Fluids Committee

Engineering Mechanics Division

Members of the Fluids Committee (Effective October 1, 1999):

  1. Norbert L. Ackermann (94/02), Control Group Member, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY 13699-5710. Tel: 315-268-6550 Fax: 315-268-7985 Email: nla@sun.soe.clarkson.edu WWW: http://people.clarkson.edu/~cee/ Interests: granular flows, open channel hydraulics, porous media flows

  2. Alexander H.-D. Cheng (95-03), 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. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. Nikolaos D. Katopodes (93/01), 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

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. Hayley H. Shen (88/00), Past Chair, 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

  13. Michelle H. Teng (97/01), 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

  14. 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

  15. Keh-Han Wang (91/03), Vice 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

  16. 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

  17. 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