Lea-Der Chen

Research Links:
http://combust1.mech-eng.uiowa.edu

Research Highlights

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 diagnostics.

Selected Publications:
Zhou, Ge, Chen, Lea-Der, and Seaba, James P., "Modeling of Shunt Current in Liquid Electrolytes Fuel Cells," ASME Paper No. FUELCELL2006-97103, 2006 (The 4th International Conference on Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology, 19-21 June 2006, Irvine CA).

Gan, Mingfei and Chen, Lea-Der, "Analytical Solution for Two-Phase Flow in PEMFC Gas Diffusion Layer," ASME Paper No. FUELCELL2006-97104, 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," U.S. Patent No., 6946113, 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 Combustion Institute; Sigma Xi; American Society of Engineering Education; APS; AAAS; American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics