Xiaolin Zhong

Xiaolin Zhong
Professor, MAE Dept, UCLA


A Short Bio:

Professor, Mechanical and Aerosp ace Engineering Department, University of California, Los Angeles, (2002-present) Associate Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, University of California, Los Angeles, (1997-2002) Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, University of California, Los Angeles, (1991-1997) Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University, California, 1991 B.S. in Fluid Mechanics, Department of Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 1984 Elected to Associate Fellow of AIAA in 2000.

Associate Ediot of the AIAA Journal
Member of APS.

Areas of Research Interest:

Computational fluid dynamics, hypersonic flows, hypersonic boundary-layer stability and transition, high-order numerical methods for transient reacting hypersonic flow simulation, low Reynolds number aerodynamics, parallel computing, and rarefied gas dynamics.

Consulting Activities:

International Remote Imaging Systems (iris), California Innovative Scientific Solutions, Inc., Ohio

Address & Phone Numbers:

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department
46-147C, Engineering IV Building
University of California, Los Angeles
405 Hilgard Avenue
Los Angeles, California 90095-1597

E-mail: xiaolin at seas dot ucla dot edu
Phone: (310) 825-2905
Fax: (310) 206-4830

Further Information:

Further information on the current reserach projects and postscript files for some of the recent papers can be found in the homepage of his research group: the Hypersonics and Computational Aerodynamics Group in the Computational Fluid Dynamics Lab, MAE department, UCLA.