Our congratulations to Prof. P.K. Yeung, who has been elected a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). Prof. Yeung was elected for his research contributions as well as his accomplishments as an educator. He is one of only approximately 3,250 of the ASME's more than 117,000 members to be elected as a Fellow.

Professor Yeung was educated at the University of Hong Kong, and at Cornell University, where he received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering in 1989.  He has been on the faculty of the School of Aerospace Engineering at Georgia Tech since 1992, becoming Full Professor in 2005. 

His primary research interests are in the use of high-resolution direct numerical simulations to study the fundamental behavior of turbulent flows, with a view towards both advancing physical understanding and contributing to advancements in turbulence modeling.  Specific topics have included studies of the fine-scale structure of turbulence, turbulent mixing and turbulence subjected to the effects of solid-body rotation.  Professor Yeung is very active in the high-performance computing and Cyberinfrastructure communities, and a major user of at least 5 national supercomputer centers funded by the National Science Foundation or operated by the Department of Energy's national laboratories.

Professor Yeung is known internationally for conducting some of the largest turbulence simulations worldwide, and is currently beginning an effort to simulate turbulence with as many as 0.5 trillion grid points, using a quarter million CPU cores on a major NSF-funded Petascale computer, for which he has received resource allocations in the hundreds of millions of CPU core hours.

To date, Professor Yeung has published over 65 archival journal articles, which have been cited close to 2300 times in total.  His work has been supported by the Fluid Dynamics and Office of Cyberinfrastructure programs at NSF.   He is also a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

At Georgia Tech, Prof. Yeung also holds a courtesy appointment in the School of Mechanical Engineering, and is an adjunct prefossor in the School of Computational Science and Engineering.  He teaches undergraduate courses in aerodynamics and graduate courses in viscous flow and turbulence.

In the 2013-2014 academic year, he will serve as a Visiting Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.