PROFILE:

MS in Aerospace Engineering with around 8 years research/teaching experience in both Computational and Experimental Fluid dynamics

Skilled in CFD/ CAD software: FLUENT, T-Grid, COMSOL, SolidWorks, PRO-E,LABVIEW; skills in GAMBIT CGNS/ICEM mesh generation, multi-zone grid combination, simulation on moving mesh and non-conformal mesh.

Worked extensively on the modeling and simulation of multiphase flow; developed an in-house CFD code for the compressible two phase flow.

Accomplished project on 2/3D modeling & Numerical simulation of Vertical Axis Wind Turbine using commercial software SolidWorks and FLUENT; Flow field analysis, performance evaluation and optimization.

Experienced C/ FORTRAN/ Python/ MATLAB programmer, working with these languages on a daily basis; have written several Riemann solvers (upwind, WAF and HLLC) base on the numerical package CLAWPACK.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Generic and functional programming

Parallel computing, OpenMP

COMSOL,SOLIDWORK,LABVIEW,PRO-E

Office, windows/Linux

Knowledge of other CAD/commercial CFD software, fast learner

EDUCATION:

MS in Department of Aerospace Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, Aug 2011.

MS in Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 2006.

BS in Engineering Mechanics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 2003.

EXPERIENCE:

Department of Aerospace Engineering Iowa State University 2006-2011

Research Assistant

2/3D modeling and Numerical simulation of Vertical Axis Wind Turbine using commercial software SOLIDWORK and FLUENT. Flow field analysis, performance evaluation and optimization.

Theoretical investigation on the inception of cavitation. Evaluation and prediction the source of water hammer damage on hydraulic system and propeller. Develop numerical model for compressible multiphase flow.

Experimental investigation of heat transfer procedure inside a Sessile Droplet. Applying Molecular Tagging Technology as a new method for the aircraft icing research.

Selected results published as journal paper.

Department of Aerospace Engineering, Iowa State University 2009-2011

Teaching Experience

Lab Instructor, EM327, Mechanics of Materials Laboratory, Responsible for all aspects of the class including experiments set up, lectures, and assignment grading.

Teach Assistant, AERE 261, Introduction to Performance and Design, Helping engineering students on fundamental programming in C/FORTRAN. Teaching basic engineering lab operations. Building up a data acquisition system for a low speed wind tunnel and calibration. Advising and evaluating students' final Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) wing design project.

Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Science 2003-2006

Research Assistant

Design and manufacture high response aerodynamics force balance which can obtain aerodynamics lift, drag/moment in microsecond time scale.

Application of none-intrusive measurement technology on high temperature flow field measurement. Including Planar Laser Induce Fluorescence (PLIF) and Ultraviolet (UV) absorbed spectroscopy.

Selected results published as journal paper.

Department of Engineering Mechanics, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) 2002-2003

Research Assistant

Data acquisition software writing for a fuel injection test platform

PUBLICATIONS:

H. Hu, and D. Huang, Simultaneous Measurements of Droplet Size and Transient Temperature within Surface Water Droplets, AIAA Journal, Vol. 47, N0. 4, 2009.

D. Huang and H. Hu, Molecular Tagging Thermometry for the Transient Temperature Mapping within a Water Droplet, Optics Letters, Vol.32. No.24, pp3534-3536, 2007.

Lin Zhenbin, Huang De, Hang Jian, Lin Jianmin, Guo Dahua, Zeng Ming and Ge Xuezhen, "Experimental research on infrared radiation in hypersonic flow around blunt body", Chinese journal of theoretical and applied mechanics,2006,38(4):446-451(In Chinese)

AWARDS & AFFILIATIONS:

American Physics Society (APS)

President of graduate student organization, Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Science

Co-founder and the second term vice president of Flying model association, University of Science and Technology of China.

Outstanding student scholarship, Institute of Mechanics, Academy of Science

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