Chunlei Liang

Biography

Dr. Chunlei Charles Liang received his Ph.D. degree from the University of London in 2005. He is developer of multiple numerical solvers for both compressible and incompressible flows on unstructured grids. Dr. Liang and his graduate student, Seyi Oluwadare, designed the Selig20 Clarkson Ducted Turbine at Clarkson University. Thanks to the support of NSF and AFOSR, Dr. Liang led a successful development of CHORUS-MHD for simulating density-stratified magnetohydrodynamics in the solar convection zone on GPUs at Clarkson University.

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
Russell Hankey, MS thesis 2025
Seyi Oluwadare, MS thesis 2025

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

Kuangxu Chen and Chunlei Liang, *High-order Hybrid Essentially Non-Oscillatory Spectral Difference Method for Hyperbolic Conservation Laws on Unstructured Curved Quadrilateral Grids, * *Physics of Fluids*, in press, May 2025.

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.

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