Dr. Mary F. Wheeler has been appointed a member of the board of governors for Argonne National Laboratory, a federal research facility in Illinois.
Argonne National Laboratory is one of the U.S. Department of Energy's largest and oldest research centers. With a staff of about 2,900 employees, Argonne annually supports more than of 200 research projects, ranging from studies of the atomic nucleus to global climate change research. Wheeler will serve on the board of governors’ nominating committee, helping choose new board members, and the administrative and budget committee, ensuring Argonne is managed effectively.
Wheeler holds the Ernest and Virginia Cockrell Chair in the Departments of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, and Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering. She directs the Center for Subsurface Modeling, which uses computer simulations to model the behavior of fluids in geological formations.
Her research covers a broad range, from computer modeling of estuaries and coastal waters to subsurface modeling for petroleum exploration applications, and reservoir engineering. She studies numerical solutions of partial differential systems with applications to flow in porous media, geomechanics, surface flow and parallel computation.
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