins in Windows, Linux and HPC cluster; owner of thermal macros. Established quality test procedure. First time in 8 years updated ANSYS in PW from v12.1 to v18.2, and continuously update production release of v19.3, 2020R2, 2021R2, 2022R2 (EAGLE Award)

New Siemens NX thermal analysis tools evaluation for RAPID team (HPC/HPT Rotor design team) (EAGLE Award). Support inhouse plugin tools implementation in NXOpen

Develop and maintain in-house Matlab based system integration clearance toolset (Clear65, MatTran, MOACM, Bowed Rotor rub and mitigation, Build Clearance Design tool). User manual development and code version control and collaboration platform in Github

PW1500 transient thermal/CFD coupled modeling to evaluate PowerFlow developed by EXA

Test and develop in-house automated Fluent/ANSYS multi-physics coupling workflow for flow induced vibration analysis, HALO seal flutter control and design optimization, rig test data validation etc.

Fuel Cell Energy, Inc. Danbury CT (a global leading clean energy company on fuel cell power generation)

September, 2008 – September, 2016

Senior Mechanical Engineer

Chief analyst providing extensive company-wise technical supports on multi-physics Fluid, Thermal analysis and flow test aided in new products design & development; cost reduction; and failure root cause analysis.

•New generation prodcut desgin and development modeling.

Carbon capture in-cell flow design

375kW in-cell electro-chemical reaction flow modeling;

High Efficiency Fuel Cell, C1400, A100, module flow system design and analysis;

BiPolar plate thermal growth analysis;

250kW Solid Oxidizer Fuel Cell (SOFC) module development

•Anode Gas Mixer/Eductor and Oxidizer (MEO)’s and Anode Gas Oxidizer (AGO)‘s desgin and development. Established combustion model aided in MEO performance evaluation; root cause analysis in related issues and products redesign.

•Company’s key project on solving Non-Uniform Cell Performance issue which has direct impact on improving stack life.

•Discovered the key factor affecting Cahode-in gas dT distribution and brought up solution which dramatically improved temperature uniformity and stack life.

•Designed new Cathode-In mixing hood and cold flow tests for model validation.

•Key member of various 8D projects on numerous module and Balance of Plant (BOP) equipments.

•Air heater and humidifier thermal stress analysis; air blower silencer baffle design; desulfurizer inlet design; DFC3000 exhaust cap design; hazardous emission evaluation

•Reforming units header design.

Detected non-uniformity of fuel flow distribution and discovered the root cause Matrix casting slurry multiphase flow analysis.

Discovered the fundamentals and brought up effective solution on how to achieve even thickness of matrix tape during casting process.

•Solved module back flow issues which shortens stack life during hot-restart.

Discovered the root cause for back flow into modules during hot-restart and provided effective and low cost solution for minimizing it.

New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, Bio-Medical Engineering, January, 2007 – 2008 Adjunct Professor

Developed and instructed undergraduate and graduate courses on “Computational Biomechanics” and “CAD For Biomech & Biomaterial”

Johnson & Johnson, Consumer Products Technology Dept, Skillman, NJ, June, 2006 – January, 2007

Bio-Fluid Numerical Modeling Consultant

Developed CFD model (Fluent) of multiphase bio-flow models in human anatomies to aid in personal hygiene products design and development

•Created and fixed 3D human anatomy model from MRI scan images

•Generated quality mesh for a highly curved 3D human anatomy model(TGrid)

•Helped define a test method for experimental visualization of the flow in the anatomy

•Gave a series of lectures on CFD and numerical simulations to JNJ scientists

New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, Mechanical Engineering, 2001 – 2006 Research Assistant

Developed 3D numerical multiphase models for studying blood cells motion, deformation and adhesion in bio-fluid flows using Finite Element Method (FEM) to understand the transportation of blood and tumor cells in blood stream and their extravasation through the vessel wall.

•Developed composite structure rheological models for white blood cell: adopted second order viscoelastic model to represent highly viscous cell nucleus

•Numerically modeled adhesion between bio-material surfaces and biological cells

•Developed numerical code based on finite element method (FEM) and level-set technique to track the cell membrane position

Tsinghua University, National Key Lab of Clean Combustion of Coal, Beijing, China Sept. 1997 – Jan. 2001 Research Assistant

•Developed the numerical model of tri-generation (gas, steam and power) system of boiler fluidized bed

•Developed the commercial software interface for tri-generation system design using visual basic (VB) programming

China Patent Agent (H.K.) Ltd., Beijing, China, Mechanical Engineering Department, Feb. 2001 – July 2001

Patent Attorney consultant

Consulted overseas companies on protection of their intellectual property in China.

PUBLICATIONS

Q. Jin and P. Singh. “Migration and deformation of leukocytes in pressure driven flows”, Mechanics Research Communications, 34, 411–422 (2007).

Q. Jin, P. Singh, N. Aubry. “Deformation of Leukocyte on the uneven wall”, poster presentation, Frontiers in Applied and Computational Mathematics, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ (2006).

Q. Jin, C. Verdier, P. Singh, N. Aubry, A. Duperray. “Migration, rolling and deformation of circulating cells adhering to a wall under flow”, FEDSM2006-98415 Symposium Paper, ASME (2006).

Q. Jin, C. Verdier, P. Singh, N. Aubry, A. Duperray. “Direct simulation of the migration of leukocytes in pressure driven flow”, ASME 2nd Joint U.S.-European Fluids Engineering Summer Meeting, Miami, FL (2006).

Jin, Q., Verdier, C., Singh, P., “Rolling and deformation of cells in pressure driven flows”, the 56th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics, American Physical Society, Secaucus, NJ (2003)

Verdier, C., Jin, Q., Singh, P., et al, “Modeling the rolling and deformation of a circulating cell adhering on an adhesive wall under flow”, Archives of Physiology and Biochemistry, 111 Spp l.,

14, (2003)

AWARDS & PATENTS

Pratt & Whitney: Eagle Award 2019/12 – Siemens NX Thermal Tool Validation and PW Plugin Development for RAPID

Pratt & Whitney: Eagle Award 2018/06 – First time unified enterprise wide custom build ANSYS migration

Leadership Award Nominee – 2018/09 Lead multiple discipline ANSYS migration team

Appreciation award – 2016/12 Clearance Tools first production release

Fuel Cell Stack Inlet Flow Control – patent No. 18792519.3 -1108

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