David Y.S. Lou

(402) 472-2970

E-mail: dlou1@unl.edu

• Sc.D., 1967, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• M.E.,  1966, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• M.S.,  1963, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• B.S.,   1959, National Taiwan University, Taiwan, China

Dr. Lou joined UNL as chairman of the Department in 1993. Prior to that, he served as chairman at Syracuse University, the University of Texas at Arlington, and the University of Delaware. He is a member of the ASME and associate editor of its Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power. He is a member of Rho Psi, Sigma Xi, Pi Tau Sigma, and Tau Beta Pi. Dr. Lou is listed in American Men and Women of Science, Who's Who in America, Who's Who in Science and Engineering, and Who's Who in the World.

Research Interests:

Thermal analysis of curing of composite materials, thermal manufacturing process analysis, thermal modeling of pulse combustors, heat transfer in phase change materials, entrance region heat transfer in channels and tubes, heat conduction in rarefied gases, solar thermal energy conversion, solar collectors, energy storage, photovoltaic assisted heat pump systems, biomechanics of arterial blood flow, orthopedic biomechanics.

Selected Publications:

• Lin, J. and Lou, D.Y.S., "Simplified Helical Model for Laser Curing of Thermoset Composites in Filament Winding," Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics, and Thermodynamics, Cairo, Egypt, September 19-22, 2005.
• Lou, D.Y.S., "Heat Transfer in Pulse Burners," Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics, and Thermodynamics, Cape Town, South Africa, June 21-24, 2004.
• Lou, D.Y.S., "Some Quality Assurance Measures in Mechanical Engineering Education," Proceedings of the Seventh UCIEE Conference on Engineering Education, Mumbai, India, February 9-13, 2004.
• Lou, D.Y.S., "Some Program Outcome Assessment Issues," Proceedings of the Fourth Asia-Pacific Forum on Engineering and Technology Education, Bangkok, Thailand, July 16-19, 2003.
• Wang, X. and Lou, D.Y.S., "A Helical Tow Model for Online Laser Curing of Thermoset Composites in Filament Winding Using Numerical Gride Generation Model," Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics, and Thermodynamics, Victoria Falls, Zambia, June 23-26, 2003.
• Wang, X. and Lou, D.Y.S., "Simple Thermal Model for Online Curing of Thermoset Composites in Filament Winding," International Journal of Energy Research, Vol. 27, pp. 377-388, 2003.
• Lou, D.Y.S., "Online Laser Curing of Thermoset Composites in Filament Winding," Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Composites Engineering-ICCE/9, San Diego, CA, July 1-6, 2002.
• D.Y.S. Lou, "Online Laser Curing with Preheating of Thermoset Composites in Filament Winding," Proceedings of CHT'02 - Advanced Computational Methods Heat Transfer 2002 Conference, Halkidiki, Greece, April 22-24, 2002.
• X. Wang and D.Y.S. Lou, "Improved Model of Online Laser Curing of Thermoset Composites in Filament Winding," Invited keynote paper, Proceedings of the 4th International Thermal Energy Congress, Cseme, Turkey, July 8-12, 2001.
• X. Wang and D.Y.S. Lou, "Numerical Simulation of Online Laser Curing of Thermoset Composites in Filament Winding," Proceedings of CHT'01 - Advances in Computational Heat Transfer, Palm Cove, Austrialia, May 20-25, 2001.
• X. Wang and D.Y.S. Lou, "Thermal Modeling of In-situ Laser Curing of Thermoset-Matrix Composites in Filament Winding," Proceedings of the First International Conference on Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai, China, November 18-22, 2000.
• X. Wang and D.Y.S. Lou, "Modeling of In-situ Laser Curing of Thermoset Composites in Filament Winding," Proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on Transport Phenomena, Istanbul, Turkey, July 16-20, 2000.
• D.Y.S. Lou and X. Wang, "A Numerical Study of Heat Transfer in Laminar Pulsatile Pipe Flows," Proceedings of the First Conference on Engineering Thermophysics, Beijing, China, August 18-21, 1999.
• D.Y.S. Lou and X. Wang, "Heat Transfer in Pulsatile Flow in a Pipe," Proceedings of the ASME/JSME/CSPE International Conference on Power Engineering, Tokyo, Japan, July 13-17, 1997.
• S.P. Kinsey, A. Haji-Sheikh and D.Y.S. Lou, "A Thermal Model for Cure of Advanced Composite Materials," Journal of Materials Processing & Manufacturing Science, Special Issue, Vol. 63, 1997.
• D.Y.S. Lou, "Heat Transfer in Pulse Burners," Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Transport Phenomena in Thermal-Fluids Engineering, Singapore, June 25-28, 1996.
• D.Y.S. Lou and J. Chen, "Numerical Study on Heat Transfer in Pulse Combustor Burners," Proceedings of the ASME/CSPE/JSME International Conference on Power Engineering, Shanghai, China, May 22-26, 1995.
• D.Y.S. Lou and J. Chen, "Empirical Study on Heat Transfer in Pulse Combustor," 6th International Symposium on Transport Phenomena, Seoul, Korea, May 9-13, 1993.
• N. Ghariban, D.Y.S. Lou and A. Haji-Sheikh, "The Effect of Honeycomb Flow Straighteners on Turbulence and Heat Transfer in an Autoclave Model," Transport Phenomena in Processing of Thermoplastics and Thermoplastic Composites Session, ASME Winter Annual Meeting, Anaheim, California, November 8-13, 1992.
• S.P. Kinsey, A. Haji-Sheikh and D.Y.S. Lou, "A Numerical Thermal Model for Curing Advanced Composite Materials," Proc. Conference on the Transport Phenomena in Processing, Honolulu, Hawaii, March 22-26, 1992.
• D. Kundu, A. Haji-Sheikh and D.Y.S. Lou, "Heat Transfer in Crossflow over Cylinders between Two Parallel Plates," ASME Journal of Heat Transfer, Vol. 114, 1992.
• D. Kundu, A. Haji-Sheikh and D.Y.S. Lou, "Pressure and Heat Transfer in Crossflow over Cylinders between Two Parallel Plates," Journal of Numerical Heat Transfer, Part A, Vol. 19, 1991.