Professor of Mathematics

Phone: (757) 728-6840

E-mail: hong.hu@hamptonu.edu

Research:

Prof. Hong Hu served as Principal Investigator for over ten NASA/DoD sponsored research and developmental projects (with a total funding over $1 million), supervised and trained students. Published over 40 research papers, including 18 refereed journal papers.  Along with his students, Prof. Hu accomplished several research objectives in the areas of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), parallel computations and Aerodynamic, such as:

CFD acoustic and aerodynamic analysis of the effect of blade tip-geometry on BVI noise reduction; development of a parallel version of the FPX rotor analysis code based on OpenMP parallel directives; development of a rotor section design package using the CDISC design algorithm and the FPX rotor CFD code; development of a rapid CFD code for assessing the effect of tip shape on rotor aerodynamics; development of CFD tools for rapid computation of airfoil force and moment tables for use in rotorcraft multi-disciplinary analysis; assessment of tip shape effects on the vortex roll-up characteristics of the V-22 aircraft; development of a sensitivity analysis version of a multigrid 2D Navier-Stokes code; development of a sensitivity analysis version of the FPX rotor analysis code; development of an integral equation CFD code for 3D transonic flow computations; and assessment of computational performance of an integral equation CFD code on massively parallel computing environment.

Part of Prof. Hu's research is reflected in some of his Refereed Journal Publications:

(* indicates undergraduate and ** indicates graduate students.)

1. Hu, Hong, **Jordan, Leon A. Jr. and Baeder, James D., “Computational Simulation and Analysis of Double-Swept Blade in BVI Noise Reduction”, Advances in Engineering Software, Vol.36, No.2, 2005, pp. 67-76.

2. Hu, Hong, “Computational Analysis of Effects of Blade Shapes on Tip-Vortices”, Advances in Engineering Software, Vol.34, No.5, 2003, pp. 279-286.

3. Hu, Hong, “A Rotor Section Aerodynamic Design Package Using the Direct Iterative Surface Curvature Method”, Comput. Methods Appl. Mech. Engrg., Vol. 190, Nos. 32-33, 2001, pp.4279-4287.

4. **Turner, Edward L. and Hu, Hong,  “A Parallel CFD Rotor Code Using OpenMP”, Advances in Engineering Software, Vol. 32, No. 8, 2001, pp. 665-671.

5. Hu, Hong, “Development of a Sensitivity Derivative Version of the FPX CFD Code via Automatic Differentiation”, Advances in Engineering Software, Vol. 30, No. 4, 1999, pp. 273-279.

6. Hu, Hong, “A Multigrid Navier-Stokes CFD Code for Rotor Computations”,  Comput. Methods Appl. Mech. Engrg., Vol. 167, Nos. 1-2, 1998, pp. 127-137.

7. Hu, Hong, “Application of an Automatic Differentiation Method to a 2D Navier-Stokes CFD Code”,  Comput. Methods Appl. Mech. Engrg., Vol. 156, Nos. 1-4, 1998, pp. 179-183.

8. Hu, Hong and *Paysour, Jada M., “Panel Method Computational Performance on CM-5 and Cray-YMP”, Boundary Elements Communications, Vol. 6, No. 2, 1995, pp. 51-54

9. Hu, Hong, “Development of a Shock-fitting Field-Panel Method for 3D Transonic Flows”, Computational Mechanics, Vol. 15, No. 4, 1995, pp. 364-371.

Other Professional Activities:

Prof. Hu is currently serving on an international professional journal’s editorial board and academic review board. He served on scientific advisory and organizing committees for and served as session co-chairman in international professional conferences. Prof. Hu frequently reviews papers for professional journals and conferences, as well as research/grant proposals.

Teaching:

Prof. Hu taught various courses at undergraduate and graduate levels. He also taught a few math courses at Hampton University's Virginia Beach campus for several years. The courses he taught most often and enjoyed most, here at Hampton University, are:

Mat 109 / Matv 109 - College Math I

Mat 130 / Matv 130 - Calculus

Mat 330 - Complex Variables

Mat 515 - Functions of a Complex Variable