ME Graduate Student Wins 2014 SNAME Honor Prize
Mechanical Engineering graduate student Lu Wang presented a paper at the NorCal-SNAME Meeting (March 19, 2014) on his research efforts on finding the shape of a planing form that can make no trailing waves at certain speed, a Zero Wave Resistance (ZWR) condition. Wang's work shows the physical relevance that high-speed planing surface may glide "effortless" on water with low drag.
Wang's student paper won him the Society of Naval Architects & Marine Engineers' (SNAME) Graduate Paper Honor Prize. Wang accepted the award, with a cash prize of $500, at the annual meeting of SNAME in Houston on October 24, 2014.
Wang, a Ph.D. student in ME Professor Ronald W. Yeung's Computational Marine Mechanics Laboratory (CMML), works on high-precision computational methods for wavy flows with viscosity. Wang was the 2011 Department-Citation recipient of the ME BS Program. His ZWR work was recently published in the Journal of Engineering Mathematics.
