Dr. Myoungkyu Lee

Assistant Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

Office Location N236 Engineering Building 1

Phone 713-743-3536

Email leemk [at] uh.edu

Website https://lee.me.uh.edu

Education

Ph.D. – Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, 2015

B.S. – Mechanical Engineering, Hanyang University, 2008

Professional Experience

Scientific Advisory Committee, International Symposium on Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena, 2023 – Current

Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Houston, 2023 – Current

Assistant Professor, Department of Aerospace and Engineering Mechanics, University of Alabama, 2022 – 2023

Postdoctoral Researcher, Sandia National Laboratories, 2018 – 2021

Postdoctoral Researcher, Oden Institute of Computational Science and Engineering, 2016 – 2018

Courses Taught

MECE 3363 Introduction to Fluid Dynamics

MECE 6397 Advanced Numerical Method for Mechanical Engineering

MECE 6397 Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics

Research Interests

Dr. Lee's research interests span various areas, including high-performance computing, flows involving thermal and chemical nonequilibrium, and direct numerical simulations of wall-bounded turbulent flows with multiphysics phenomena such as electromagnetism.

Awards & Honors

Early Career Presenter Fellowship, the U.S. National Committee for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, 2021

Travel Award, Fluid Dynamics Software Infrastructure Workshop, The University of Colorado, Boulder, 2019

Best student paper finalist, SuperComputing, SC13, ACM, 2013

University Honor, The University of Texas at Austin, 2006

Sinyang Scholarship, Sinyang Cultural Foundation, 2005

University Scholarship, Hanyang University 2001

Selected Publications

Baars, Dacome and Lee, “Reynolds-number scaling of wall-pressure–velocity correlations in wall-bounded turbulence,” 2024, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 981, A15, https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2024.46
Holford, Lee and Hwang, “A data-driven quasi-linear approximation for turbulent channel flow,” 2024, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 980, A12, https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2023.1073
Holford, Lee and Hwang, “Optimal white-noise stochastic forcing for linear models of turbulent channel flow,” 2023, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 961, A32, https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2023.234
Neuroth, Rieth, Konduri, Lee, Chen and Ma, “Level Set Restricted Voronoi Tessellation for Large scale Spatial Statistical Analysis,” 2022, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 29(1), 548-558, https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2022.3209473
Patel, Manickam, Trask, Wood, Lee, Tomas and Cyr, “Thermodynamically consistent physics-informed neural networks for hyperbolic systems,” 2022, Journal of Computational Physics, 449, 110754, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2021.110754
Usher, Park, Lee, Navratil, Fussel and Pascucci, “A Simulation-Oblivious Data Transport Model for Flexible In Transit Visualization,” 2022, In In Situ Visualization for Computational Science, Springer, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81627-8_18
Smits, Hultmark, Lee, Pirozzoli and Wu, “Reynolds stress scaling in the near-wall region of wall-bounded flows,” 2021, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 926, A31, https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2021.736
Bae and Lee, “Life-cycle of streaks in the buffer layer of wall-bounded turbulence,” 2021, Physical Review Fluids, 6(6), 064603, Editor’s Suggestion, https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.6.064603
Yang, Hong, Lee and Huang, “Grid resolution requirement for resolving rare and high intensity wall-shear stress events in direct numerical simulations,” 2021, Physical Review Fluids, 6(5), 054603, Editor’s Suggestion, https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.6.054603
Deshpande, de Silva, Lee, Monty and Marusic, “Data-driven enhancement of coherent structure-based models for predicting instantaneous wall turbulence,” 2021, International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, 92, 108879, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheatfluidflow.2021.108879
Hwang and Lee, “The mean logarithm emerges with self-similar energy balance,” 2020, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 903, R6, https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2020.730
Lee and Moser, “Spectral analysis of the budget equation in turbulent channel flows at high Reynolds number,” 2019, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 860, 886-938, https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2018.903
Haering, Lee and Moser, “Resolution-induced anisotropy in LES,” 2019, Physical Review Fluids, 4(11), 114605, https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.4.114605
Lee and Moser, “Extreme-scale motions in turbulent plane Couette flows,” 2018, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 842, 128-145, https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2018.131
Panton, Lee and Moser, “Correlation of pressure fluctuations in turbulent wall layers,” 2017, Physical Review Fluids, 2(9), 094604, https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.2.094604
Malaya, McDougall, Simmons, Michoski and Lee, “Experiences Porting Scientific Applications to the Intel (KNL) Xeon Phi Platform,” 2017, In Proceedings of the Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing 2017 (PEARC’17) on Sustainability, Success and Impact. ACM, New Orleans, Louisiana, https://doi.org/10.1145/3093338.3093371
Graham, Kanov, Yang, Lee, Malaya, Lalescu, Burns, Eyink, Szalay, Moser and Meneveau, “A Web services accessible database of turbulent channel flow and its use for testing a new integral wall model for LES,” 2016, Journal of Turbulence 17(2), 181-215, https://doi.org/10.1080/14685248.2015.1088656
Lee and Moser, “Direct numerical simulation of turbulent channel flow up to Reτ =5200,” 2015, Journal of Fluid Mechanics 774, 395-415, https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2015.268
Lee, Ulerich, Malaya and Moser, “Experiences from Leadership computing in Simulations of turbulent Fluid Flows,” 2014, Computing in Science & Engineering 16, 5, 24-31, https://doi.org/10.1109/MCSE.2014.51
Lee, Malaya and Moser, “Petascale direct numerical simulation of turbulent channel flow on up to 786k cores,” 2013, In Proceedings of SC13: International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis. ACM, Denver, Colorado, Best student paper finalist, https://doi.org/10.1145/2503210.2503298