Dr. Lian-Ping Wang

Dr. Lian-Ping Wang received a Batchelor’s degree in Mechanics from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China in 1984, and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Washington State University, USA in 1990. He was then a Visiting Research Associate at Brown University from 1990 to 1992, after which he was a Research Associate at Pennsylvania State University from 1992 to 1994 and an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Delaware from 1994 to 2001. He became an Associate Professor in 2001 and a Professor in 2010 at the University of Delaware. In 2017, he was appointed a Chaired Professor at Southern University of Science and Technology, China. Dr. Wang’s areas of expertise include turbulent multiphase flows, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) in particular mesoscopic CFD methods, and modeling of complex flows. He has published around 142 refereed journal papers and has given over 100 invited talks.  Dr. Wang became an elected Fellow of American Physical Society in 2011 and an elected Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2016, and an Invitation Fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (9/2016 – 3/2017).