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Ching-Long Lin

Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

The University of Iowa
Iowa City, Iowa 52242-1527
Office: 319 335-5673
Fax: 319 335-5669
Email: ching-long-lin@uiowa.edu

Education

7/89 - 1/94 PhD, Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University Stanford, California
9/88 - 6/89 MS, Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California
9/82 - 6/86 BS, Mechanical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan, ROC

Professional Employment

7/07 Professor, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
7/03 - 6/07 Associate Professor, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
1/97 - 6/03 Assistant Professor, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
7/96 - 12/96 Research Coordinator, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado
3/94 - 6/96 Visiting Scientist, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado

Fellowship, Honors, Awards

2004 Career Development Award, The University of Iowa
1999 CAREER Award, National Science Foundation
1997 Old Gold Summer Fellowship, The University of Iowa
1988 Rotary International Scholarship
1986 Elected to the member of the Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society
1982-1986 Four times recipient of Book Coupon Award from National Taiwan University for being in top five percent of 137 students and was ranked first twice.

Research Interests

Flow Physics:

  • Multiphase flows, interfacial phenomena, and fluid-structure interaction
  • Turbulent flow
  • Pulmonary flow

Numerical Techniques:

  • Four-Dimensional Data Assimilation (Numerical Optimization)
  • Mesoscopic Lattice Boltzmann Method
  • Macroscopic Large-Eddy Simulation
  • Level-Set Method, Phase Field Method
  • ALE and Immersed Boundary Methods
  • Parallel and Grid Computing

Synergistic Activities (external only)

  • Reviewer for National Science Foundation proposals, Journal of Computational Physics, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Physics of Fluids, Physical Review E, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, Journal of Applied Meteorology, Boundary Layer Meteorology, Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow,  International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluid, International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, Computer Physics Communication, Flow Turbulence and Combustion, Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans, and AIAA-Journal
  • Member of Interagency Modeling and Analysis Group (IMAG) MultiScale Modeling (MSM) Consortium, 2005-current. IMAG includes agencies from NIH, NSF, NASA, DOE, DOD, and USDA. The mission of the consortium is to develop methodologies for model sharing and promote scientific collaboration.
  • Primary Reviewer on the NIH Respiratory Integrative Biology and Translational Research Study Section, February, 2006.
  • Committee Member, AMS Boundary Layers and Turbulence, 2002-2006
  • Symposium Co-chair, AMS Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, May 2006
  • Session Co-chair, Remote Sensing and Data Assimilation, AMS Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, May 2006
  • Session Chair, Computational Fluid Dynamics, 54th Annual Meeting of Division of Fluid Dynamics, American Physical Society, 2001
  • Members APS, ASEE, ASME, BMES and AMS

Seminars and  Invited Talks

  • A Digital Lung for Multi-scale Simulation of Pulmonary Air Flow, Carleton Life Support Systems, Davenport, Iowa, March 31, 2006.
  • Multiscale Simulation of Air Flow in the CT-based Human Lung Model, Applied Mathematical and Computational Sciences Seminar, The University of Iowa, March, 24, 2006.
  • A Digital Lung for Multi-scale Simulation of Pulmonary Air Flow, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, Dec. 22, 2005.
  • A Digital Lung for Multi-scale Simulation of Pulmonary Air Flow, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Dec. 21, 2005.
  • A Digital Lung for Multi-scale Simulation of Pulmonary Air Flow, National Center for High Performance Computing, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Dec. 20, 2005.
  • A Digital Lung for Multi-scale Simulation of Pulmonary Air Flow, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, ME Graduate Seminar, Daejeon, Korea, Dec. 13, 2005.
  • A Digital Lung for Multi-scale Simulation of Pulmonary Air Flow, BME Graduate Seminar, University of Iowa, Oct. 13, 2005
  • Lattice Boltzmann Simulation of Virtual Wall Dynamics, the 14th International Conference on Discrete Simulation of Fluid Dynamics in Complex Systems, Kyoto, Japan, Aug 22, 2005.
  • CFD Simulation of Airflow and Gas Transport in the Human Lungs, University of California, Los Angeles, May 24, 2005.
  • Data Driven Simulations: From Atmospheric Sciences to Health Sciences, Arizona State University, November 3, 2004.
  • CFD Simulation of Airflow in the Human Lung Models, Joint ME/IIHR Graduate Seminar, September 9, 2004.
  • Retrieval of Microscale Turbulence Structures from High-Resolution Doppler Lidar Data Using an Adjoint Model, Depart. Physics & Astronomy, the University of Iowa, February 24, 2003.
  • Two Phase Flow Simulation Using Lattice Boltzmann Method and Level Set Method, IIHR seminar, October, 2002.
  • A Four-dimensional Variational Data Assimilation Approach to Study Turbulent Structures in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer, Department of Theoretical & Applied Mechanics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, November 9, 2000.
  • Four-Dimensional Data Assimilation of Coherent Structures in a Simulated Convective Boundary Layer, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, June 2, 2000.
  • Adjoint Retrieval of Turbulent Structures in Simulated Convective Boundary Layer, National Center for Atmospheric Research, June 1, 2000.
  • Retrieval of Flow Structures in a Convective Boundary Layer Using an Adjoint Model, ME/IIHR Graduate Seminar, the University of Iowa, March 9, 2000.
  • Turbulent Coherent Structures, Large-Eddy Simulation and Four-Dimensional Data Assimilation, Department of Mathematics, the University of Iowa, February 4, 1999.
  • The effect of surface roughness on flow structures in a neutrally stratified planetary boundary layer flow, ME/IIHR Graduate Seminar, the University of Iowa, January 30, 1997.