Kuan Chen - Associate Professor
Phone: (801) 581-4150
Fax: (801) 585-9826
e-mail: chen@eng.utah.edu
Office: 2130MEB (50 S Central Campus Dr.)
Lab: 2235 MEB (Ph: 585-6150)
Education
Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, (Received: May, 1981), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, Dissertation title: Thermal instability of wedge flows, Advisor : Michael. M. Chen.
M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, (Received: June, 1976), National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, thesis title: Natural convection in rectangular enclosures, advisors : S. H. Yin and T. Y. Wung.
B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, (Received: June, 1974), Chung Yuan University, Chung –Li , Taiwan.
Research Interests
Thermodynamics, Heat Transfer, Fluid Dynamics, Micro System Technology
Teaching
Engineering Thermodynamics, Power Thermodynamics, Gas Dynamics, Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics, Advanced Fluid Mechanics, Viscous Flow, Computational Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer, Conduction, Convection, Thermal Radiation, Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics, Aero-Propulsion, and Aerodynamics
Publications
More than 50 refereed journal articles, conference papers, and technical reports
Research Grants
PI, Co-PI, and participant of several funded research projects on Chemical Vapor Deposition, Smart Construction Module, Bernoulli Disk, and Micro System Technology