Fluids Committee

Engineering Mechanics Division

Members of the Fluids Committee (Effective October 1, 2002):

  1. Andy Tak-Yee Chan (02-06), Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong. Tel: 28597905 Email: atchan@hkucc.hku.hk Interests: waves in porous media, contaminant transport, free-surface waves
  2. Alexander H.-D. Cheng (95-03), Executive Committee Contact Member, Control Group Member, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Mississippi, University, MS 38677. Tel: 662-915-5362 Fax: 662-915-5523 Email: acheng@olemiss.edu WWW: http://home.olemiss.edu/~acheng/ Interests: groundwater flow, water resources, saltwater intrusion, mechanics of porous materials, boundary element method, meshless method.
  3. Allen T. Chwang (98-06), 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. 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
  5. Donald D. Gray (98-06), Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, West Virginia University, P.O. Box 6103, Morgantown, WV 26506-6103. Tel. 304-293-4024 Ext 2642 Ext 642 Fax. 304-293-7109 Email: gray@cemr.wvu.edu WWW: http://www.cee.cemr.wvu.edu/faculty/faculty-detail.php?id=81&type=faculty Interests: non-Newtonian fluid flows, magnetic forces
  6. Ben R. Hodges (01-05) Dept. of Civil Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Mail Code C1700, Austin, TX 78712-1076, Tel: 512-471-4730 Fax:512-471-5870, Email: hodges@mail.utexas.edu Interests: environmental fluid mechanics, turbulence modeling and internal waves.
  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 (98-06), 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 (02-06), University of Pittsburgh, Department of Civil Engineering 949 Benedum Hall, Pittsburgh, PA 15261. Tel: 412-624-9870 Fax: 412-624-0135 Email: tkhung@engr.pitt.edu Interests: bio-fluid mechanics, internal flows, poroelastic flows
  10. Nikolaos D. Katopodes (93-05), 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 (98-06), Department of Civil Engineering, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 18015. Tel: 610-738-3558 FAX: 610-758-6405 Email: gpl0@lehigh.edu
  13. Chiu-On Ng (01-05), Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong, Tel: 852-2859-2622 Fax: 852-2858-5415 Email: cong@hku.hk Interests: contaminant transport, flow in porous medium, ground subsidence.
  14. Jin Y. Ooi (97-05), Department of Civil Engineering, Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, Scotland EH9 3JN, United Kingdom. Email: j.ooi@ed.ac.uk
  15. Thanos Papanicolaou (00-04), Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Washington State University, P.O. Box 642910, Pullman, WA 99164-2910. Email: apapanic@wsu.edu
  16. Hayley H. Shen (00-04), 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@clarkson.edu WWW: http://www.clarkson.edu/cee/facultyandstaff.html  Interests: granular flows, fulid-particle interactions, mutiphase flows, wave and ice interactions, physical polar ocean processes
  17. Michelle H. Teng (97-05), 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 WWW: http://www.eng.hawaii.edu/~teng/DCV/michelle.html Interests: nonlinear waves, wave hydrodynamics
  18. Francis C.K. Ting (98-06), Department of 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
  19. Christina W.-S. Tsai (02-06), Department of Civil, Structure and Environmental Engineering, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14221. Tel: (716) 645-2114 ext 2414 Fax: (716) 645-3667 Email: ctsai4@eng.buffalo.edu Interests: shallow water waves, stochastic modeling
  20. Keh-Han Wang (91-03), Vice Chair (Past 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
  21. Pei-Fang Wang (98-06), 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
  22. Anthony Neil Williams (01-05), Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204-4003, Tel: 713-743-4269, Fax:713-743-4260, Email: awilliams@uh.edu Interests: wave-structure interaction, computational hydrodynamics, dynamic response of offshore structures.
  23. Scott A. Yost (00-04), Department of Civil Engineering, University of Kentucky, 354C Raymond Building, Lexington, Kentucky 40506-0281 Tel: (859) 257-4816, Fax: (859) 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.
  24. 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