ProfessorDr. George P.G. Huang
Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, George Huang was the head of the UK Computational Fluid Dynamics group. Previous to his arrival at the University of Kentucky in 1996, Dr. Huang was a Senior Research Scientist at MCAT/ELORET/NASA-Ames where he was a co-author of the award-winning OVERSET Tools for CFD analysis. His current reserach interests include laminar-turbulent transition, advanced turbulent models and computational schemes, multi-processor CFD, and technology transfer between academia, government laboratories, and industry. He is currently working as department head at Wright State University. |
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Post-Doctoral Researcher, Moujin Zhang arrived at the University of Kentucky after receiving his Ph.D. from Xi'an Jiaotong University. He performed validation research on Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) and Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) with DNSTool and cubic Reynolds stress-strain models on swirling flows. He is now a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Wayne State University. Engineering Associate, Guohua Xiong arrived at UK with a Ph.D. from Tsinghua University in Beijing after a post-doctoral stint at Louisiana State University. Dr. Xiong has worked on laminar-turbulent transition, low-pressure turbine simulations, and laser printer component simulations (with LexMark). His most recent research was on CFD of heat transfer management for the Rockwell Science Center. He is currently working at Network Appliance, Inc. to perform CFD calculations of flows in complex circuit-board passages. |
Doctoral Graduate Student Zhiping Wang got his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering in May. Mr. Wang obtained his BS and MS degree from Tsinghua University of China. His thesis is a study of numerical schemes for CFD, in particular the development of a new hybrid numerical technique called the ENO-Pade scheme. He is a Senior Product Engineer at Morrison Products, Inc. and involved in vibration testing and analysis, CFD simulation of blowers and fans, product noise measurement and analysis, development of new products. Doctoral Graduate Student Liang Huang successfully defended his Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering in April, 2004. Before coming to Kentucky, Mr. Huang obtained his BS and MS degree from Tsinghua University of China. His dissertation research focused on the development of genetic algorithms for flow control using parallel computers and its application to 2-D simulation of microjets for boundary layer flow control. Dr. Huang is currently employed in California. |
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Assistant Professor Thomas Hauser came to UK after receiving his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Technology, Munich. Dr. Hauser is the primary developer of DNSTool, a cutting-edge CFD code based on Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) and Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) turbulence techinques. He is also involved in the low-pressure turbine, the PeTS CFD system, and the application of evolutionary algorithm to CFD projects. Dr. Hauser is currently at Utah State University where he is working on a variety of CFD projects, including flow around sounding rockets, CFD on new hardware platforms (like FPGA's), and CFD code performance. Post-Doctoral Researcher, Konstantinos Vogiatzis joined the CFD group after receiving his PhD in Engineering Science from Louisiana State University, where he developed spectral DNS and LES codes with domain decomposition for turbulent flows in complex geometries. Currently his research focuses on validation, through RANS simulations, of Reynolds stress turbulence models as candidates for application to the 21st century aircraft project. He is currently working for National Optical Astronomy Observatories as a research scientist to perform CFD calculations of flow around the telescopes.
Yildirim Bora Suzen Assistant Professor Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mathematics North Dakota State University Bora Suzen is a Ph.D. graduate of Wichita State University in Aerospace Engineering. Dr. Suzen worked on techniques to accurately simulate the laminar-turbulent transition in engineering flows. Much of his research concentrated on turbomachinery aerodynamics, in particular low-pressure turbine flows, where the nature of transitional region over the turbine blade is a major determinant of turbine efficiency. He also works on the simulation of plasma-driven flow control. Dr. Suzen is currently an Assistant Professor in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at North Dakota State University at Fargo, where he continues his work on transitional flows and plasma flow control. Visiting Scholar, Ming Chun Hsu was a visiting scholar from National Cheng-Kung University Taiwan, where he worked on numerical simulation in particle-laden flows using Large Eddy Simulation (LES). His research at UK focused on turbulence modeling validation and testing for complex flows. Post-Doctoral Researcher, Charles L. Leakeas earned his Ph.D. in Engineering Science and Mechanics from the University of Alabama, where he worked on CFD modeling of chemically reacting flows inside chemical vapor deposition (CVD) reactors. His current area of research includes the validation of turblence models for both compressible and incompressible flows. Dr. Leakeas received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University and a M.S. in Applied Mathematics from Purdue University. Visiting Professor, Current Research: Post-Doctoral Researcher, Hua Chen earned his Ph.D. in Aeronautics & Astronautics engineering from the National Cheng Kung University Taiwan, where he worked on the mechanisms of shock and blast/vortex interaction, and reducing noise from shock and blast/vortex interaction. His research at UK included the optimizing CFD codes on clusters, hybrid turbulence modeling, and the development and validation of the UNCLE unstructured grid code. He left UK to take an academic position at Leader University in Tainan, Taiwan. Related Research:
Post-Doctoral Researcher, Valerio Viti obtained his Doctorate from Virginia Tech. His research focused on the numerical simulation of innovative jet interaction configurations to be used as jet-thrusters on hypersonic vehicles. His work included the validation of turbulence models in compressible/incompressible flows. Valerio obtained a B.Eng and an M.Eng in Aeronautical Engineering from City University, London, UK and spent one year as an intern at the ABB Corporate Research Center in Baden, Switzerland, where he worked on reducing the heat transfer to turbine blades. He is currently working at the University of Kentucky with Dr. Kozo Saito. Dr. John Tam Post-Doctoral Researcher, Mechanical Engineering Post-Doctoral Researcher, Chih-Hao Chang received his Ph.D. in aerospace engineering from the National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan, ROC. Before he came to UK, he once was a Post-doctoral Research Associate in Academia Sinica, Taiwan, and National Research Council (NRC) Research Associate in NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland. His current research topic is on the numerical algorithm of compressible multiphase flow and shock capturing method, especially in the shock-fluid interface interaction problem. Now he is also working on developing and validating a parallel compressible NS solver. He is currently an Assistant Researcher in the University of California, Santa Barbara. Lab. Research Assistant:Mr. Shih-Che Huang Graduate Student, Shih-Che Huang got his BS degree in computer science from the University of Kentucky in Dec. 2004. He is currently a University Scholar and is expected to get a MS degree from the University of Kentucky in Dec. 2005. He had a BS degree from National Taipei University in Taiwan. He was working in charge of the webpage design and the computer software and hardware maintenance for the CFD group. PC Cluster Parallel File System is my current working project, which is proposed to accelerate Input/Output (I/O) performance on PC Clusters. He is currently working for Lexmark International Inc. Undergraduate/Other Students: Mr. Darsh Ranjan Darsh Ranjan was a high school student in the Dunbar High School Science & Technology magnet program. His senior project was on CFD simulation of the blood flow sampling device. His work resulted in the best student paper award in an ASME conference - 3rd International Symposium on Computational technologies for Fluid/Thermal/Chemical System with Industrial Applications, Atlanta, GA July 22-26,2001. Mr. Ranjan is now a freshman at Princeton University. |
Graduate Student Sai completed his Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering in 2004. His thesis topic was examining the sensitivities of Detached Eddy Simulation (DES) in two case of homogeneous turbulence. Before coming to UK, he received his B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India. After UK, Sai went to pursue a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Rutgers University. Graduate Student Vimal Kumar has completed his coursework for a M.S. degree of UK in Mechanical Engineering and has a Bachelor’s degree from Osmania University, India. While at UK, he conducted research on modeling transient, 2-D, free surface flows with surface tension using VOF techniques and on the applicability to hybrid turbulence models to planetary atmospheres. Vimal is working on his thesis while gainfully employed in California. Graduate Student, Vamsidhar Reddy graduated in May, 2005 with a M.S. in Mechanical Engineering. He acquired his B.S from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, India. His research focused on the development, testing and validation of Morphing Wing concepts. Graduate Student, Satish Kumar Chimakurthi completed his Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering in 2004. His thesis topic was the development of a fluid-structure interaction code linking UK CFD codes to structural dynamics solvers like ANSYS, part of a large project targetting cable-stayed bridges. Previously, he had received a B.E from the Osmania University, Hyderabad, India. Mr Chimakurthi left UK to pursue his Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan. Graduate Student, Justin Brown graduated in May, 2002 with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Kentucky. He then completed his Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering in 2003 as a University Scholar. His thesis investigated the feasibility of using CFD for the accurate prediction of mine ventilation phenomena. Justin was hired of out UK by General Electric, Louisville, Kentucky. Graduate Student, Phani Kumar Bolloju completed his BS in Mechanical Engineering from Osmania University. He graduated with a M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from UK in 2004. With UK CFD, he conducted some research on the Essentially Non-Oscillatory High Order Pade Type (ENO-Pade Type) numerical scheme. Graduate Student, Srinivas Reddy received his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering in 2004. He previously received a B.S. from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, India. His research focused on modeling flow transition using an intermittency transport equation. He is currently working as a CFD consultant in Cincinnati, OH. Graduate Student Pavan has completed the coursework for his Masters program in Mechanical Engineering at UK after completing his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, India. His primary area of research was optimizing CFD code "GHOST" on various commodity clusters like the KFC series and UK HP Superdome. He is currently finishing his thesis while gainfully employed. Graduate Student Chandra M Yadaraju graduated with M.S. (Option B) in Mechanical Engineering in December, 2005. .He received his Bachelor's degree (B.Tech) from J.N.T.U. College of Engineering, Kakinada, INDIA. His research focus was on optimizing the I/O performance of a CFD code GHOST using the Parallel Virtual File System (PVFS) and portable CGNS file format. Mr. Chaitanya P.S.K. Penugonda Graduate Student Chaitanya is a graduate student in Mechanical Engineering Department at University of Kentucky. He received his Bachelor's degree (B.Tech) from J.N.T.U. College of Engineering, Kakinada, INDIA. His research is focused on setting up Fluid Structure Interaction( FSI ) model using GHOST(in-house built fluid solver) and ANSYS with PYTHON scripting language as interface. Doctoral Graduate Student, Ahmad A. Salaimeh is PhD student in Mechanical Engineering with a B.S. from The University of Jordan,Jordan. His research focuses on developing a Higher Order Implicit Scheme on Unstructed Grids using Spectral Finite Differance Method. He is currently working at the University of Kentucky with Dr. Kozo Saito. Doctoral Graduate Student, Sunil is doing his masters program in Mechanical Engineering having done his B.E from University College of Engineering, Osmania University, Hyderabad, India. His research is focused on flow modeling in heat recovery steam generator. CFD tool used for this is Fluent. He is currently working on a project, for VOGT power international. He is currently working at the Wright State University with Dr. George Huang. Doctoral Graduate Student, Nelson Akafuah is a visiting PhD student in Mechanical engineering from the University of New Orleans (UNO). He is currently at UK due to the devastation cause to New Orleans and UNO by Hurricane Katrina. He obtained his Bachelor's degree in Mechanical engineering from University of Science and Technology, Kumasi Ghana and Master's degree in Mechanical engineering from the University of New Orleans. He is currently working at the University of Kentucky with Dr. Kozo Saito. Graduate Student, Saurabh is a graduate student in Mechanical engineering at UK. He has completed his Bachelor's degree in Mechanical engineering from Osmania University in India. He is currently working on optimization of unstructured CFD codes on commmodity clusters. Graduate Student, Anand Palki completed his undergraduation in Mechanical Engineering from RVCE, Bangalore in 2003. He then worked as a software engineer at SCT Software India for a year. He graduated with a Masters in Mechanical Engineering at UK. His research was focused in the cache based optimization of the CFD code "GHOST" using grid blocking techniques. He is currently working at Vogt Power International, Louisville, KY as a thermal design engineer. Mr. Narendra Beliganur Kotragouda Graduate Student, Narendra K.Beliganur has received his Bachelor's of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering from SJCE, Mysore, India in the year 2002. He has worked as a Software Engineer for more than 2 years before joining UK. He joined UK in Fall 2005 to pursue his Masters in Mechanical Engineering. His research is on flow control and flow control optimization using evolutionary algorithms, Neural networks and CFD analysis.
Graduate Student, Daniel A. Reasor Jr. completed his Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering in 2006 and his Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering in 2007 at UK. His thesis focused on the implementation of the Suzen-Huang dielectric barrier discharge plasma actuator model in UNCLE and numerical simulations of "bumpy" airfoils using GHOST. Mr. Reasor left UK to pursue his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. |
