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Co-Director, Computational Fluid Dynamics Research
                      Laboratory

Life Fellow of ASME
Fellow of Graduate School, UC

Ph.D., Illinois Institute of Technology, 1969

Phone:(513) 556-3243
FAX  :(513) 556-5038
e-mail: kghia@cfdrl.uc.edu

Research Interests 

• Flow Separation, Unsteady Flows, Chaos, Transition, Turbulence, Flow Control
• Multidimensional External & Internal Flows
• Numerical Simulation of Fluid Flows with Empahsis on :
• Conformal and Adaptive Grid Generation Techniques
• Developement of Efficient Algorithms
• Use of Higher-Order Techniques, Spectral Methods, LES and DNS Techniques
• Application of Fast Direct Solvers to Flow Equation
• Computational Aeroacoustics 

Recent Publications

Duncan, B. D.  and Ghia, K. N. (1999), "Direct Numerical
  Simulation of Transitions Toward Turbulence in Complex 
  Channel Flows", to appear in Direct Numerical Simulation 
  and Large Eddy Simulation of Transition and Turbulence,
  Editor : D. Knight, Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Ghia, K.N. (1999) , “Physics of Forced Unsteady 
  Separated Flows,” accepted for publication in Journal of 
  Fluids Engineering.

Papp, J.L. and Ghia,K.N., (1998), “Simulation of Turbulent
  Compressible Mixing Layers Examining Compressiblity 
  Correction and RNG Based Methods for Two-Equation 
  Turbulence Models,” AIAA Paper 98-0320, January; 
  Submitted for publication to AIAA Journal.

Duncan, D.B. and Ghia, K.N.,(1997), “An Iterative 
  Approach for Solving the Incompressible Navier-Stokes 
  Equations for Simulation of Transition and Turbulence in 
  Complex Geometries,” Advances in DNS/LES, Editors: 
  C.Liu, S.Liu adn L.Sakell, Greyden Press, Columbus, 
  Ohio.

Tian, B. and Ghia, K.N., (1997),  “Aeroelasticity Analysis of 
  Aircraft Wings in Flutter-Onset or Post-Flutter Regime,” 
  Lecture Notes in Physics, Editor: P.Kutler, Springer-Verlag,
  Vol. 490, NY, pp 304-309.

Ghia, U. and Ghia, K. N., (1997),  “Navier-Stokes Equations 
  for Incompressible Fluid Flow”, Chapter in Handbook of 
  Fluid Dynamics and Fluid Machinery, Editor: J. Schetz, 
  McGraw Hill, pp 1498-1506.

Osswald, G.A., Ghia, K.N. and Ghia, U. (1996), “Unsteady
  Three-Dimensional Navier-Stokes Simulation of Dynamics 
  Stall with Emphasis on Boundary Conditions,” Dynamics 
  Motion CFD, Editors: L.Sakell and D.D. Knight, Rutgers 
  University Press, New Brunswick, NJ, pp. 299-306.

Noll, C. and Ghia.,K.N.,(1996), “A Generalized 
  Time-Dependent Analysis Implemented on a Parallel 
  Computer for Studying Compressiblity Effects on Dynamic 
  Stall,” Dynamics Motion CFD, Editors, L.Sakell and D.D.
  Knight, Rutgers University Press, New Bremswick. N.J. 
  pp. 307.

Muralirajan, K. S., Ghia, K. N, Ghia, U. and 
  Brandes-Duncan, B., (1995),  “Analysis of E-D Unsteady 
  Separated Turbulent Flow Using a Vorticity-Based 
  Approach and Large-Eddy Simulation,” Lecture Notes in 
  Physics, Editor: S. Deshpande, Vol. 453, pp 337-342, June.

Other Recent Professional Activities

Technical Program Chairman - Fluid Dynamics -  AIAA 
  40^th Aerospace Sciences Meeting, January 2001

Co-Editor - Computational Fluid Dynamics Journal, JSCFD
  Pub., 1991-1999

Technical Chairman - 6th International Symposium on 
  Computational Fluid Dynamics, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, 
  September, 1995.

Executive Member - Scientific Committee for 
  IMACS-COST Conference on CFD, Laussane, 
  Switzerland, September 1995.

Executive Member – Scientific Committee ISCFD,
  1994-present, served on 6^th  ISCFD USA, 7^th ISCFD
  China, 8^th ISCFD Germany.

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