Contact Information:

Department of Chemical Engineering

2A01A, Swearingen Engineering Center

University of South Carolina

E-mail: chen25@engr.sc.edu

Office: (803) 777-0203

Me on the right!

My home in Fuzhou University, China

Education:

Ph.D. (2005) University of South Carolina, USA

M. E. (1999) Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences

B. E.  (1996) Xi'an Jiaotong University, China

Memberships:

American Society of Mechanical Engineers      

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

Publications:

1. Chen Xiaoming, T. D. Papathanasiou. 2005. "Understanding the scatter in the permeability of random fiber arrays: A statistical correlation in terms of mean inter-fiber spacing". (submitted to Physics of Fluids.)

2. Chen Xiaoming, T. D. Papathanasiou. 2004. "On the Variability of the Kozeny Constant for Saturated Flow across Unidirectional Disordered Fiber Arrays". Composite Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing. (in press)

3. Chen Xiaoming, T. D. Papathanasiou. 2004. "Interface Stress Distribution in Transversely Loaded Continuous Composites: Parallel Computation in Multi-fiber RVEs Using the Boundary Element Method". Composite Science and Technology. 64: 1104-1114.

4. Eric Juhlin, Xiaoming Chen, T. D. Papathanasiou. 2002. "On the Effects of Fiber Length and Spatial Distribution on the Stiffness of Short-fiber-reinforced Composites". Polymer & Polymer Composites. 10: 205-210.

5. Yang Y S, Tong W H, Chen X M. 2003. "Transient Heat Transfer Model for Rapid Solidification of Metals". Acta Metallurgica Sinica. 39(3): 249-253.

6. Tong W H, Yang Y S, Zhu S X, Chen X M, Hu Z Q, Hui X D. 2002. "Non-Fourier Modeling of Surface Transient Melting and Solidification for Binary Alloys". Acta Metallurgica Sinica. 38(12): 1233-1237.

7. Tong W H, Yang Y S, Zhu S X, Hui X D, Chen X M, Y L. 2002. "Measurement in Transient Resistance of Metal Films during Laser Pulse Heating". Acta Metallurgica Sinica. 37(11): 1213-1216.

8. T. D. Papathanasiou, Xiaoming Chen. 2004. "Development of Permeability Models for Saturated Fluid Flow across Random and Aggregated Fiber Arrays". 7th International Conference on Flow Processes in Composite Materials, Delaware, USA. PP. 387-391 (invited talk).

9. Chen Xiaoming, T. D. Papathanasiou. 2003. "A Computational Study of Interfacial Stress Distribution in Unidirectional Composites and Its Use in Prediction of Brittle Failure". Proceedings of IMECE'03. IMECE2003-55046.