Mr. Charles Reid

About Me

I am a Ph.D. candidate in chemical engineering at the Institute for Clean and Secure Energy at the University of Utah. My advisor is Professor Philip Smith.

You can visit my website at http://www.charlesmartinreid.com

You can view my C.V. at http://files.charlesmartinreid.com/curriculumvitae.pdf

I joined Scholarpedia to help contribute. Wikis are a great way to organize information and empower users to contribute, and adding a peer-review step for articles will ultimately lead to better quality articles.

(I think Wikipedia is a great model, but suffers from the "gray goo" effect (see Wikipedia:Grey goo) whereby valuable content and verified factual information is slowly eroded, bit by bit. My Wikipedia user page is here)

Technical Expertise

My research area is computer simulation of turbulent multiphase reacting flows. My thesis is implementing a novel dispersed-phase model called the direct quadrature method of moments (DQMOM) (see Fox 2003) into an existing large eddy simulation code, and validating the results using the data collaboration approach of Frenklach, Packard, et al.

My areas of knowledge and expertise are:

• Coal combustion and gasification
• Turbulence
• Turbulent multiphase flows
• Turbulent combustion
• Computational fluid dynamics
• High performance computing
• Large eddy simulation
• Numerical methods
• Numerical solution of partial differential equations
• Eulerian and Lagrangian dispersed phase models

Copyediting Skills

• Latex/bibtex - very experienced

• Wikitext - very experienced
  • My personal website http://www.charlesmartinreid.com is a wiki powered by MediaWiki

• HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL - very experienced
  • I host and serve my own webpage from a Linux server running LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP)
  • I have skinned MediaWiki for my personal webpage, which requires some very advanced CSS

• Image conversion - very experienced
  • Have used ImageMagick extensively