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Lee

Ki D. Lee

Professor

kdlee@uiuc.edu		 Return to: Faculty
Office address Mailing Address Research Group
302B Talbot Lab
217-244-0421		 306 Talbot Lab
104 S. Wright St.
Urbana, IL 61801		  
Research Areas
Prof. Lee teaches aerodynamics, computational fluid dynamics, and flight mechanics at both undergraduate and graduate levels. Prof. Lee is the director of the Computational Fluid Dynamics Laboratory which was established in 1987. Professor Lee's research activities have been in areas of aerodynamic design optimization, grid generation, and computational algorithm. His research projects include development of convergence acceleration methods, high-resolution algorithms for the Navier-Stokes equations, hyperson flow analysis, transonic drag reduction, high-lift design at take-off and landing configurations, transonic turbomachinery design, multi-block grid generation for complex configurations, solution-adaptive grid generation, and grid-quality improvement. His research has been funded by McDonnell-Douglas, Boeing, Textron Defense System, NASA Ames, and NASA Lewis.

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Education:

  • Ph.D., Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, University of Illinois at U-C 1976
  • M.S., Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, University of Illinois at U-C 1973
  • B.S., Aeronautical Engineering, Seoul National University, Korea 1967

Academic Positions:

  • Instructor, Korean Air Force Academy, Seoul, Korea, 1967-1971
  • University Fellow, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, 1971-1973
  • Research Assistant, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, 1973-1976
  • Research Associate, University of Illinois, CSL, 1976-1977
  • Associate Professor, University of Illinois, AAE (100%), 1985-1995
  • Senior Computer Scientist, University of Illinois, CSRD (0%), 1985-1987
  • Associate Professor, University of Illinois, MIE (0%), 1989-1995
  • Visiting Professor, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium, 1994
  • Professor, University of Illinois, MIE (0%), 1995-1999
  • Professor, University of Illinois, AAE (100%), 1995-present
  • Invited Professor, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, 2001

Major Honors and Awards:

  • Top of the Class, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, 1967
  • University Fellow, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, 1971-1973
  • Medal for International Cooperation, Donier Aircraft Co., Germany, September, 1981
  • Invited Lecturer, Korean Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul, Korea, Fall, 1983
  • Team Leader of The Best IR&D Team Award by DOD, Boeing, Seattle, WA, 1983, 1984
  • Invited Lecturer, Supercomputing Summer Institute, Seattle, WA, Summer, 1986
  • Faculty Summer Fellow, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, Summer, 1993
  • Faculty Summer Fellow, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, Summer, 1994
  • Faculty Summer Fellow, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, Summer, 1994
  • Visiting Summer Faculty, The Boeing Company, Seattle, WA, Summer, 1996
  • Special Service Citation, AIAA, Washington, DC, April 1998
  • Man of the Year, Kyunggi High School Alumni Association, Seoul, Korea, December 1998
  • Installation to Overseas Member, National Academy of Engineering of Korea, 1999
  • Award for Turning Goals into Reality, NASA, Washington, DC, 2001
  • Invited Professor, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, Jan-Dec, 2001

Selected Publications:

  • Shim, J., Chung, J., and Lee, K. D., "A Comparison of Turbulence Modeling in Flow Analysis of Iced Airfoils," Proceedings of 18th AIAA Applied Aerodynamics Conference, pp. 30-37, Vol. 1, August, 2000.
  • Shim, J., Chung, J., and Lee, K. D., "A Grid Generation Strategy for CFD Analysis of Iced Airfoil Flows," Proceedings of 7th International Conference on Numerical Grid Generation in Computational Field Simulations, pp. 71-80, Whistler, BC, Canada, September 2000.
  • Lee, K. D., Chung, J., and Shim, J., "Shape Optimization of Compressor Blades Using 3D Navier-Stokes Flow Physics," Proceedings of KSCFE 2001, BEXCO, Busan, Korea, May 2001.
  • Lee, K. D., "The Present and the Future of Spacecraft and Launch Vehicles," Proceedings of the 2002 World Congress of Korean Scientists and Engineers, Seoul, Korea, July 2002.
  • Lee, K. D., Shim, J., and Chung, J., "Ice Effects on Aerodynamic Performance of Airfoils," Numerical Simulations of Incompressible Flows, edited by M. M. Hafez, World Scientific Publishing, 2003, pp.450-459.