Cheng Huang

Cheng Huang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Kansas. His research focuses on computational fluid dynamics, aerospace propulsion, turbulent combustion modeling, and reduced-order modeling techniques. He is affiliated with the Computational AeroPropulsion Laboratory and can be contacted at chenghuang@ku.edu.

Education:

• B.S. from Shanghai Jiaotong University
• M.S. and Ph.D. from Purdue University

Research Interests:

• LES Modeling of Turbulent Reacting Flows
• Data-Driven and Reduced-Order Modeling of Complex Fluid Flows
• Combustion Instability Analysis in Aerospace Propulsion

Recent Work Trends: His publications emphasize reduced-order modeling techniques for rocket combustion dynamics, rotating detonation engines, and multiscale fluid systems. Key methodologies include projection-based models, data-driven approaches, and nonlinear approximations of latent dynamics.