Bio

Chang-Kwon Kang, Graduate Student Research Assistant, PhD Candidate
ADDRESS: 2012 FXB Bldg, 1320 Beal Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI 48105; PHONE: (734) 717 0070; E-MAIL: kangck@umich.edu

Chang-kwon's pictureTaejongdae, Pusan, Korea (2006)

Chang-kwon is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He has joined the Computational Thermo-Fluids group in 2007 under supervision of Dr. Shyy. Before coming to the United States he received his M.Sc. and B.Sc. degrees at the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.

Education

  • -present, Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan
  • 2005, M.Sc., Aerodynamics, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Delft University of Technology
  • 2002, B.Sc., Department of Aerospace Engineering, Delft University of Technology, cum laude

Research Experience

  • 2004-2005, Topological analysis of fourth order juncture flow:
    Master’s research, Delft University of Technology, supervisor: prof. dr. ir. P.G. Bakker
  • 2001, Experiments on laminar-turbulent boundary layer transition control in supersonic wind tunnel:
    Internship, Arizona State University, supervisor: dr. Saric

Research Interests

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Mathematical modeling
  • Flapping Wing Aerodynamics
  • Laminar-to-Turbulent Flow
  • Bifurcation theory

Society Memberships

  • The Royal Institution of Engineers in the Netherlands
  • AIAA Student member

Resume

Publications
Journals
  1. Ol, M., Bernal, L., Kang, C., and Shyy, W., "Shallow and deep dynamic stall for flapping low Reynolds number airfoils ?", Experiments in Fluids, Vol. 46, Nr. 5, (2009), pp. 883-901.
  2. Shyy, W., Trizila, P., Kang, C., Aono, H., "Can Tip Vortices Enhance Lift of a Flapping Wing?", AIAA Journal, Vol. 47, (2009), pp. 289-293.

Conferences
  1. Kang, C., Baik, Y., Bernal, L., Ol, M.V., and Shyy, W., "Fluid Dynamics of Pitching and Plunging Airfoils of Reynolds Number between 1x10^4 and 6x10^4", AIAA-2009-536, 47th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting including the New Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition, Orlando, Florida, Jan. 5-8, 2009.
  2. Kang, C., Aono, H., Trizila, P, Baik, Y., Rausch, J.M., Bernal, L., Ol, M.V., and Shyy, W., "Modeling of Pitching and Plunging Airfoils of Reynolds Number between 1x10^4 and 6x10^4", AIAA-2009-4100, 27th AIAA Applied Aerodynamics Conference, San Antonio, Texas, June 22-25, 2009.
  3. Trizila, P., Kang, C., Visbal, M., and Shyy, W., "Unsteady Fluid Physics and Surrogate Modeling of Low Reynolds Number, Flapping Airfoils", AIAA-2008-3821, 38th Fluid Dynamics Conference and Exhibit, Seattle, Washington, June 2008.
  4. Trizila, P., Kang, C., Visbal, M., and Shyy, W., "A Surrogate Model Approach in 2-D Versus 3-D Flapping Wing Aerodynamic Analysis", AIAA-2008-5914, 12th AIAA/ISSMO Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization Conference, Victoria, British Columbia, September, 2008.