Ching-Long Lin
Professor and Departmental Executive Officer, Mechanical Engineering
Edward M. Mielnik & Samuel R. Harding Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Professor, Applied Mathematical and Computational Sciences
Biography
Ching-Long Lin is professor and departmental executive officer of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and a professor of applied mathematical and computational sciences. He is a researcher in IIHR—Hydroscience and Engineering, the Iowa Institute for Biomedical Imaging, the Environmental Health Sciences Research Center, and the Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Institute.
Active Scientific and Professional Society Memberships:
- American Society of Mechanical Engineers, American Physical Society, and Biomedical Engineering Society, American Thoracic Society
Special Fields of Knowledge:
- Large-eddy simulation
- Turbulent flow
- High-performance computation
- Level-set method
- Lattice-Boltzmann method
- Two-phase flow
- Four-dimensional data assimilation
Research Areas:
- Multiscale simulation of gas flow and particle transport in the human lungs
- Turbulent flow in complex geometry
- Fluid-structure interaction
- Parallel computing
