Dr. Danny Fong
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
University of California, Los Angeles
Education
- BS Mechanical Engineering, UC Berkeley, 2008
- MS Mechanical Engineering, UCLA, 2012
- PhD Mechanical Engineering, UCLA, 2017
- Thesis: "Numerical Study of 2-D Surface Roughness Effects on the Growth of Wave Modes in Hypersonic Boundary Layers"
- MAE Dept. Commencement Award for Outstanding Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering 2017
Research Interests
- Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) specifically direct numerical simulation (DNS)
- Direct numerical simulation of a hypersonic boundary layer
- Effects of a 2D and 3D roughness element on transition location
Publications
- K.D. Fong, X. Wang, Y. Huang, X. Zhong, G.R. McKiernan, R.A. Fisher and S.P. Schneider, "Second Mode Suppression in Hypersonic Boundary Layer by Roughness: Design and Experiments", AIAA Journal, Vol. 53, No. 10 (2015), pp. 3138-3144. doi: 10.2514/1.J054100
- K. Fong, X. Wang, and X. Zhong, "Numerical simulation of roughness effect on the stability of a hypersonic boundary layer", Computers and Fluids Vol. 96, pp. 350-367, 2014.
- K.D. Fong, X. Zhong, "DNS and PSE Study on the Stabilization Effect of Hypersonic Boundary Layer Waves Using 2-D Surface Roughness", AIAA paper 2016-3347, June 2016.
- K.D. Fong, X. Wang, and X. Zhong, "Parametric Study on Stabilization of Hypersonic Boundary-Layer Waves Using 2-D Surface Roughness", AIAA paper 2015-0837, January 2015.
- K. Fong, X. Wang, and X. Zhong, "Stabilization of Hypersonic Boundary Layer by 2-D Surface Roughness", AIAA paper 2013-2985, June 2013.
- K. Fong, X. Wang, and X. Zhong, "Finite roughness effect on modal growth of a hypersonic boundary layer", AIAA paper 2012-1086, 2012.
- D. Fong, X. Wang and X. Zhong, "Numerical Simulation of Roughness Effect on the Stability of a Hypersonic Boundary Layer", Seventh International Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics, ICCFD7-1502, July 2012.
