Alan M. Shih, Ph.D.
Research Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
The University of Alabama at Birmingham
BEC 356C, 1150 Tenth Avenue South
Birmingham, AL 35294
Telephone: (205) 934-8461
Fax: (205) 975-7217
E-mail: ashih@uab.edu
Education
Ph.D.
M.S.
B.S.
Aerospace Engineering, Mississippi State University, Starkville, Mississippi, 1994
Aerospace Engineering, Mississippi State University, Starkville, Mississippi, 1990
Aeronautical Engineering, Tamkang University, Tamsui, Taipei, Taiwan, 1985
Appointments
2008- Present
2002- 2008
1997-2002
1994-1997
1993-1994
Research Professor, Mechanical Engineering, UAB
Research Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, UAB
Research Scientist, National Center for Supercomputing Applications,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Senior Research Scientist, Engineering Sciences, Inc., (Huntsville, AL)
Post Doctoral Fellow, NSF Engineering Research Center
Mississippi State University
Research Areas
Numerical Geometry, Mesh Generation, Computer Graphics, Scientific Visualization, Mixed-Reality
Environment, Parallel Computing, Turbomachinery, and High Performance Computing
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Zhu, S., Kim, J-E, Ma, X., Shih, A., Laud, P.W., Pintar, F., Shen, W., Heymsfield, S.B., and Allison, D.B.,
“Obese Men Have a High Risk of Severe Upper Body Injury Following Motor Vehicle Crashes: Concordance
of Real-World and Computer-Simulated,” PLoS Medicine, 2010, In press.
Ito, Y., Shih, A. M. and Soni, B. K., “Three Dimensional Automatic Local Remeshing for Two or More Hybrid
Meshes,” International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, 2010, In press.
Ito, Y., Shih, A. M. and Soni, B. K., "Hybrid Mesh Generation with Embedded Surfaces Using a Multiple
Marching Direction Approach," International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, DOI: 10.1002/fld.1962,
in press.
Ito, Y., Shih, A. M., Koomullil, R. P., Kasmai, N., Jankun-Kelly, M. and Thompson, D., "Solution Adaptive
Mesh Generation Using Feature-Aligned Embedded Surface Meshes," AIAA Journal, Vol. 47, No. 8, August
2009, pp. 1879-1888, DOI: 10.2514/1.39378.
Ito, Y., Murayama, M., Yamamoto, K., Shih, A. M. and Soni, B. K., "Efficient Computational Fluid Dynamics
Evaluation of Small Device Locations with Automatic Local Remeshing," AIAA Journal, Vol. 47, No. 5, May
2009, pp. 1270-1276, DOI: 10.2514/1.40875.
Ito, Y., Shih, A. M. and Soni, B. K., "Octree-Based Reasonable-Quality Hexahedral Mesh Generation Using a
New Set of Refinement Templates," International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Vol. 77, Issue
13, March 2009, pp. 1809-1833, DOI: 10.1002/nme.2470.
Ito, Y., Shih, A. M., Erukala, A. K., Soni, B. K., Chernikov, A. N., Chrisochoides, N. P. and Nakahashi, K.,
"Parallel Mesh Generation Using an Advancing Front Method," Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, Vol.
75, Issues 5-6, September 2007, pp. 200-209, DOI: 10.1016/j.matcom.2006.12.008.
Ito, Y., Shih, A. M., Soni, B. K. and Nakahashi, K., "Multiple Marching Direction Approach to Generate High
Quality Hybrid Meshes," AIAA Journal, Vol. 45, No. 1, January 2007, pp. 162-167, DOI: 10.2514/1.23260.
Shih, A. M., Yu, T.-Y., Gopalsamy, S., Ito, Y. and Soni, B. K., "Geometry and Mesh Generation for High
Fidelity Computational Simulations Using Non-Uniform Rational B-Spline," Applied Numerical Mathematics,
Vol. 55, Issue 3 , November 2005, pp. 368-381, DOI: 10.1016/j.apnum.2005.04.036.