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Dr. Lian-Ping Wang

Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Delaware
126 Spencer Lab.
Newark, DE 19716-3140
E-mail: lwang@udel.edu

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DEGREES
Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Washington State University, 1990
B.S. in Applied Mathematics and Engineering Mechanics, Zhejiang University, 1984

SERVICE
Professor, University of Delaware, 2009 - present
Associate Professor, University of Delaware, 2001 - 2009
Assistant Professor, University of Delaware, 1994 - 2001

OTHER RELATED EXPERIENCE

  • Associate Editor, International Journal of Engineering Systems Modelling and Simulation, 9/2007 - present
  • Visiting Scientist, National Center for Atmospheric Research, 2003-present
  • Visiting Scientist, Lab for Nonlinear Mechanics, Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Science, 2006 - present
  • Joint Professor of Physical Ocean Science and Engineering, College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment, UD, 2008 - present
  • Associate Director, Delaware Center for Study of Space Radiation Effects, UD, 2009 - present
  • Affiliated Faculty Member, Center for Critical Zone Research, UD, 2008 - present
  • Faculty Fellow National Center for Atmospheric Research, 2005
  • Summer Faculty Researcher, NASA Langley Research Center, 2000
  • Research Associate, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Meteorology, The Pennsylvania State University, 1992-1994
  • Visiting Research Associate, Applied Mathematics and Center for Fluid Mechanics, Brown University, 1990-1992

CONSULTING
Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1993-1994, 1998
CFD Research Corp., 1996

STATE REGISTERED
NONE

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Journal Articles & Proceedings

  1. L.P. Wang, B. Rosa, H. Gao, G.W. He, G.D. Jin, 2009, "Turbulent collision of inertial particles: point-particle based, hybrid simulations and beyond", Int. J. Multiphase Flow, Vol. 35, pp. 854-867.
  2. W.W. Grabowski and L.P. Wang, 2009, "Diffusional and accretional growth of water drops in a rising adiabatic parcel: effects of the turbulent collision kernel." Atmos. Chem. Phys., 9, 2335-2353. 
  3. W.C. Hsieh, H. Jonsson, L.P. Wang, G. Buzorius, R.C. Flagan, J.H. Seinfeld, and A. Nenes, 2009, "On the representation of droplet coalescence and autoconversion: Evaluation using ambient cloud droplet size distributions." Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 114, D07201, doi:10.1029/2008JD010502.
  4.  L.P. Wang and W.W. Grabowski 2009 The role of air turbulence in warm rain initiation. Atmospheric Science Letters, vol. 10, pp. 1-8.
  5. Y. Xue, L.P. Wang, and W.W. Grabowski, 2008 "Growth of cloud droplets by turbulent collision-coalescence." Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, Vol. 65 (2), pp.331-356.
  6. O. Ayala, B. Rosa, L.P. Wang, 2008  "Corrigendum on Effects of Turbulence on the Geometric Collision Rate of Sedimenting Droplets: Part 2. Theory and Parameterization." New J. Physics, 10, 099802.
  7. L.P. Wang, O. Ayala, B. Rosa, W.W. Grabowski, 2008 - "Turbulent collision efficiency of heavy particles relevant to cloud droplets." New J. Physics (Focus issue on cloud physics), 10, 075013.   
  8. O. Ayala, B. Rosa, L.P. Wang, W.W. Grabowski, 2008 - "Effects of Turbulence on the Geometric Collision Rate of Sedimenting Droplets: Part 1. Results from direct numerical simulation." New J. Physics (Focus issue on cloud physics), 10, 075015.   
  9. O. Ayala, B. Rosa, L.P. Wang, 2008 - "Effects of Turbulence on the Geometric Collision Rate of Sedimenting Droplets: Part 2. Theory and Parameterization". New J. Physics (Focus issue on cloud physics), 10, 075016.   
  10. H. Gao, J. Han, Y. Jin, and L.P. Wang 2008 - "Modeling microscale flow and colloid transport in saturated porous media", Int. J. Comp. Fluid Dyn., 22(7): 493-505.   
  11. L.P. Wang and M.H. Du 2008 - "Direct simulation of viscous flow in a wavy pipe using the lattice Boltzmann approach." Int. J. Engineering Systems Modelling and Simulation, Vol. 1 (1), pp.20-29.   
  12. Y. Yang, G.W. He, and L.P. Wang, 2008 - "Effects of subgrid-scale modeling on Lagrangian statistics in large-eddy simulation". Journal of Turbulence, Vol. 9(8), 1-24, DOI: 10.1080/14685240801905360.
  13. L.P. Wang, Y. Xue, and W.W. Grabowski, 2007 "A bin integral method for solving the kinetic collection equation." Journal of Computational Physics, Vol. 226, 59-88.
  14. O. Ayala, L.P. Wang and W.W. Grabowski, 2007 "A hybrid approach for simulating turbulent collisions of hydrodynamically-interacting particles." Journal of Computational Physics, Vol. 225, 51-73.
  15. L.P. Wang, O. Ayala, and W.W. Grabowski, 2007, "Effects of aerodynamic interactions on the motion of heavy particles in a bibisperse suspenson." Journal of Turbulence, Vol. 8.1., 1-28. DOI: 10.1080/14685240701233426.
  16. L.P. Wang, Y. Xue, O. Ayala, and W.W. Grabowski, 2006, "Effects of stochastic coalescence and air turbulence on the size distribution of cloud droplets." Atmospheric Research, Vol. 82: pp. 416-432. doi:10.1016/j.atmosres.2005.12.011.
  17. L.P. Wang and B. Afsharpoya, 2006, "Modeling fluid flow in fuel cells using the lattice Boltzmann approach". Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, Vol. 72, pp. 242-248.
  18. L.P. Wang, O. Ayala, Y. Xue, and W.W. Grabowski, 2006. Comments on "Droplets to drops by turbulent coagulation". Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, Vol. 63 (9), pp. 2397-2401.
  19. L.P. Wang, C.N. Franklin, O. Ayala, and W.W. Grabowski, 2006 "On probability distribution of angle-of-approach and relative velocity for colliding droplets in a turbulent flow", J. of the Atmospheric Sciences, Vol. 63 (3), pp. 881-900.
  20. L.P. Wang, O. Ayala, and Y. Xue, 2005 "Reconciling the cylindrical formulation with the spherical formulation in the kinematic descriptions of collision kernel", Physics of Fluids, Vol. 17, No. 6, Art. No. 067103.
  21. L.P. Wang, O. Ayala, and W.W. Grabowski, 2005 "Improved formulations of the superposition method’’, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, Vol. 62, No. 4, pages 1255-1266.
  22. L.P. Wang, O. Ayala, S.E. Kasprzak, and W.W. Grabowski, 2005 ``Theoretical formulation of collision rate and collision efficiency of hydrodynamically-interacting cloud droplets in turbulent atmosphere’’, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, Vol. 62, No. 7, Part 2, pages 2433-2450.
  23. G. He, R. Rubinstein, and L.P. Wang, 2002, "Effects of Eddy Viscosity on Time Correlations in Large Eddy Simulation." Phys. Fluids, Vol 14, Number 7, pp2186 – 2193
  24. L.-S. Luo, D. Qi, and L.P. Wang, 2002 “Applications of the lattice Boltzmann method to complex and turbulent flows.” in Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering, (edited by M. Breuer, F. Durst, and C. Zenger), Vol 21, pp. 123-130.
  25. Dmitruk P., Wang L.P., Matthaeus W.H., Zhang R., and Seckel D., ``Scalable Parallel FFT for Spectral Simulations on a Beowulf Cluster.'' Parallel Computing, Vol. 27, pp.1921-1936, 2001.
  26. DeSpirito J. and Wang L.P.,``Linear Instability of Two-Way Coupled Particle-Laden Jet.'' International Journal of Multiphase Flow,Vol. 27, pp.1179-1198, 2001.
  27. Zhou Y., Wexler A.S., and Wang L.P., 2001 ``Modeling turbulent collision of bidisperse inertial particles.'' Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 433, pp.77-104, 2001
  28. Ulitsky M., Ghenai C., Gokalp I., Wang L.P. and Collins L., "A Comparison of a Spectral EDQNM Model for Premixed Turbulent Flame Propagation to DNS and Experiments.'' Combustion Theory and Modelling, Vol. 4 No. 3: pp.241-264, 2000.
  29. Wang L.P., Wexler A.S., and Zhou Y., ``Statistical Mechanical Descriptions of Turbulent Coagulation of Inertial Particles.'' Journal of Fluid Mechanics,Vol. 415, pp.117-153, 2000.

SOCIETIES
American Physical Society/Division of Fluid Dynamics
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Society of Engineering Science
American Meteorological Society

HONORS & AWARDS
Distinguished Oversea Scholar Award from China (2006)
NCAR Faculty Fellowship (2005)
Honored Member, Strathmore's Who's Who (2001)
Francis Alison Scholars Award (1998)
Outstanding Teaching Award (1996)
Marquis Who's Who in the East (1996)
Marquis Who's Who in the World (1994)
Marquis Who's Who in Science and Engineering (1992)

COURSES TAUGHT
MEEG481/681 Computer Solution of Engineering Problems
MEEG307 Thermodynamics I
MEEG344 Thermodynamics
MEEG342 Heat Transfer
MEEG630 Intermediate Fluid Mechanics
MEEG637 Two-Phase Flow and Particle Technology
MEEG832 Fluid Dynamics II
MEEG867 Lattice Boltzmann Approach for Complex Flows

OTHER INFORMATION
Chair, Department Computer Committee