Biography and Expertise

Keywords: Computational fluid dynamics; Multiscale modeling; Parallel computing; Image analysis; Lung

Present Research Interests:

  • Multiscale simulation of gas flow and particle transport in the human lungs
  • Turbulent flow in complex geometry
  • Fluid-structure interaction,
  • Parallel computing

Special Fields of Knowledge:

  • Large-eddy simulation
  • Turbulent flow
  • High-performance computation
  • Level-set method
  • Lattice-Boltzmann method
  • Two-phase flow
  • Four-dimensional data assimilation

Research Areas:

  • Level-set simulation of two-phase flow
  • Free-surface turbulence
  • Lattice-Boltzmann simulation of liquid-gas
  • Liquid-liquid and fluid-solid interactions for microfluidics
  • Four-dimensional assimilation of atmospheric LiDAR data
  • Pulmonary flow

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Honors

CAREER
National Science Foundation

Associations

American Physical Society
American Society for Engineering Education
American Society of Mechanical Engineers - Bioengineering Division

Organizational Affiliations

Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Iowa

Radiology, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa

Roy J. Carver Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Iowa

Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Iowa

Education

Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
1994, PhD, Stanford University
Mechanical Engineering
1989, MS, Stanford University
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
1986, BS, National Taiwan University, Taiwan