Qian Liao - Associate Professor
Contact Information
Office Address:
EMS E363
3200 North Cramer Street
Milwaukee, WI 53211
Phone: 414-229-4228
Fax: 414-229-6958
Email: liao@uwm.edu
WWW: www.uwm.edu/~liao
Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 784
Department of Civil Engineering and Mechanics
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Milwaukee, WI 53201
Ph.D., Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cornell University, 2004 M.S., Urban and Environmental Science, Peking University, China, 1999
B.S., Hydraulic and Hydropower Engineering, Tsinghua University, China, 1996
Research Interests
Environmental Fluid Mechanics; Quantitative Imaging Based Flow Measurement
Techniques; Turbulent Dispersion and Mixing; Fate and Transport of Chemical and
Biological Constituents in Environmental Flows; Lake Circulation and Dynamics;
Sediment Transport; Numerical Simulation of Environmental Flows.
Selected Publications
- Liao, Q., Cowen, E. A. (2005) "An efficient anti-aliasing spectral continuous window shifting technique for PIV". Experiments in Fluids , vol. 38, no. 2, pp.197-208.
- Liao, Q., Cowen, E. A. (2002) "The information content of a scalar plume -- a plume tracing perspective". Environmental Fluid Mechanics, vol.2., no. 1-2., pp.9-34.
- Cowen, E.A., Chang, K.-A., Liao, Q. (2001) "A single-camera coupled PTV-LIF technique". Experiments in Fluids, vol.31, no. 1., pp.63-73.
- Chang, K.-A., Cowen, E.A., Liao , Q., Zarruk, G.A. (2000) "Simultaneous velocity and concentration fields in a turbulent round jet". Journal of Visualization, vol.3, no.2., frontispiece.