Wei Shyy Chair, Clarence L. "Kelly" Johnson Collegiate Professor ADDRESS: 3000 FXB PHONE: (734) 936-0102 FAX:(secure) (734) 936-0106 EMAIL: weishyy@umich.edu Websites: Computational Thermo-Fluids Group

Wei Shyy is currently Clarence L. “Kelly” Johnson Collegiate Professor and Chairman of the Department of Aerospace Engineering at The University of Michigan (UM). From 1988 to 2004, he was on the faculty of the University of Florida (UF), holding the rank of Associate Professor, Professor, and Distinguished Professor. He also served as department chair in UF between 1996 and 2004. From 1983 to 1988, he was a staff scientist at GE Corporate Research and Development Center in Schenectady , New York . He received a BS degree in 1977 from National Tsing-Hua University in Taiwan . He went to The University of Michigan in 1979, and received M.S.E. and Ph.D. degrees, both in Aerospace Engineering, in 1981 and 1982, respectively. He is the author or a co-author of four books and numerous journal and conference articles dealing with computational and modeling techniques involving fluid flow, interfacial dynamics, multiphase and moving boundary problems, biological and low Reynolds number flight vehicles and aerodynamics, combustion and propulsion, fluid machinery, design optimization, materials processing, and biofluid dynamics.

He is General Editor of the Cambridge Aerospace Book Series published by the Cambridge University Press, Co-Editor-in Chief of Encyclopedia of Aerospace Engineering, a major reference work under development by Wiley-Blackwell. He also serves as Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Acta Mechanica Sinica, Associate Editor of the ASME Applied Mechanics Reviews, as well as on the editorial boards of Progress in Aerospace Sciences,Numerical Heat Transfer (Part A: Applications, and Part B: Fundamentals), Progress in Computational Fluid Dynamics, Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences,International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids , Chinese Journal of Aeronautics (published in P.R. China), and Transactions of the Aeronautical and Astronautical Society of the Republic of China (Taiwan). He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). He has also received several awards for his research and professional contributions, including the AIAA 2003 Pendray Aerospace Literature Award, and the ASME 2005 Heat Transfer Memorial Award.

In 2002, Shyy successfully led a group to establish the Institute for Future Space Transport, a seven-university consortium funded by NASA, under the University Research, Engineering and Technology Institutes program (now called the Constellation University Institutes Program, CUIP). The Institute received a 5-year, 15-million dollars support during the first phase. Since 2006, he is the principal investigator of the Michigan/AFRL/Boeing Collaborative Center in Aeronautical Sciences ( MAB-CCAS), a five-year endeavor sponsored by the Air Force Research Laboratory. Since 2007, he is the principal investigator of a Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) project, sponsored by DoD, on Biologically-Inspired, Anisotropic Flexible Wing for Optimal Flapping Flight.

His professional views have been quoted in a number of news media, including the New York Times, the Associated Press, the USA Today, the Christian Science Monitor, the Miami Herald, the St. Petersburg Times, and the Orlando Sentinel.

Specializations & Research Interests
Computational fluid dynamics, combustion and propulsion, turbomachinery flows and heat transfer, aerospace materials processing, fluid-structure interaction, biofluid dynamics, biological and low Reynolds number flight vehicles, optimization of thermofluids systems.

Education
Ph.D. University of Michigan
M.S.E. University of Michigan
B.S. Power Mechanical Engineering, National Tsing- Hua University, Taiwan.

Society Memberships
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, (AIAA, Fellow)
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME, Fellow)
American Physical Society

Teaching Interests
Directed Study (Aero 490)
Directed Study (Aero 590)
Aerospace Seminars (Aero 585)

Positions Held at Michigan
Chairman of Aerospace Engineering, 2005-Present

Honors and Awards
General Electric Reserach and Development Center: Publications Award (1986)
Chinese Society of Mechanical Engineers (Taiwan): Research Paper Award (1987)
AIAA: Service Citation (1993)
NASA Kennedy Space Center: Certificate of Appreciation (1999) & Productivity Award (1999)
AIAA 2003 Pendray Aerospace Literature Award
ASME 2005 Heat Transfer Memorial Award

Links
Curriculum Vitae [PDF]

Patent
Shyy, W., Francois, M. and Chung, J. N., 2003, U.S. Patent No. 6,598,409: Thermal Management Device.