Christopher Bowers, PhD., Computational Analyst in Modeling and Simulations at XCMR completed his PhD at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with a focus on complex fluid dynamics. He has extensive experience in computational fluid dynamics, using open-source software to model flow in porous media on high-speed supercomputers. Christopher also has experience in experimental techniques that span a variety of engineering disciplines, including chemical analysis of water and wastewater, observation well drilling, and bench-scale radioactive tracer studies.
Christopher brings his computational experience to XCMR, using ray-tracing and fluid dynamic modeling software to aid in design of UV disinfection technology. By using such simulation techniques, new prototypes can be designed and tested more efficiently than if we only used physical experiments.
Dr. Bowers has received his BSE in environmental engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor with a minor in mathematics. He has given several presentations at international scientific conferences, and published papers in the best environmental engineering and physics journals.
