Cheng-Xian Lin

Cheng-Xian Lin is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA. He was the 2007 Air Force Summer Faculty Fellow, at the Air Force Research Laboratory, WPAFB. Before he joined UT, he was the Program Manager of Modeling, Simulation, and Visualization in the Applied Research Center at Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA. He also held a joint appointment with FIU’s Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering as a Research Associate Professor. He was the recipient of the Program Development Award at FIU in 2000, Employee Service Awards at FIU, in 2000 and 2006, and the Excellent Academic Paper Award for Young Scientists at Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1993. He received the Certificate of Recognition from Florida Georgia Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (FGLSAMP) in 1999. Dr. Lin earned his Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering in 1992. Since then, he has authored and coauthored over 125 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings. His current research interests include computational fluid dynamics fundamentals and applications, turbulence modeling, reactive flows, multiphase flows and heat transfer, combustion, and micro-/nanoscale transport phenomena. His projects were funded by government agencies as well as commercial companies. Dr. Lin serves on the technical committees for the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), and is an active member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and American Nuclear Society (ANS). He served as a panelist and reviewer for National Science Foundation, International Copper Association, and various international journals and conferences.

Biography Updated on 11 March 2008