Yuhu Zhai
Distinguished Engineering Fellow / Chief Engineer for NSTX-U at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
- Role
- Nstx-u Chief Engineer at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)
- Location
- Princeton, NJ, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Yuhu Zhai
Years of experience in project engineering and engineering management• Solid background in computational electromagnetics and solid mechanics• Expert in multi-physics domain simulations and model-order reduction for integrated simulations • 15 years of experience in designing, building and testing of LTS & HTS superconducting magnets• Expert in ANSYS, OPERA, MAXWELL, MATLAB, Fortran and proficient in C/C++Specialties: • Magnet technology for the design of high field superconducting magnets and fusion magnets• Model-order reduction in computational electromagnetics and solid mechanics • Signal processing and remote sensing in space physics
Experience
Nstx-u Chief Engineer
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)
Oct 2018 — Present · Princeton, NJ, US
Played a major leadership role in the completion of the design for the NSTX-U Recovery Project. Worked closely with management and project team to devise technical solutions. Organized and contributed to over 80 key technical reviews.
Education
University of Florida
PhD, Engineering Mechanics
1998 — 2003
Huazhong University of Science and Technology
B.S, Engineering Mechanics
1990
Huazhong University of Science and Technology
M.S, Computational Mechanics
1993
Skills
- Finite Element Analysis
- Ansys
- Fortran
- Simulations
- Matlab
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