Faculty Profiles

Hyungson "David" Ki
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
  • electrodynamics
  • heat transfer
  • plasmas
Research Biography

Laser materials interaction/processing, laser hybrid manufacturing, laser micromachining, multiphysics & multiphase flow simulation, modeling of plasma processings, fluid-structure interactions (FSI), Lattice Boltzmann method, computational electrodynamics.

Selected Publications
  • H. Li and H. Ki, "Effect of Ionization on the femtosecond laser pulse interaction with silicon," Journal of Applied Physics, vol 100, #104907, (2006). [This article has been selected for the December 2006 issue of Virtual Journal of Ultrafast Science.]
  • H. Li and H. Ki, "Lattice Boltzmann method for weakly-ionized isothermal plasmas," vol 76, #066707, Physical Review E, (2007).
  • H. Li and H. Ki, "Simulation of MHD flows using a hybrid lattice-Boltzmann finite-difference method," Communications in Computational Physics, in press, (2008).
Selected Achievements and Awards
  • Rackham Distinguished Dissertation Award Nominee, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2001