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

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 

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).
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).
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 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).