Dr. Loc Van Nguyen

  

Email: loc@engineering.ucsb.edu

  Telephone :(805) 893-4942

 

Education

• Moscow Power Engineering Institute ( Moscow Technical University ), Russia, Ph.D, Thermal Engineering, 1994
• Moscow Power Engineering Institute ( Moscow Technical University ) Russia, MS, Thermal Engineering, 1990

Professional Appointments

• University of California, Santa Barbara, California, USA, Research Fellow (2003-).
• Department of Technology of Water and Fuel, MPEI (TU), Moscow , Russia Postdoctoral Research Fellow (1994-2002)

Research Interests

Computational fluid dynamics for multiphase flow models, steam explosion.

Selected Recent Publications

1. M.-S.Liou, L.Nguyen, C.-H.Chang, S.Sushchikh, R.R.Nourgaliev, and T.G.Theofanous,
"Hyperbolicity, Discontinuities, and Numerics of Two-Fluid Models",
The 4th International Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics, ICCFD'4, July 10-14, 2006, Ghent, Belgium.

2. R.R.Nourgaliev, T.N.Dinh, L.Nguyen, and T.G.Theofanous,"Treatment of Particle Collisions in Direct Numerical Simulations
of High Speed Compressible Flows ,” in Proceedings of an IUTAM Symposium on Computational Approaches
to Disperse Multiphase Flow, S.Balachandar and A.Prosperetti (eds), Springer, pp.247-259, Dordrecht, 2006.