Clarkson University Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Chunlei Liang has been elected a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). The Fellow grade of membership recognizes exceptional engineering achievements and contributions to the engineering profession and to ASME. Liang is one of only 3,388 Fellows out of 64,428 ASME members.

The ASME Fellowship recognizes Professor Liang’s outstanding contributions to high-order computational methods and large eddy simulation techniques for simulating turbulent flows with moving geometries as well as magnetohydrodynamics for the Sun.

Liang’s research interests include computational fluid dynamics, computational magnetohydrodynamics, and fluid-structure interaction. These research efforts have been supported by the Office of Naval Research, the National Science Foundation, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and the National Center for Atmospheric Research.

In 2012 Liang won an outstanding fluid-structure-interaction technical paper award at the ASME Pressure Vessel and Piping Conference in Toronto. He has been serving as an associate editor of the ASME Journal of Fluids Engineering since 2020, and he began serving as an editorial board member of Progress in Aerospace Sciences, an International Review Journal, in January 2022.

Liang is also an associate fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). He holds a bachelor’s degree in thermal power engineering from Xi'an Jiaotong University, a doctorate from the University of London.