Christopher Paolini is a post-doctoral researcher and adjunct faculty
member in the departments of Computer Science and Computational Science
at San Diego State University. Christopher received a PhD in
computational science in 2007 and his master's and baccalaureate degrees
in Computer Science in 1998 and 1991, respectively, all from San Diego
State University. Funded by NSF, DOE, and NASA, Christopher's research
focuses primarily on the numerical simulation of heat and mass transport
in chemically reacting systems. Christopher is interested in the
development and understanding of numerical methods for computing
equilibrium states of gaseous and condensed matter in chemically
reacting systems and the application of these methods in simulating
thermal-fluid processes. Christopher is involved in the development of
multi-step reaction kinetics algorithms to simulate combustion processes
that are coupled with fluid dynamics, the development of software to
simulate multiphase flow to model flame spread over solid fuels, and the
physical measurement of flame spread to establish flammability criteria
for flame spread over solid materials used in spacecraft. In addition,
Christopher is engaged in a DOE funded research project that involves
the numerical modeling of long-term geochemical, structural, and seismic
consequences of injected supercritical CO2 in deep brine reservoirs.
Christopher teaches courses in distributed computing, computer
networking, and geologic carbon sequestration and is currently involved
in an NSF funded grant to design and implement a Science DMZ network for
the computational science community at San Diego State University to
facilitate large scientific dataset exchange.
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