Research Interests:
Combustion-generated pollution; combustion and Propulsion; heat transfer and cooling; fluid mechanics and supersonic flows and noise; aerosol flow and detection.

Degrees:

• Ph.D. Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan, 1988
• M.S. Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan, 1985
• B.S. Aeronautical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, 1981

Recent Publications:

• Ruey-Hung Chen, M. Chaos, and A. Kothawala (2006) Lewis number effects in diffusion flames, in press, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, Vol. 31; also to be presented at the 31st International Symposium on Combustion, Heidelberg, Germany, August 6-11, 2006.
• M. Kandula, G. H. Hadda, and Ruey-Hung Chen (2006) Three-dimensional boundary layer corrections for critical heat flux gauges in a flat plate with a surface temperature discontinuity, accepted by International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, June 6.
• Ruey-Hung Chen, C. Suryanarayana, and M. Chaos (2006) Combustion characteristics of mechanically alloyed ultrafine-grained Mg-Al powders, to appear in Advanced Engineering Materials, Vol. 8, No. 6, 563-567.
• Ruey-Hung Chen, A. Kothawala, M. Chaos and L. P. Chew (2005) Schmidt number effect in diffusion flame lift-off, Combustion and Flame, Vol. 141, 469-472.
• M. Chaos, Ruey-Hung Chen, E. Welle, and W. L. Roberts (2005) Fuel Lewis number effects in unsteady Burke-Schumann hydrogen flames, Combustion Science and Technology, Vol. 177 (1), 75-88.
• Ruey-Hung Chen, L. C. Chow and J. E. Navedo (2004) Optimal Spray Characteristics in water spray cooling, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 47, 5095-5099.
• Y.-C. Chao, C.-Y. Wu, K.-Y. Lee, Y.-He. Li, Ruey-Hung Chen and T.-S. Cheng (2004) Effects of dilution on blowout limits of turbulent jet flames, Combustion Science and Technology, Vol. 176, 1-20.
• M. Chaos and Ruey-Hung Chen (2004) An experimental study of pulsating instability in near-limit laminar nonpremixed flames, Combustion Science and Technology, Vol. 176, 1191-1215.
• Ruey-Hung Chen, M. Chaos, G. F. Haddad and T. E. Mills (2004) Effects of vortex shedding by particles in acoustic transducers, Journal of Sound and Vibration, Vol. 270(1-2), 473-479.
• D. Singh, C. Suryanarayana, L. Mertus, Ruey-Hung Chen (2003) Extended homogeneity range of metallic phases in mechanically alloyed Al-Mg alloys, Intermetallics, Vol. 11, 373-376.

Scientific and Professional Societies:

• ASME
• The Combustion Institute

Honors and Awards:

• UCF Teaching Incentive Award for academic years 1998 - 2003
• State University System/UCF/COE Teaching Incentive Award for academic years 1994-98