Ching-Long Lin

Research Highlights

Research Links:
http://www.iihr.uiowa.edu/people/details.php?id=23
http://css.engineering.uiowa.edu/~ching/

Joined the College of Engineering: 1997

Education:
Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University,1994
M.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, 1989
B.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, National Taiwan University, 1986

Special Fields of Knowledge:
Four dimensional data assimilation; large-eddy simulation; level-set method; lattice-Boltzmann method; turbulence dynamics

Present Research Interests:
Level-set simulation of two-phase flow, free-surface turbelence, lattice-Boltzmann simulation of liquid-gas, liquid-liquid and fluid-solid interactions for microfluidics, four-dimensional assimilation of atmospheric lidar data, pulmonary flow

Selected Publications:
Kabilan, S., Lin, C.-L., and Hoffman, E. A., "Characteristics of Airflow in a CT-based Ovine Lung: A Numerical Study," Journal of Applied Physiology, in press, 2006.

Lee, T. and Lin C.-L., "A Stable Discretizations of the Lattice Boltzmann Equation for Simulation of Incompressible Two-Phase Flows at High Density Ratio," Journal of Computational Physics, Vol.206, pp. 16-47, 2005.

Yu, W., Lin, C.-L., and Patel, V.C., "Large Eddy Simulation of Turbulent Open-Channel Flows With Free-Surface Simulated by Level Set Method.," Physics of Fluids, Vol.17, pp.025108:1-12, 2005.

Chai, T., Lin, C.-L., and Newsom, R. K., "Retrieval of Microscale Flow Structures from High Resolution Doppler Lidar Data Using an Adjoint Model," Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, Vol. 61, No. 13, pp. 1500-1520, 2004.

Lin, C.-L., Chai, T., and Sun, J., "On Smoothness Constraints for Four-Dimensional Data Assimilation," Journal of Computational Physics, Vol. 181, No. 2, pp. 430-453, 2002

Active Scientific and Professional Society Memberships:
American Society of Mechanical Engineers, American Physical Society and American Society for Engineering Education