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Department
of Mechanical and Environmental Engineering Office: Room 2337 Engineering
II Building Ph.D. Univ. of California, Berkeley, 1977 Thermal/Fluid Sciences: radiation heat transfer, fire and combustion, melting/solidification heat transfer, two phase flow |
| Professor Yuen's research interest is in the area of radiation heat transfer, combustion and two-phase flow. He has received three research grants from NSF and published over fifty journal articles in the area of radiation heat transfer. He is the originator of the generalized zonal method (GZM) and scattering mean beam length, which are essential for the development of efficient computational scheme for radiation heat transfer. He was an invited participant in a 1996 workshop on "High Performance Computing in Radiation Heat Transfer" sponsored by NSF. Professor Yuen also received funding from NASA to study the fundamentals of metal combustion in relation to oxygen safety and published actively in the area. Since 1990, Professor Yuen expanded his scope of research to Reactor Safety and the fundamentals of multi-phase flow. He is the principal researcher responsible for the development of the two computer codes, PM-ALPHA and ESPROSE.m which are the most advanced state-of-the-art numerical tools for analysis of Steam Explosion. He is a co-PI on a number of research grants from DOE and NRC and co-author on over 30 archival and conference publications in these areas. |
Last Update: March 23, 2001 - C. Gregory