Chongam Bio
Chongam Kim is a professor at the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Seoul National University (SNU), Korea. He received his B.S. in supersonic wind tunnel experiment, and M.S. in computational mesh generation from SNU under the guidance of Professor Oh-Hyun Rho. After serving a military duty in 1991, he spent about a year at Korea Supercomputing Center (Currently, KISTI) as a researcher. Ever since, he pursued his career in computational fluid dynamics and scientific computing.
He completed his Ph.D. study in computational fluid dynamics from Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University with Professor Antony Jameson as his advisor. He then worked at the Center for Turbulence Research at Stanford University as a post-doctoral researcher in 1997, and back in Korea as a faculty. Since 1998, he has been a professor at SNU and 86 students have graduated under his thesis guidance. Professor Kim particularly focuses on developing high-fidelity numerical methods in the framework of finite-volume discretization and high-order approximation, and applies them in various engineering fields including aerodynamics, multi-phase flows, hypersonic flows, high-performance in-house codes, design optimization & flow control, biomimetic flapping micro air vehicles. He has published 94 SCI journal papers (163 papers in total) and 704 conference papers, and his major works have been widely acknowledged in journals, including Journal of Computational Physics, AIAA Journal, Computers & Fluids, and Computer Physics Communications.
He served as the president of the Korean Society for Aeronautics and Astronautics (KSASS), the Korean Society for Computational Fluids Engineering (KSCFE), and the Korean Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (KSIAM). For his contributions to the developments in the domestic and international aerospace and CFD community, he received numerous awards from KSASS, KSCFE, KSIAM, and KMS (Korean Mathematical Society). He has been an associate fellow of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) since 2011, and served as a member of the fluid dynamics technical committee and the chair of the fluid dynamics award committee in AIAA. Currently, he is the director of the Reusable Unmanned Space Vehicle research center.