Biography

Dr. Chunlei Charles Liang received his Ph.D. degree from the University of London in 2005. He is a developer of multiple numerical solvers for both compressible and incompressible viscous flows. His research was recognized by an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program award in 2014, a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation in 2016, and a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) from the White House in 2019. Dr. Liang's students have won best paper/best presentation awards in multiple national and international conferences. In his spare time, Dr. Liang plays table tennis, chess, basketball, and badminton.

Memberships:

ASME Fellow

AIAA Associate Fellow

Former PhD Students:

  • Dr. James Chen (PhD thesis 2011),   Associate Professor of University of Buffalo, NY
  • Dr. Andrew DeJong (PhD thesis 2013), Computational Engineer of Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division (NSWCCD)
  • Dr. Junfeng Wang (PhD thesis 2016), Computational Engineer of Simerics Inc, Seattle WA.
  • Dr. Jingjing Yang (PhD thesis 2018),  R&D Software Engineering Manager of Dassault Systèmes, Boston MA.
  • Dr. Christopher Cox (PhD thesis 2018), Staff Scientist of Lawrence Livermore National Lab
  • Dr. Bin Zhang (PhD thesis 2016), Visiting Assistant Professor, Clarkson University
  • Dr. Liangwei Li (PhD thesis 2019), Software Engineer, Facebook
  • Dr. Xiaoliang Zhang (PhD thesis 2019), Principal Software Engineer, Cadence Design Systems, Dallas TX
  • Dr. Kuangxu Chen (Ph.D. thesis 2023), Assistant Professor, Shenzhen

Former Master's Students:

  • Shantanu Bailoor, MS thesis 2016, PhD student, Johns Hopkins University
  • Yunze Li, MS thesis 2019, Associate Professor, Tianjin University of Science and Technology
  • Mao Li, MS thesis 2019, Software Development Engineer II at Amazon Advertising
  • Kuangxu Chen, MS thesis 2020
  • Chi Ding, MS thesis 2021
  • Drew Safford, MS thesis 2023
  • Stephen Monroe, MS thesis 2024, NSWC Carderock Division

Former Undergraduate Students:

  • Todd Dillon, Lead Systems Engineer at Lockheed Martin RMS,  Undergraduate Research Assistant, 2013.
  • Roland Yu, Account Technical Specialist at NetApp, Undergraduate Research Assistant, 2018. 

Experience

Associate Professor w/tenure George Washington University, 2016-2019
Assistant Professor George Washington University, 2010-2016
Postdoctoral Research Fellow Stanford University, 2007-2010

Research Interests

Computational Fluid Dynamics,  Marine Propulsion, Magnetohydrodynamics, Fluid-Structure Interaction, Heat Transfer.
Group Members:  Russell Hankey (MS), Maxwell Stephan (MS), Ibrahim Fetuga (PhD),  Seyi Oluwadare (MS), Aidan Paoli (UG Research), Peter Parrish (UG Research), Aurabinda Swain (Postdoc)

Awards

  • 2001-2004: Overseas Research Student Award Universities UK
  • 2012: Outstanding fluid-structure-interaction technical paper award at the ASME Pressure Vessel and Piping Conference, Toronto
  • 2014: Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program Award
  • 2016: National Science Foundation CAREER Award
  • 2019: Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)
  • 2023-2024: AIAA Abe Zarem Educator Award in Aeronautics
  • 2023-2024: Clarkson University Million Dollar Club
     

Publications

 

  • Stephen Monroe, Junfeng Wang, and Chunlei Liang, Performance Studies of an Axial Flow Waterjet Pump Using an Unsteady Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes Model, Accepted to the Northeast Journal of Complex Systems, Fall 2024.
  • R. J. Hankey, K. Chen, and C. Liang, Extending the Spectral Difference Method with Divergence Cleaning (SDDC) to the Hall MHD Equations, Northeast Journal of Complex Systems (NEJCS), 2023, 5(1), Article 1.
  • K. Chen, C. Liang and M. Wan, Arbitrarily high-order accurate simulations of compressible rotationally constrained convection using a transfinite mapping on cubed-sphere grids, Physics of Fluids, Vol 35, 086120, 2023.
  • D. Safford, J. Wang, C. Liang, K. Visser, Unsteady Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes Simulations Of A Ducted Wind Turbine , ASME Journal of Fluids Engineering, published online, October 2023.  doi: https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4063615
  • Q. Xie, X. Ji, Z. Qiu, C. Liang, K. Xu, High-Order Spectral Difference Gas-Kinetic Schemes for Euler and Navier-Stokes equations, East Asian J. Appl. Math., 13 (2023), pp. 499-523.
  • Chi Ding, Bin Zhang, Chunlei Liang, Kenneth D Visser, Guangming Yao, High-Order Large-Eddy Simulations of a Wind Turbine in Ducted and Open-Rotor Configurations,  ASME Journal of Fluids Engineering, published online,  October 2022, https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4055989.
  • K. Chen and C. Liang, An arbitrarily high-order Spectral Difference method with Divergence Cleaning (SDDC) for compressible magnetohydrodynamic simulations on unstructured grids, The Astrophysical Journal, published online, June 2022. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac6e61
  • K. Chen and C. Liang, A divergence-free high-order Spectral Difference method with Constrained Transport (SDCT) for ideal compressible magnetohydrodynamics. In Press, Int. Journal of Computational Fluid Dynamics, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1080/10618562.2022.2042272
  • B. Zhang and C. Liang, A Conservative High-Order Method Utilizing Dynamic Transfinite Mortar Elements for Flow Simulations on Curved Nonconforming Sliding Meshes, Journal of Computational Physics, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2021.110522
  • B. Zhang, C. Ding, C. Liang, High-order implicit large-eddy simulation of flow over a marine propeller, Computers & Fluids, 2021, Vol 224, 104967.
  • X. Zhang and C. Liang, An open boundary condition for high-order solutions of magnetohydrodynamics on unstructured grids, Int. Journal of Computational Fluid Dynamics, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1080/10618562.2020.1791835
  • Zihua Qiu, Bin Zhang, Chunlei Liang, Min Xu, A high-order solver for simulating vortex-induced vibrations using sliding-mesh spectral difference method and hybrid grids, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, Vol 90, 171-194, 2019.
  • Mao Li, Zihua Qiu, Chunlei Liang, Michael A Sprague, Charles Garris, A New High-order Spectral Difference Method for Simulating Viscous Flows on Unstructured Grids with Mixed-Elements, Computers & Fluids, Vol 184, 187-198, 2019.
  • Jingjing Yang, Chunlei Liang, A high-order flux reconstruction adaptive mesh refinement method for magnetohydrodynamics on unstructured grids. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, Volume 86, 231-253, 2018.
  • C. Cox, C. Liang, and M. Plesniak, A high-order solver for unsteady incompressible Navier-Stokes equations using the flux reconstruction method on unstructured grids with implicit dual time stepping. Journal of Computational Physics, Vol 314, 414-435, 2016.
  • Chunlei Liang, Krzysztof Fidkowski, Per-Olof Persson, Peter Vincent, Gustaaf Jacobs, Celebrating the 60th birthday of Professor David A. Kopriva,  Computers & Fluids, Vol 139, 1, 2016, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compfluid.2016.10.002
  • J. Wang, M. S. Miesch, and C. Liang, Convection in Oblate Solar-Type Stars. Astrophysical Journal, Vol 830, 2016.  http://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/830/1/4
  • B. Zhang and C. Liang, A Simple, Efficient, High-order Accurate Sliding-Mesh Interface Approach to the Spectral Difference Method on Coupled Rotating and Stationary Domains. Journal of Computational Physics, Vol 295, 147-16, 2015.
  • J. Wang, C. Liang and M. S. Miesch, A Compressible High-Order Unstructured Spectral Difference Code for Stratified Convection in Rotating Spherical Shells, Journal of Computational Physics, Vol 290, pp 90-111, 2015.
  • Chunlei Liang, Krzysztof Fidkowski, Per-Olof Persson, Peter Vincent, Celebrating the 80th Birthday of Professor Antony Jameson, Vol 98, 1-2, 2014, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compfluid.2014.05.011
  • Andrew DeJong and Chunlei Liang, Parallel spectral difference method for predicting 3D vortex-induced vibrations, Computers, and Fluids, Volume 98,  2014, Pages 17-26.
  • James Chen, James D.Lee, and Chunlei Liang, Constitutive equations of Micropolar electromagnetic fluids, Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, 166:867-874, 2011.
  • J. Chen, C. Liang, and J. D. Lee,  Numerical simulation for unsteady compressible Micropolar fluid flow, Computers and Fluids, vol 66, pp. 1-9, 2012.
  • Efstathios Konstantinidis and Chunlei Liang, Dynamic response of a turbulent cylinder wake to sinusoidal inflow perturbations across the vortex lock-on range, Physics of Fluids, Vol 23, 075102, 2011, https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3592330
  • A. Chan, P. Dewey, Antony Jameson, C. Liang, and A. Smits, Vortex suppression and drag reduction in the wake of counter-rotating cylinders, Journal of Fluid Mechanics,  679: 343-382, 2011.
  • C. Liang, A. Chan, A. Jameson, A p-multigrid spectral difference method for two-dimensional unsteady incompressible Navier–Stokes equations, Computers & Fluids, Volume 51, pages 127-135, 2011.
  • C.  Liang, K.   Ou, S.  Premasuthan, A.   Jameson and Z. J. Wang. High-order accurate simulations of unsteady flow past plunging and pitching airfoils. Computers and Fluids, Vol 40, pages 236-248, Issue 1, 2011.
  • J. Chen, C. Liang and J. D. Lee, Theory and Simulation of Micropolar Fluid Dynamics, Journal of Nanoengineering and Nanosystems, 224, 31-40, 2011.
  • C.  Liang, A.  Jameson and Z. J.  Wang. Spectral Difference method for two-dimensional compressible flow on unstructured grids with mixed elements. Journal of Computational Physics, vol 228, pp 2847-2858, 2009.
  • C. Liang, G. Papadakis, X. Luo, Effect of tube spacing on the vortex shedding characteristics of laminar flow past an inline tube array: a numerical study, Computers & Fluids, Vol 38, 950-964, 2009.
  • C.  Liang, R.  Kannan, and Z. J.  Wang. A p-Multigrid Spectral Difference Method with explicit and implicit smoothers on unstructured triangular grids. Computers and Fluids, 38:254-265, 2009.
  • C.  Liang and G.  Papadakis. Large Eddy Simulation of Flow over a Staggered Tube Bundle. Journal of Fluids and Structures, 23:1215-1230, 2007.
  • T Stoesser, C Liang, W Rodi, G Jirka, “Large Eddy Simulation of Fully-developed Turbulent Flow Through Submerged Vegetation”, River Flow 2006, pp. 227-234.

Journal Editorships

  1. Associate Editor of the ASME Journal of Fluids Engineering.
  2. Editorial Board Member of Computers & Fluids Journal.
  3. Editorial Board Member of Progress in Aerospace Sciences

Contact

Email: cliang@clarkson.edu

Office Phone Number: 315/268-6575

Office Location: 262 CAMP Building

Clarkson Box Number: CU Box 5725

Website: https://sites.clarkson.edu/chorus-mhd/