Fluids Committee

Engineering Mechanics Division

Members of the Fluids Committee (Effective October 1, 2000):

  1. (David) Andrew Barry (00-04), School of Civil & Environmental Engineering, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland EH10 5XD, United Kingdom. Tel: +44(131)650-7204 Fax: +44(131)650-7276 Email: a.barry@ed.ac.uk WWW: http://webdb.ucs.ed.ac.uk/pub/staff.cfm?PERSON=DAB
  2. Alexander H.-D. Cheng (95-03), Past Chair, Control Group Member, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716. Tel: 302-831-6787 Fax: 302-831-3640 Email: cheng@chaos.ce.udel.edu WWW: http://www.ce.udel.edu/faculty/cheng/ Interests: groundwater flow, water resources, saltwater intrusion, poromechanics, BEM, ocean acoustics.
  3. Allen T. Chwang (98-02), Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong. Tel. 852-2859-2634 Fax. 852-2858-5415 Email: atchwang@hkucc.hku.hk WWW: http://hkumea.hku.hk/acad_atychwang.html Interests: wave mechanics, hydrodynamics
  4. Manhar R Dhanak (97-01), Department of Ocean Engineering, Florida Atlantic University, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton, FL 33431, USA. Tel. 561-367-2827 Fax: 561-367-3885 Email: dhanak@oe.fau.edu WWW: http://www.oe.fau.edu/~manhar Interests: acoustics and vibration, continuum mechanics, rotating flows.
  5. Ahmad Ghassemi (00-04), Geology and Geological Engineering, Box 8358, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND 58202. Tel: 701-777-3213 Fax: 701-777-4449 Email: ahmad_ghassemi@mail.und.nodak.edu
  6. Donald D. Gray (98-02), Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, West Virginia University, P.O. Box 6103, Morgantown, WV 26506. Tel. 304-293-3031 Ext 642 Fax. 304-293-7109 Email: dgray@wvu.edu Interests: non-Newtonian fluid flows, magnetic forces
  7. Chin-Tasu Hsu (99-03), Department of Mechanical Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong. Tel: 852-2358-7188 Fax: 852-2358-1543 Email: mecthsu@ust.hk Interests: Jets and plumes, water waves, heat transfer in porous media
  8. James Sau-Lon Hu (98-02), Department of Ocean Engineering, University of Rhode Island, 217 Sheets Bldg., Narragansett, RI 02882-1197. Tel: 401-874-6688 Fax: 401-874-6837 Email: hu@oce.uri.edu Interests: ocean engineering
  9. Tin-Kan Hung (94-02), University of Pittsburgh, Department of Civil Engineering 949 Benedum Hall, Pittsburgh, PA 15261. Tel: 412-624-9870 Fax: 412-624-0135 Email: tkhung+@pitt.edu Interests: bio-fluid mechanics, internal flows, poroelastic flows
  10. Nikolaos D. Katopodes (93-01), Control Group Member, Department of Civil Engineering University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, Tel: 313-763-9665 Fax: 614-793-2410 Email: ndk@engin.umich.edu WWW: http://www.personal.engin.umich.edu/~ndk Interests: environmental fluid mechanics, open channel flow, water wave mechanics
  11. James T. Kirby (91-03), Control Group Member, Center for Applied Coastal Research, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716. Tel: 302-831-2438 Fax: 302-831-1228 Email: kirby@coastal.udel.edu WWW: http://chinacat.coastal.udel.edu/kirby/ Interests: water wave mechanics, nonlinear dynamics, time series analysis
  12. Gerard P. Lennon (98-02), Department of Civil Engineering, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 18015. Tel: 610-738-3558 FAX: 610-758-6405 Email: gpl0@lehigh.edu
  13. Jin Y. Ooi (97/01), Department of Civil Engineering, Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, Scotland EH9 3JN, United Kingdom. Email: Jin@civ.ed.ac.uk
  14. Thanos Papanicolaou (00-04), Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Washington State University, P.O. Box 642910, Pullman, WA 99164-2910. Email: apapanic@wsu.edu
  15. Hayley H. Shen (00-04), Executive Committee Contact Member, Control Group Member, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY 13699-5710. Tel: 315-268-6614 Fax: 315-268-7985 Email: hhshen@sun.soe.clarkson.edu WWW: http://people.clarkson.edu/~cee/ Interests: granular flows, fulid-particle interactions, mutiphase flows, wave and ice interactions, physical polar ocean processes
  16. Michelle H. Teng (97-01), Vice Chair, Control Group Member, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2540 Dole Street, Holmes Hall 383, Honolulu, HI 96822. Tel: (808)956-5060 Fax: (808)956-5014 Email: teng@wiliki.eng.hawaii.edu Interests: nonlinear waves, wave hydrodynamics
  17. Francis C.K. Ting (98-02), Dept. Civil and Environmental Engineering, South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD 57007-0495 Tel. 605-688-5997 Fax: 605-688-5878 Email: tingf@mg.sdstate.edu Interests: fluid-structure interaction, water wave mechanics, open channel flows
  18. Keh-Han Wang (91-03), Chair, Control Group Member, Department of Civil and Environmental Egineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-4791. Tel: 713-667-4277 Fax: 713-743-4260 Email: khwang@uh.edu Interests: fluid-structure interaction, water wave mechanics, open channel flows
  19. Pei-Fang Wang (98-02), Marine Environmental Quality Branch, SPAWAR Systems Center, D362, 53475 Strothe Rd., San Diego, CA 92152-6335. Tel. 619-553-9192 Fax: 619-553-6305 Email: pfwang@spawar.navy.mil Interests: Hydrodynamics, environmental transport modeling, contaminant fate and transport for surface water
  20. Scott A. Yost (00-04), Department of Civil Engineering, University of Kentucky, 354C Raymond Building, Lexington, Kentucky 40506-0281 Tel: (606) 257-4816, Fax: (606) 257-4404 Email: yostsa@engr.uky.edu Interest: Parallel computational Fluid Mechanics, numerical solution of Navier-Stokes equations, transport processes in surface water systems, hydrologic modeling, non-linear optimization for water resources.
  21. Song-Ping Zhu (99-03), Department of Mathematics, University of Wollongong, Northfileds Ave., Wollongong NSW 2522, Australia. Tel. 61-42-21-3807 Fax: 61-42-21-4845 Email: songping_zhu@uow.edu.au Interests: environmental fluid mechanics, boundary element methods