Lea-Der Chen

Joined the College of Engineering: 1982 

Education: Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, 1981
M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, 1979
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, National Taiwan University, 1974

Special Fields of Knowledge: Combustion; thermodynamics; fluid mechanics; heat transfer; fuel cell.

Present Research Interests: Combustion; fuel cell; micro-reactors; renewable and alternative energy..

Selected Publications:

• Zhou, Ge, Chen, Lea-Der, and Seaba, James P., "Modeling of shunt current in liquid electrolytes fuel cells," ASME Paper FUELCELL2006-97103, 2006 (The 4th International Conference on Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology, 19-21 June 2006, Irvine CA).
• Gan, Mingei and Chen, Lea-Der, "Analytical Solution for Two-Phase Flow in PEMFC Gas Diffusion Layer," ASME Paper FUELCELL2006-97103, 2006 (The 4th International Conference on Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology, 19-21 June 2006, Irvine CA).
• Lee, T.H., Lin, Ching-Long, and Chen, L-D, "A Lattice Boltzmann Algorithm for Calculation of the Laminar Jet Diffusion Flame," Journal of Computational Physics, 215(133-152) 2006.
• Seaba, J.P. and Chen, L-D., "Method for Processing Fluid Flows in a Micro Component Reformer System," United States Patent No., 6949113, September 2005.
• Venuturumilli, R., and Chen, L-D., "Numerical Simulation of Laminar Jet Diffusion Flames Using an Adaptive Grid," Numerical Heat Transfer B: Fundamentals, 46(101-120) 2004.

Active Scientific and Professional Society Memberships: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers; Society of Automotive Engineers; Transportation Research Board; The Combustion Institute; The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics; American Society for Engineering Education.