Faculty
Dr. Kelly Huang
Kalsi Assistant Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Office Location N223 Engineering Building 1
Phone 713-743-2728
Fax 713-743-4503
Email yhuang68 [at] uh.edu
Website https://atlas-uh.github.io/
Education
Ph.D., Princeton University
M.A., Princeton University
B.S., Cornell University
Professional Experience
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Notre Dame
Professional and Scientific Affiliations
Associate Editor, ARC Geophysical Research
Member, American Physical Society
Member, American Geophysical Union
Courses Taught
MECE 2334: Thermodynamics
MECE 5397/6397: Introduction to Environmental Fluid Dynamics
Research Interests
Environmental Fluid Mechanics ‚ Turbulence ‚ Sensing Techniques ‚ Surface-Atmosphere Interactions ‚ Boundary-Layer Meteorology ‚ Experiments
Current Research Projects
Wind-wave-vegetation interactions
Model for fog statistics
Flow over complex topography
High-resolution relative humidity sensor development
Awards & Honors
NREL Faculty-Applied Clean Energy Science (FACES) Program Awardee, 2024
Engineering Council’s Excellence in Teaching Award, Princeton University, 2020
First prize at the Mechanical Engineering department Bake-Off, Princeton University, 2019
National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship, 2017
Undergraduate Student of the Year, Cornell University Diversity Programs in Engineering, 2015
Selected Publications
- T.J. Hintz, K. Y. Huang, S. W. Hoch, S. L. Bardoel, S. Gaberšek, I. Gultepe, J. Ruiz-Plancarte, E. Pardyjak, Q. Wang, and H. J. S. Fernando, A mechanism for coastal fog genesis at evening transition, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society (2024).
- H.J.S. Fernando, S. Wang, K. Y. Huang, and E. Creegan, Fog-laden density staircases in marine atmospheric boundary layer, Environmental Fluid Mechanics (2023).
- K. Y. Huang, M. K. Fu, C. Byers, G. G. Katul, and A. D. Bragg, Logarithmic scaling of higher-order temperature moments in the atmospheric surface layer, International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow (2023).
- K. Y. Huang, G. G. Katul, T. J. Hintz, J. Ruiz-Plancarte, and H. J. S. Fernando, Fog intermittency and criticality, Atmosphere (2023).
- K. Y. Huang and G. G. Katul, Profiles of high-order moments of longitudinal velocity explained by the random sweeping decorrelation hypothesis, Physical Review Fluids (2022).
- K. Y. Huang, G. G. Katul, and M. Hultmark, Velocity and temperature dissimilarity in the surface layer uncovered by the telegraph approximation, Boundary-Layer Meteorology (2021).
- K. Y. Huang, C. E. Brunner, M. K. Fu, K. Kokmanian, T. Morrison, A. O. Perelet, M. Calaf, E. Pardyjak, and M. Hultmark, Investigation of the atmospheric surface layer using a novel high-resolution sensor array, Experiments in Fluids (2021).