New Departmental Postdocs & Other Academicians

Hyung Choi is a Postdoctoral Associate working with the research team for Dr. Joseph's project on the lubricated pipelining of bitumen froth. He completed his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Seoul National University in Seoul, Korea. His experience and research activities include water lubricated pipelines and two-phase flow fluid mechanics theories, as well as experience with FVM and with Non-Newtonian fluid flow analysis, relating mainly to the injection molding using VOF.

Peter (Yijian) Huang is a Postdoctoral Associate under Professor Joseph. He has a strong background in computational, theoretical and experimental research in fluid mechanics, solid mechanics, multiphase flows, viscoelastic fluid dynamics, along with other research interests. Since 1991, Dr. Huang had worked with Professor Joseph as a teaching and research assistant. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanics from the University of Minnesota in January, 1997.

David Kolman received a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Minnesota in February, 1997. He is a Postdoctoral Associate, as part of a research group working with Professor Candler on his project using computational fluid dynamics methods, modeling and analysis of plasma flows and high-temperature gas dynamics, chemical kinetics modeling and high-performance computing.

Ying Nan received his Ph.D. in Flight Dynamics and Control from Northwestern Polytechnical University in the People's Republic of China. Professor Zhao chose him as a Postdoctoral Associate to participate in his research project on trajectory optimization methods. Dr. Nan had completed research projects in optimal design of resistance-distribution trajectory and fault-tolerant navigation theory of space shuttle in atmosphere; the optimization of two stage reusable space transportation systems with airbreathing propulsion; the optimal trajectories and control of manned vehicle based on the parallel algorithm; as well as other similarily related research projects.

Joseph Olejniczak, a 1997 Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering, is a Postdoctoral Associate working with Professor Candler on his research project with upwind-finite-volume methods and programming for parallel computers; CM-FORTRAN and/or Message Passing Interface programming; and, high- temperature gas dynamics. Dr. Olejniczak has done graduate research on chemically reacting high-speed flows, doing both experimental and computational work. He has worked in programming upwind finite-volume methods on both vector and parallel computers, programming in CM-FORTRAN and has studied Message Passing Interface programming.

Neelesh Patankar received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, from the University of Pennsylvania in July of 1997. He is a Postdoctoral Associate for Professor Joseph as part of his research team on a project on the lubricated pipelining of bitumen froth. Dr. Patankar has a strong background in fluid mechanics, heat transfer and solid mechanics. He has extensive experience with numerically solving the convection-diffusion equations encountered in fluid mechanics and heat transfer using the Control Volume method.

Michael Wright received his Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Minnesota in June, 1997. He joined Professor Candler's research team as a Postdoctoral Associate on a research project dealing with the development of computational fluid dynamics methods for the simulation of planetary entry flows. Dr. Wright's graduate research topic was the development of a family of parallel finite volume methods for the solution of the Navier-Stokes equations. He has also developed implicit finite volume methods for both perfect gas and high-temperature reacting flows, and has experience programming in CM-FORTRAN on the CM-5, and with message-passing using MPI.

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