Dr Chun Hean Lee
- Senior Lecturer (Infrastructure & Environment)
telephone:
01413305392
email:
ChunHean.Lee@glasgow.ac.uk
Research interests
Biography
I am a Senior Lecturer for the James Watt School of Engineering and a member of the Glasgow Computational Engineering Centre (https://www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/gcec/), a subgroup of the Infrastructure and Environment Research Division.
I graduated with a BEng in Civil Engineering from Swansea University in 2007, followed by a PhD from the same institution. My PhD focused on the proof-of-concept development of a new system of first order conservation laws for computational solid dynamics (http://ukacm.org/wp-content/uploads/phdThesis/2012_CHLee.pdf). After graduating in 2012, I joined the EU funded “ASTUTE” project. In 2015, I was appointed as a Ser Cymru Research Fellow of the Zienkiewicz Centre for Computational Engineering at Swansea University.
Research Interest
My research interests are in computational mechanics, with special emphasis on the development, analysis and application of non-conventional computational methods for large strain fast solid dynamics. Specifically, a new computational paradigm is established on the basis of a new set of physical laws. These laws can be re-formulated as a system of first order conservation laws, with a similar structure to the mathematical equations used in CFD. The new approach lays the foundation for a unified modelling of multiple physics problems, including thermo-elasticity, fluid structure interaction and electromechanics. I am also interested in developing new computational methods for modelling of protection systems subjected to hyper-velocity impact. The applications include high strain rate material failure, gas pipe explosions/implosions and spacecraft shielding.
Grants
- EPSRC DTP Integrated Placement PhD Scholarship, 2023-2027 Title: SPH for Dynamic fracture. In collaboration with the SPH developer Fifty2 Technology. PI.
- EPSRC DTP PhD Scholarship, 2019-2022 Title: A first-order conservation law framework for large strain contact dynamics. PI.
- H2020 Marie Curie ETN, 2017-2021 Title: Industrial decision-making on complex production technologies supported by simulation-based engineering (ProTechTion). Total budget: €3.83 M. Estimated budget allocated to Swansea University: €546.5 K. Co-I at Swansea University.
- Sêr Cymru National Research Network Early Career Personal Fellowship award, 2015-2018 Title: Bridging the gap between computational fluid and solid dynamics: embedding advanced technologies into Welsh industries through massive parallelisation, £150.0 K. PI.
Supervision
Current PhD students:
- Jaugielavicius, Tadas [The development of SPH algorithm for fast dynamics brittle fracture]
- Liu, Xiaowei [Dynamic response of fibre reinfonced concrete structures]
- Richardson, Thomas [Multi-material modelling for shock hydrodynamics]
- Alfarisy, Dewangga [Efficient Bayesian methods for mechanical property identification of viscoelastic materials]
I am also looking for self-motivated students to work on PhD research in Computational Mechanics. Below is a list of potential PhD topics:
- Development of a monolithic first-order conservation law framework for Fluid Structure Interaction. Details can be found here.
Completed PhD topics:
- A novel Arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian Formulation written in terms of first-order conservation laws for solid dynamics. (T. B. J. Di Giusto, awarded in 2024)
- A first-order conservation law framework for large strain contact dynamics (C. J. Runcie, thesis awarded in 2023)
- An Updated Reference Lagrangian SPH algorithm for large strain computational dynamics and its extension to dynamic fracture (P. R. R. de Campos, thesis awarded in 2022. Paulo has been awarded Roger Owen PhD thesis 2023, the UK best PhD thesis 2023 in the field of computational mechanics)
- A first order hyperbolic framework for thermo-elasticity (A. Ghavamian, thesis awarded in 2020)
- A vertex centred finite volume algorithm for fast dynamics: Total and Updated Lagrangian descriptions (O. I. Hassan, awarded in 2019)
- An upwind cell centred finite volume method for large strain explicit solid dynamics in OpenFOAM (J. Haider, thesis awarded in 2018)
Teaching
- Mechanis of Structures 2A
- Integrated System Design Project 4
Additional information
- MEng project coordinator (ENG5041P) for Civil Engineering Discipline. 2023-Present.
- Honourary Research Associate, Zienkiewicz Institute for Modelling, Data and AI, Swansea University. 2018-Present.
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Member of the SPHERIC network representing University of Glasgow. 2021-present.
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Executive committee member of the UK Association of Computational Mechanics (UKACM). 2020-2023.
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BEng project coordinator (ENG4110P) for Civil Engineering Discipline. 2022-2023.