Curriculum Vitæ

Nan-You Lu

Status: Ph.D., Civil Engineering, UT Austin

E-mail: nanyoulu@ntu.edu.tw , Web: https://sites.google.com/site/nanyoulu/

Education

Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin Aug. 2014 - May. 2019

Major: Civil Engineering- Mechanics Uncertainty Simulation and Engineering

Dissertation: Wind Turbine Loads in Thunderstorm Downbursts using Large-Eddy Simulation

Advisor: Dr. Lance Manuel

M.S., National Taiwan University Sep. 2007 - Jun. 2009

Major: Mechanical Engineering- Solid Mechanics

Thesis: Stability Analysis of a Constrained Arch under Concentrated Moments

Advisor: Dr. Chung-Jen Lu

B.S., National Taiwan University Sep. 2003 - Jun. 2007

Major: Mechanical Engineering

Research Experience

Wind Turbine Load Simulation under Thunderstorm Downbursts Aug. 2014- May 2019

- Estimated wind turbine loads using NREL FAST and coded in Fortran to input user winds.

- Ran CFD simulations in Linux system using an in-house large-eddy simulation (LES) model built with MATLAB code to generate wind fields.

- Generated storm-related inflow fields for a wind farm in TACC Stampede2 supercomputer using UNIX shell scripting to manage simulation jobs and process data.

- Analyzed the statistics of wind/load data to investigate the remarkable characteristics using MATLAB.

Stability Analysis of a Constrained Shallow Arch Sep. 2007- Jul. 2009

- Modeled a double-hinged arch under concentrated moments with a constraint plate based on Euler beam theory.

- Developed an original modification of energy method to treat the stability problem taking into account the constraints.

- Constructed a computational system in Mathematica to control numerical convergence and conduct the bifurcation analysis of multiple equilibrium solutions.

- Experimental measurements and correlations with theoretical predictions.

Modal and Response Spectrum Analysis of the Chassis Design for a Rack Server 2010- 2011

- Evaluated the anti-vibration ability of a rack server chassis and managed to improve the I/O rate of running hard disk drives.

- Modal and response spectrum analysis by using ANSYS Workbench.

- Verified design changes by experimental measurements.

Theoretical Study and Experimental Design of Phone Acoustics 2012-2013

- Designed an engineering process to improve the mechanical design for acoustic properties of VoIP deskphone products.

- Constructed fundamental equations to calculate acoustic properties of speaker and microphone.

- Set up the entire measurement system in anechoic room and developed programs to deal with sound signals in Labview.

Work Experience

Seismic Imagining Analyst, CGG Inc. Sep. 2019 - Mar. 2021

- Explored oil and gas reservoirs in Gulf of Mexico by processing 3-D seismic data with cutting-edge

mathematical models for subsurface imaging

- Created frameworks and computational jobs for data migration and implemented in high-performance

computing centers

Mechanical Engineer, Sunonwealth Electric Machine Industrial Co. (SUNON) Jul., 2013 – Aug., 2014

- Mechanical design of DC brushless fans for server and an indoor air exchanger

Senior CAE Engineer, Wistron Corp. Oct., 2010 - May., 2013

- Development of mechanical design technology for large-scale rack servers

- Development of automatic simulation programs