Jacqueline Chen

Jacqueline H. Chen is an American mechanical engineer. She works in the Combustion Research Facility of Sandia National Laboratories, where she is a Senior Scientist.^[1] Her research applies massively parallel computing to the simulation of turbulent combustion.^[1][2]

Chen grew up as a child of Chinese immigrants in Ohio,^[3] and graduated from the Ohio State University with a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering in 1981. After earning a master's degree in mechanical engineering in 1982 at the University of California, Berkeley,^[1] under the mentorship of Boris Rubinsky,^[3] she continued at Stanford University for doctoral study in the same subject. She completed her Ph.D. in 1989;^[1] her doctoral advisor at Stanford was Brian J. Cantwell.^[4]

She has worked at Sandia since finishing her education and is a pioneer of massively parallel direct numerical simulation of turbulent combustion with complex chemistry ^[5]. She has led teams of computer scientists, applied mathematicians and computational engineers on the co-design of combustion simulation software for exascale computing (10^18 flops).

In 2018, Chen was elected to the National Academy of Engineering "for contributions to the computational simulation of turbulent reacting flows with complex chemistry".^[5][6] In the same year, the Society of Women Engineers gave her an Achievement Award, their top honor,^[7] and the Combustion Institute awarded her the Bernard Lewis Gold Medal, "for her exceptional skill in linking high performance computing and combustion research to deliver fundamental insights into turbulence-chemistry interactions".^[8] The Combustion Institute and the American Physical Society also named her as one of its fellows.^[8][9][10]

• Jacqueline Chen publications indexed by Google Scholar