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Professor

Chun Sang Yoo, Ph.D.

 
Professor, Head | Department of Mechanical Engineering (http://me.unist.ac.kr/)
Director | Clean Combustion & Energy Research Lab.
Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST),
Ulsan 44919, Republic of Korea.
Office: EB5 (Bldg 112) Rm 701-8
Phone: +82-52-217-2322
Fax: +82-52-217-2449

Education

  • Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, 2005.
    • Direct numerical simulations of strained laminar and turbulent nonpremixed flames: Computational and physical aspects
  • M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Seoul  National  University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 1998.
    • A numerical study of the extinction characteristics of strained premixed flames of hydrogen/air/steam mixtures
  • B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Seoul  National  University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 1996.

Professional Appointments

  • Full/Associate/Assistant professor, UNIST (2009 ~ present)
  • Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, UNIST (2023 ~ present) 
  • Director of the UNIST Supercomputing Center (2020 ~ 2024)
  • Director of National Supercomputing Specialized Center (Materials & Nano) (2022 ~ 2024)
  • Chairman of the UNIST Council (2020 ~ 2022)
  • Postdoctoral research fellow,  Sandia National Laboratories  (2006 ~ 2009)
  • Instructor of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Republic of Korea Naval Academy (1998 ~ 2001)

Research Interests

  • Ammonia combustion; ammonia cracking
  • Supercritical CO2 oxy-fuel combustion
    • Combustion characteristics
    • NOx emission characteristics
    • Radiation characteristics at extremely high pressure
    • Real-fluid-based flamelet models for OpenFOAM
  • Plasma-assisted methane, ammonia, and hydrogen combustion in a model gas-turbine combustor
  • Stabilization mechanisms of laminar/turbulent lifted jet flames in heated coflow near auto-ignition limit.
  • Effects of thermal stratification and turbulence on the ignition characteristics of a lean n-heptane/air, iso-octane/air, and primary reference fuel (PRF)/air mixtures under homogeneous charge compression ignition (HCCI) and reactivity controlled compression ignition (RCCI) conditions.
  • LES/RANS of IC engine combustion
  • Neural network-based combustion simulations

Courses Taught

  • MEN522 Computational Thermo-fluid Engineering: Fall 2011, Spring 2020, 2021, 2023
  • MEN512 Advanced Combustion: Spring 2013, 2015, 2017, 2020, 2022, 2024
  • MEN500 Applied Numerical Methods: Spring 2011, 2012, 2016, 2018, Fall 2014
  • MEN411 Combustion: Fall 2017, Spring 2018
  • MEN320 Applied Fluid Mechanics: Fall 2012
  • MEN300 Numerical Analysis: Spring 2011 ~ 2107, Fall 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022 ~ 2024
  • MEN220 Fluid Mechanics: Fall 2010, 2013 ~ 2016
  • MTH201 Differential Equations: Fall 2011
  • MTH101 Calculus: Spring 2010

Invited Talks

  • “Effects of non-thermal plasma, CH4 addition, and secondary air injection on turbulent premixed CH4/air, NH3/air, and CH4/NH3/air flames in a swirl combustor”, Plenary Lecture, China National Symposium on Combustion, Hangzhou, China, Oct. 18, 2024.
  • “Introduction of the latest trends in combustion research and combustion CFD models”, TPC Seminar, LG Electronics,  Changwon, Korea, May 08, 2024.
  • “Trends and Prospects of Hydrogen/Ammonia Technology including Ammonia Cracking and Combustion”, POSCO Research Institute (POSRI), Seoul, Korea, Dec. 20, 2022.
  • “Ammonia Combustion towards Net Zero Emissions”, Korea Environment Institute, Sejong, Korea, Dec. 08, 2022.
  • “Numerical Combustion Research Using OpenFOAM from Fundamentals to Industrial Applications”, Seminar Series: OpenFOAM & Combustion Simulation, May 13, 2022.
  • “Direct numerical simulations of turbulent combustion”, Fall Symposium of the Korean Society of Visualization, Ulsan, Korea, Dec. 01, 2017.
  • “Numerical combustion: Fundamentals and applications”, Green Technology Tutorial, Yonsei Institute of Green Technology, Seoul, Korea, Jan. 19, 2015.
  • “High fidelity numerical simulations of reacting flows: Fundamentals and applications”, 50th Symposium (Japanese) on Combustion, Nagoya, Japan, Dec. 5 ~7, 2012.
  • “High-fidelity direct numerical simulations of reacting flows”, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, Jul. 18, 2011.
  • “Terascale simulations of turbulent lifted jet flames in heated coflows”, SINTEF, Trondheim, Norway, Oct. 27, 2008. 

 Professional Affiliations

  • The Combustion Institute
  • The Korean Society of Combustion (KOSCO)
  • The Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers (KSME)

Awards & Honors

  • The Best Research Award, The Korean Society of Combustion (KOSCO), Nov. 2016.
  • The Young Investigator Award, Asia-Pacific Conference on Combustion, Jul. 2015.
  • Outstanding Performance Award, UNIST, Jun. 2014.
  • 2009 US DOE SciDAC’s OSCAR Awards for Top Scientific Visualization (“Visualization of 3D turbulent lifted ethylene jet flame in highly-heated coflow” was produced by Hongfeng Yu and Ray W. Grout and the simulation was performed by Chun Sang Yoo, Ed Richardson, Ramanan Sankaran, Jacqueline H. Chen, 2009)

 Reviewer

  • Combustion and Flame
  • Proceedings of the Combustion Institute
  • Fuel
  • Energy
  • Energies
  • Combustion Science and Technology
  • Combustion Theory and Modelling
  • AIAA Journal
  • Energy & Fuels
  • Physics of Fluids
  • Chemical Engineering Science
  • Flow Turbulence and Combustion
  • International Journal of Hydrogen Energy
  • Journal of Automobile Engineering
  • Journal of Hazardous Materials
  • Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology

Journal Editor/Editorial Board

  • Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology, Associate editor, 2019 ~ present
  • Journal of the Korean Society of Combustion, Associate editor, 2020 ~ present
  • Energies, Editorial Board, 2020 ~ present
  • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B, Associate editor, 2016 ~ 2020

Program Committee Member/Organizer/Session Chair

  • 67th KOSCO Symposium (Organizing Committee Chair), Yeosu, Korea, Nov. 2024.
  • 29th International Colloquium on the Dynamics of Explosions and Reactive Systems (Local Organizing Committee), Siheung, Korea, Jul. 2023. 
  • 61st  KOSCO Symposium (Organizing Committee Chair), Jeju, Korea, Nov. 2021.
  • 38th International Symposium on Combustion (Session Chair), Adelaide, Australia, Jan. 2021.
  • 60th KOSCO Symposium (Organizing Committee), Korea, Sep. 2020.
  • 57th KOSCO Symposium (Organizing Committee), Jeju, Korea, Nov. 2018.
  • 36th International Symposium on Combustion (Work-In-Progress Poster Session Chair), Seoul, Korea, Aug. 2016.
  • 9th Asia-Pacific Conference on Combustion (Organizing Committee), Gyeongju, Korea, May 2013.

Ph.D. Students Supervised

  • Danh Nam Nguyen (Ph.D.), Aug. 2024
  • Gyeong Taek Kim (Ph.D.), Aug. 2022
  • Ki Sung Jung (Ph.D.), Aug. 2021
  • Jong Hak Kim (Ph.D.) Aug. 2021
  • Hyun Su Bak (Ph.D.), Aug. 2020
  • Gwang Hyeon Yu (Ph.D.), Aug. 2020
  • Hae Won Seo (Ph.D.), Aug. 2019
  • Seung Ook Kim (Ph.D.), Aug. 2019
  • Minh Bau Luong (Ph.D.), Aug. 2017

M.S. Students Supervised

  • Min Sung Kang (M.S.) Feb. 2022
  • Jaewon Shim (M.S.), Feb. 2022
  • Suhyeon Oh (M.S.), Aug. 2021
  • Hye Bin Shin (M.S.), Feb. 2021
  • Jeong Gi Park (M.S.), Aug. 2019
  • Jin Sol Choi (M.S.), Feb. 2019
  • Ba Reum Jung (M.S.), Feb. 2019
  • Ki Sung Jung (M.S.), Feb. 2018

Post Doctoral Researchers Supervised

  • Dr. Gwang Hyeon Yu (Sep. 2020 ~ Jun. 2021)
  • Dr. Jong Hak Kim (Sep. 2021 ~ Dec. 2021)
  • Dr. Ki Sung Jung (Sep. 2021 ~ Jan. 2022)

Publications

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