Dr. Chang-kwon Kang Associate Professor, MAE Contact 5000 Technology Drive NWOlin B. King Technology HallRoom N266Huntsville, AL 35899 Campus Map 256.824.6612chang-kwon.kang@uah.edu Biography Dr. Chang-kwon Kang is an Associate Professor at the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering of The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH). He has co-authored a book and around 70 journal and conference papers on unsteady aerodynamics, bioinspired aerial and Mars vehicles, insect flight, and fluid-structure interaction. He received his bachelor's and master's degree in Aerospace Engineering from the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands and PhD in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan in 2011. He was also a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Michigan before joining UAH in 2013. Curriculum Vitae Personal Website Education Ph.D., Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, 2011 M.Sc., Aerospace Engineering, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, 2005 B.Sc., Aerospace Engineering, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, 2002 Honors & Awards University of Alabama in Huntsville, Outstanding Junior Faculty of the College of Engineering, 2019 2019 AIAA Atmospheric Flight Mechanics Best Student Paper (Madhu Sridhar): AIAA 2019-0566 NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Fellow, 2018 University of Alabama in Huntsville Individual Investigator Distinguished Research Award, 2014 Affiliations Associate Fellow - AIAA Expertise Bioinspired and unsteady fluid dynamics Bioinspired aerospace vehicles for terrestrial and Mars flight Fluid-structure-dynamic interaction Computational fluid dynamics Surrogate models Recent Publications Sridhar, M.K., Kang, C., Landrum, D.B., Aono, H., Mathis, S.H., Lee, T., “Unconventionally high lift coefficients in Monarch butterflies at high-altitude conditions”, Bioinspiration & Biomimetics (2019 impact factor: 3.062), Vol. 16, 2021, 034002 K. C., Tejaswi, Sridhar, M.K., Kang, C., and Lee, T, “Effects of Abdomen Undulation in Energy Consumption and Stability for the Flights of Monarch Butterfly,” Bioinspiration & Biomimetics (2019 impact factor: 3.062), in press Hefner, C, Kang, C., Qiu, H., and Shyy, W. "Distinct Aerodynamics of Insect Flight," Cambridge Elements, in press Pohly, J., Kang, C., Sridhar, M.K., Landrum, D.B., Bluman, J.E., Aono, H., “Scaling Bioinspired Mars Flight Vehicles for Hover," Acta Astronautica (2019 impact factor: 2.830), Vol. 180, 2021, pp. 545 - 559 Nedunchezian, K., Kang, C., and Aono, H. "A Numerical Analysis of the Effects of Wing Kinematics on Flapping Wing Aeroacoustics," Journal of Sound and Vibration (2018 impact factor: 3.123), Vol. 442, 2019, pp. 366 - 383 Raghu, S. L., Kang, C., Whitehead, P., Takeyama, A., and Conners, R., “Static accuracy analysis of Vicon T40s motion capture cameras arranged externally for motion capture in constrained aquatic environments," Journal of Biomechanics (2018 impact factor: 2.576), Vol. 89, 2019, pp. 139–142 Medina, C. and Kang, C. "Analytical Solution to the Aeroelastic Response of a Two-dimensional Elastic Plate in Axial Potential Flow," Journal of Fluid Mechanics (2017 impact factor: 2.893), Vol. 845, R3, 2018 Arora, N., Kang, C., Shyy, W., and Gupta, A. "Analysis of Passive Flexion in Propelling a Plunging Membrane using a Torsional Spring Model," Journal of Fluid Mechanics (2017 impact factor: 2.893), Vol. 857, pp. 562 – 604, 2018 Bluman, J. E., Sridhar, M., and Kang, C. "Passive Stabilization of Hovering Fruit Fly Models with Flexible Wings," Journal of Royal Society Interface (2017 impact factor: 3.355), Vol. 15, pp. 20180409, 2018 Bluman, J. E., Pohly, J., Sridhar, M., Kang, C., Landrum, D. B., and Fahimi, F. "Achieving Bioinspired Flapping Wing Hovering Flight Solutions on Mars via Wing Scaling," Bioinspiration & Biomimetics (2017 impact factor: 2.727), Vol. 13, pp. 046010, 2018
