Weijia Kuang
JCET Fellow

JCET Research Group:

Heliospheric and Solar Systems Divisions

GSFC Code:

698.0

Mailing Address:

Solar Systems Physics Division
Building 33, Room F324
NASA GSFC, Code 698.0
Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA

Phone:

(301) 614-6108

Fax:

(301) 614-6099

Email:

weijia.kuang-1@nasa.gov

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Biography:

Dr. Weijia Kuang received his B.Sc. degree in space engineering sciences from Changsha Institute of Technology, Peoples Republic of China (PRC) in 1982, the M.Sc. degree in theoretical physics from Wuhan University, PRC in 1985, and the Ph.D. degree in applied mathematics from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1992. He subsequently joined Harvard University as a postdoctoral fellow, and later as a research associate. He joined JCET as a research associate professor in June 1998. His research interests range from nonlinear wave-wave interactions and pattern formations, instabilities in magnetohydrodynamic systems, to general computational geophysical fluid dynamics. His main research activities are focused on studying dynamic processes in the deep interior of the Earth, in particular the nonlinear convective flow in the Earth's outer core and generation of the geomagnetic field. He has developed one of the first two working dynamo models (Kuang- Bloxham model) to simulate three-dimensional, fully nonlinear core flow. He has more than 20 peer-reviewed papers published, with the most recent on application of geodynamo modeling to geopotential studies.