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Curriculum Vitae

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Educational Background

1967 - Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado.
1959 - M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois.
1955 - B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.

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Professional Experience

Service on this Faculty: 32 years beginning in 1967.

1990 - Present; Distinguished Professor, University of Alabama System Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (UAH)
1986 - Present; Director, Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research (Founder and 1st Director)
1995 - Present; Director, Institute for Space Physics, Astrophysics and Education (Founder and 1st Director)
1991 - Present; Adjunct Professor of Chemical Engineering
1972 - 1990; Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
1973 - Present; Adjunct Professor of Physics
1969 - 1972; Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
1967 - 1969; Assistant Research Professor
1964 - (March - September); Research Associate

Other Related Experience

Industrial

Research

Teaching

Consulting

Lectures Presented

Dr. Wu has presented a more than 400 talks since 1963 at international and national meetings, seminars and colloquiums. Foreign countries include: Canada, Mexico, England, Germany, France, Switzerland, Sweden, Italy, The Netherlands, Scottland, Greece, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Russia, China, India, Japan, Australia, Ireland, Singapore, Brazil, and Argentina.

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Honors and Awards

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National

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Membership in Professional Societies

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Theses and Dissertations Directed

Ph.D. Theses Completed

Total of 21; 14 in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and 7 in Physics (see list below)

Theses Directed, Ph.D., Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering & Physics

"Coupling of High Temperature Heat Transfer and Supersonic Fluid Dynamics Studies", 1998, Ph.D., Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering by Kevin Drew Kennedy.

"Numerical Method for Liquid Spray" 1996, Ph.D., Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering by Shih-Fung (Steve) Perng

"Three-Dimensional Current Collection Model in Space" 1994, Ph.D., Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering by Aichyun Shiah

"Numerical Simulation of Interplanetary Dynamics" 1993, Ph.D., Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering by Chin-Chun Wu

"Three-Dimensional, Time-Dependent MHD Model of Extended Corona", 1992, Ph.D., Department of Physics by Ai-Hua Wang

"A New Pressure-Velocity Method for All-Speed Flows with Arbitrary Geometric Boundaries: Modified FICE Method" 1992, Ph.D., Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, by Ning Zhou

"Three-Dimensional Time-Dependent Fluid Flow Simulations: Ordinary and Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) Fluid, 1991, Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering by Ming-Tsung Sun

"Numerical Analyses of Aero-Optical Flows: An Application of Parallel Algorithm on High Performance Personal Computer (PC) Base Multi-transputer System", 1990, Mechanical Engineering, Ph.D., by Stephen C. Chan

"A Numerical Simulation Model for the Study of Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) Waves in A Structured Medium", 1988, Ph.D., Physics by Yingcai Xiao.

"An Adaptive Grid Finite Difference Method for Time-Dependent Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) Flows and Its Astrogeophysical Applications", 1987, Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering by Supat Panitchob.

"Transient Non-Newtonian Flow and Heat Transfer", 1987, Ph.D., Mechancial Engineering by Dezso Somogyi.

"Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) Simulation of the Prominence Formation", 1987, Ph.D., Physics by Jinjun Bao.

"Numerical Simulation of Multiple Jet Interaction", 1986, Ph.D., Mechancial Engineering by S. Don Bai.

"MHD Description of the Confinement of Liquid Metals: A Containerless Process", 1985, Ph.D., Physics, by Charles Schafer.

"Combustion Characteristics of Solvent Rarefied Coal as a Solid Rocket Fuel" 1982, Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, by Richard Kramer.

"Evolution of a Flare Coronal Loop", 1980, Ph.D., Physics, by L. C. Kan.

"Model of the Mid- and Low-Latitude F-Region Ionosphere and the Plasmasphere", 1979, Ph.D., Physics by Arjun Tan.

"The Aerodynamics of Bodies in a Rarefied Ionized Gas with Application to Spacecraft Environmental Dynamics", 1979, Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, by Nobie Stone.

"A Numerical Study of Two-Dimensional, Time-Dependent Magnetohydrodynamic Flows and Its Applications", 1976, Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, by S. M. Han.

"Kinetic Description of Ionospheric Dynamics in the Three-Fluid Approximation", 1975, Ph.D., Physics, by Hugh Comfort.

"Analysis of Bow Shock Structure at Stagnation Region Subject to External Radiation", 1969, Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, by J. Q. Lilly.

Ph.D. Students Currently Registered

Total of 3 (J. Cassibry, Gerald Russell), in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering UAH; (Bo Li) in Earth & Space Science (USTC, PRC)

M.S. Completed

Total of 25; 24 in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and 1 in Physics (see list below)

Thesis Directed, M.S., Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering & Physics

"A Numerical Analysis of Transonic Flow over the X-33 Vehicle" 1997, M.S., Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering by Alan Robert Droege.

"A Numerical Analysis of a Two-Dimensional Dual Bell Nozzle" 1997, M.S., Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering by Jeff Yu-Chin Lin

"Numerical Prediction of Entropy Generation in Duct Flow by Solution of Navier-Stokes Equations and K- Turbulence Model Using a Pressure Based Solution Algorithm", 1995, M.S., Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering by Stuart L. Nelson

"An Investigation of Aerothermal Modeling of a Low Altitude Ballistic Missile Using Engineering Approximation Methods", 1994, M.S., Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering by Stephen Clanton.

"A Numerical Analysis of Supersonic Flow over an Axisymmetric Afterbody", 1994, M. S., Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering by Paul Kevin Tucker.

"An Investigation of the Thermal Design and Analysis of a Tethered-Deployed Microsattellite in an Earth-Orbited Space Environment" 1994, M.S., Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering by Shawn P. Breeding.

"The Space Radiation Environment: Implications for Solar Array Design", 1994, M.S., Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering by David Beckett

"On the Study of the Accuracy of the PEM for the Extrapolation of Non-linear Force-Free Magnetic Fields" 1993, M.S., Mechanial and Aerospace Engineering by Fu-Shan Weng

"Convective Heat Transfer of a Sphere in a Subsonic Transitional Flow", 1992, M.S., Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, 1992 by Bruce Moylan

"A Numerical Study about Effects of Radiation on Hypersonic Flow in Non-Equilibrium Chemical Reacting Air - Shock Wave Boundary Layer Interaction", 1992, M.S., Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, by Yuhang Zhu

"A Numerical Investigation of Sonic Jet Injection for Aerodynamics Control in Supersonic Turbulent Flow", 1992, M.S., Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, by Steven W. Clark

"Utilization of Elliptic Flow Solver for the Analysis of Missile Body-Plume Flowfields", 1991, M.S., Mechanical Engineering by Kevin D. Kennedy

"A Numerical Approach to the Tracking of Contaminants in Air Distributions Systems", 1991, Mechanical Engineering by Eric T. Stewart

"A First-order Closure Model for a One-dimensional Neutral Planetary Boundary Layer with Solid-Gas and Liquid-vapor Interface Conditions", 1990, M.S., Mechanical Engineering by Susan L. Jenkins.

"An Experimental and Theoretical Investigation of the Interaction of Conduction and Radiation Heat Transfer in Space Vacuum Conditions", 1990, M.S., Mechanical Engineering by Linda Hornsby.

"Evaluation of an Approximate Technique to Predict Aeroassist Flight Experiment Aerodynamics in the Transition Region", 1990, M.S., Mechanical Engineering by James F. Alison, III.

"A Three-Dimensional, Time-Dependent Magnetohydrodynamic Numerical Analysis of the Propagation of Finite Disturbance in the Interplanetary Medium", 1989, M.S., Mechanical Engineering by Maurice John Prendergast.

"Numerical Solution of Nonlinear Force-Free Magnetic Field", 1986, M.S., Mechanical Engineering by Ming-tsung Sun.

"Inhibition of Conduction Heat Flow by Magnetic Constriction in the Corona and Transient Region: Dependence on the Shape of the Constriction", 1984, M.S., Physics, by James Dowdy, Jr.

"Distribution of Air Pollutants at the Two-Dimensional Stagnation Region" 1981, M.S., Mechanical Engineering, by Stephen C. Chan.

"Analysis of Return Flow Entrainment of a Liquid Storage Tank on a Solar Hot Water System", 1979, M.S., Mechanical Engineering, by N. Dalizu.

"MHD Boundary Layers with Ionization and Radiation", 1978, M.S., Mechanical Engineering, by Larry Altigilbers.

"A Finite Element Analysis of Radiation Heat Transfer in a Participating Medium", 1978, M.S., Mechanical Engineering, by R. Ferguson.

"Couette Flow of an Optically Thin Radiating and Conducting Gas", 1970, M.S., Mechancial Engineering, by C. F. Cline.

"An Experimental Investigation of Flow Conductance Through an Edgepumped Multilayer Insulation", 1969, M.S., Mechanical Engineering, by W. R. Humphries.

M.S. Students Currently Registered

Total of 1 (Andre LeClair), in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering UAH working on thesis

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Professional Activities

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National

Regional

University Service (selected)

Grant Proposal Review

Reviewer for Publications

Editor of Books

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