Prof. Dr. Patrick Jenny

In May 2003 Patrick Jenny joined the Institute of Fluid Dynamics at the ETH Zurich as a SNF-Professor of Computational Fluid Dynamics. In August 2006 he was named Associate Professor.

In 1997 he received his PhD in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) under the supervision of Professor Bernhard Müller at the ETH Zurich. His research was mainly about developing numerical algorithms to solve the compressible Navier-Stokes equations for reactive flow with applications to studies of thermoacoustic instabilities.

From July 1997 till October 1999 he was a member of Professor Stephen B. Pope's Turbulence and Combustion Group in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department of Cornell University in the Unites States. His research dealt with probability density function (PDF) modeling of turbulent reactive flow. The time was primarily spent to develop a new hybrid Monte Carlo/finite-volume algorithm for solving the fully joint velocity-frequency-composition PDF transport equation for turbulent reactive flow.

From November 1999 till April 2003 he was in the reservoir simulation and optimization research group of ChevronTexaco in San Ramon, California. He worked on the company's next generation oil reservoir simulator project and his main responsibilities included discretization issues, muli-scale modeling and PDF modeling for uncertainty assessment in oil reservoir simulation.

Patrick Jenny received the National Latsis Prize 2005.