GE (GEORGE) WANG, PhD

Mechanical Engineering and Civil Engineering

3135 West Springs Drive, Ellicott City, MD, 21043 ♦

410-662-2924 (cell) ♦ US Permanent Resident

CAREER SUMMARY AND STRENGTH

  • Applied research scientist with7+ years of extensive experience in Computational Mechanics Software Development and Commercial Software Applications to solve complex mechanical and civil engineering problems.
  • Proficiency in applications of structure/fracture and fluid commercial software packages such as DYNA3D, AUTODYN, LS-DYNA, PFC2D, ABAQUS, GEMINI, FLOW3D and MM5.
  • Excellent analytical and trouble-shooting skills. Excellent FORTRAN, C++/C and Java programming ability in UNIX, LINUX and PC.
  • Solid numerical skills utilizing finite difference method, finite element analysis, finite volume method, and discrete element method.
  • Publish 46 peer-reviewed papers published in highly reputable journals and conference proceedings. University teaching experience and supervised junior researchers.
  • Notable experience includes fluid-structure interactions, material coating strategy modeling, stochastic modeling, Monte Carlo modeling, material processing modeling (including polymer, epoxy, vinyl ester, nylon6,6, rubber, carbon fiber, Kevlar and glass, rocks, pyrite and calcite), dynamic fracture of material under extreme loads (high-speed impact, penetration, blast, heating), shock wave propagation in solids, strength of composite material design, structure stress analysis, flooding forecast and assessment, material erosion/scouring, atmospheric flow and dispersion, cavitation flow, surface flow, turbulent flow, heat transfer and thermally-induced fracture.
  • Good team work and excellentcommunication skills;highly self-motivated with strong desire to learn new technologies. Can-do enthusiasm. Highly analytical and meticulous in project planning and execution.

SELECTED ACHIEVEMENTS

  • Established 3D Hybrid Lattice Particle Modeling code; jointly developed other notable codes: HOTMAC/RAPTAD, VOF and hydraulic flooding code.
  • Established 3D one-phase continuum weakly-compressible Large Eddy Simulation cavitation code.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Associate Research Scientist, John Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, current~

•Electromechanical modeling developer of whole-heart: US NIH project. 3D FEA whole-heart mechanical model is developed and coupled with ionic myofilament modeling. Insight is provided into the mechanism of mechanoelectric coupling contribution to ventricular arrythmogenesis, the relationship between electrical activation and the mechanical contraction in the normal ventricles, and the mechanisms of mechanical dyssynchrony in the failing heart. C/C++ large FEA code development, nonlinear dynamics, Cubic Hermite, Gaussian quadrature, Newton’s Method, parallel computing (Petsc etc.) .

Senior Research Scientist, Dynaflow Inc., Jessup, MD,

  • Fluid-Solid Interaction(FSI) research of under water explosion near a propeller: US ONR project. GEMINI/DYNA3D coupled in simulations; composite material made propeller with different fiber orientations and properties (polymer, rubber, carbon, Kevlar and glass) and different detonation amount, depth and angle positioning to the propeller. Stress, defection and failure analysis for optimum design.
  • Erosion of materials due to cavitating flow: particle modeling interfacing with bubble dynamics data to simulate hydraulic force driven material erosion.

Research Assistant Professor, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS,

  • Fracture of materials under extreme loads: DHS project “Nano-Particle Reinforced Composites for Critical Infrastructure Protection” ($1.2 M). Particle modeling, stochastic modeling, AUTODYN, LS-DYNA and PFC2D applied for impact/penetration investigations of polymeric materials (nylon6,6, vinyl ester, epoxy and nano-enforced), fire protection and retrofitting infrastructure design with multi-layered graded materials.
  • Loose sand foundation erosion due to plunging flow: DHS project “Structural, Material and Geotechnical Solutions to Levee & Floodwall Construction & Retrofitting” ($2 M). FLOW3D applied for the investigation of New Orleans’s levee system failure during Katrina 2005 with its foundation failure due to overtopping flow; pursuing optimum design. One-week training of FLOW3D at Santa Fe, NM.
  • Flooding forecast and assessment: USDA project. Shallow water flooding code developed to produce flooding forecast and assessment. GIS DEM terrain data employed.
  • Proposal writing, course teaching, management of proposal design, supervising junior researchers.

NSERC-COREM Postdoctoral Researcher, McGill University, Canada,

  • Dynamic fragmentation of materials (comminution, high-speed impact, blast, etc.): NSERC-COREM project. Thermal particle modeling developed and applied to investigating thermally-induced fracture of rocks; fracturing rocks with microwave modeled for visualizing, managing, creating and analyzing for developing high-efficient fracturing devices; valuable conclusions obtained; stochastic modeling of material developed. Computational efficiency optimized. One-week training of MPI at McGill University. Research proposals, reports writing.

Previous research work in China, Universities of Minnesota, Arizona State University, and Los Alamos US Laboratory included projects resulting in significant publications that continue to be quoted:

  • Atmospheric flow/pollutant transportation over complex terrains, Monte Carol modeling.
  • Sheet/cloud cavitation evolution on a NACA0015 hydrofoil.
  • Small scale structure in oscillatory flow.
  • Wave breaking simulation.

EDUCATION

PHD, Mechanical Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.

Computational Solid Mechanics

Thesis: Particle modeling of dynamic fragmentation

MS, Civil Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China.

Computational Fluid Dynamics\turbulent flow around structure

BS, Marine and Naval Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China, Ship Hull Design

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

  • Member of ASME

AWARDS

  • Canadian NSERC-COREM Postdoctoral Scholarship

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  • Hybrid lattice particle modeling of spallation of solids, Wang, G., Cheng, A.H.-D. and Al-Ostaz, A., Horizons in World Physics (edited by Albert Reimer), Volume 274, Nova Science Publishers, ISBN: 978-1-62257-695-1, chapter 3, 39-74, 2012.
  • Hybrid lattice particle modeling of retrofitting infrastructure design under a blasting load, Wang, G., Al-Ostaz, A. and Cheng, A.H.-D., ASCE Journal of Nanomechanics and Micromechanics, Vol. 1, No. 4, 119-133, 2011.
  • Reducing Erosion of Earthen Levees Using Engineered Flood Wall Surface, Song, C.R., Kim, J., Wang, G. and Cheng, A.H.-D., ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 137, 874-880, 2011.
  • Hybrid lattice particle modeling Approach for Polymeric Materials Subject to High Strain Rate Loads, Wang, G., Cheng, A.H.-D., Ostoja-Starzewski, M., Al-Ostaz, A., Radziszewski, P., review paper invited to Polymers, 2, 3-30, 2010.
  • Particle modeling and its current success in the simulations of dynamic fragmentation of solids, Wang, G., Al-Ostaz, A., Cheng, A.H.-D., Radziszewski, P., Strength of Materials (edited by Gustavo Mendes and Bruno Lago), Nova Science Publishers, ISBN: 978-60741-500-8, chapter 5, 157-182, 2009.
  • Hybrid lattice particle modeling of wave propagation induced fracture of solids, Wang, G., Al-Ostaz, A., Cheng, A.H.-D., Mantena, P.R., Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering,199, 197–209, 2009.
  • A macroscopic-level hybrid lattice particle modeling of Mode-I crack propagation in inelastic materials with varying ductility, Wang, G., Al-Ostaz, A., Cheng, A.H.-D., Mantena, P.R., International Journal of Solids and Structures, 46, 4054-4063, 2009.
  • Particle modeling of polymeric material indentation study, Wang, G., Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 76, 1386-1395, 2009.
  • Hybrid lattice particle modeling: theoretical considerations for a 2-D elastic spring network for dynamic fracture simulations, Wang, G., Al-Ostaz, A., Cheng, A.H.-D., Mantena, P.R., Computational Materials Science, 44, 1126-1134, 2009.
  • Particle Modeling of a Polymeric material (nylon-6, 6) due to the Impact of a Rigid indenter, Wang, G., Al-Ostaz, A., Cheng, A.H.-D., Mantena, P.R., Computational Materials Science, 44, 449-463, 2008.
  • Particle modeling simulation of thermal effects on ore breakage, Wang, G., Radziszewski, P., Ouellet, J., Computational Materials Science, 43, 892-901, 2008.
  • Large eddy simulation approach of sheet/cloud cavitation on a NACA0015, Wang, G., Ostoja-Starzewski, M., Applied Mathematical Modeling, 31, 417-447, 2007.
  • Particle Modeling of Random Crack Patterns in Epoxy Plates, Ostoja-Starzewski, M., Wang, G., Probabilistic Engineering Mechanics, 21, 267-275, 2006.
  • Particle modeling of dynamic fragmentation – II: fracture in single- and multi-phase materials, Wang, G., Ostoja-Starzewski, M., Radziszewski, P., Ourriban, M., Computational Materials Science, 35, 116-133, 2006.
  • Meteorological simulations of atmospheric flow and tracer transport in Phoenix, Arizona, Wang, G., Ostoja-Starzewski, M., Meteorological Applications, 13, 235-241, 2006.
  • Particle modeling of dynamic fragmentation – I: theoretical considerations, Wang, G., Ostoja-Starzewski, M., Computational Materials Science, 33, 429-442, 2005.
  • Influence of topography on the Phoenix CO2 dome: a computational study, Wang, G., Ostoja-Starzewski, M., Atmospheric Science Letters, 5, 103-107, 2004.
  • A numerical study of plume dispersion motivated by a mesoscale atmospheric flow over a complex terrain, Wang, G., Ostoja-Starzewski, M., Applied Mathematical Modeling, 28, 957-981, 2004.

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