Department News
New Professor Hyungrok Do Introduction
Professor Do received his bachelor’s in SNU Mechanical and Aerospace engineering in 2002, Masters (2006) and Doctorate (2009) in Stanford Mechanical Engineering. He worked as a researcher in the Product Development 2 team of Hyundai from 2001 to 2004, and as a researcher at Stanford after his doctorate until 2011. He then worked as an assistant professor at the University of Notre Dame’s Mechanical and Aerospace engineering faculty before becoming an assistant professor of SNU Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2015.<?xml:namespace prefix = "o" ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
His main research sector was plasma and turbulence combustion phenomenon, especially the reactive flow, energy changes within the flow and its thermal engineering uses. Recently, he has been participating in the development of hypersonic propulsion and is currently researching on turbulence combustion and boundary control using plasma, and the relation between turbulence and combustion reactions. His long term research plan is to develop a renewable energy source and a heat engine that optimizes usage of the current combustion energy equipment but is also environmentally friendly and highly efficient. His current short term goals are to research on highly efficient fuel reforming through endothermic reactions and the development of bio-fuel, along with the direct/indirect relations between chemical reactions and high frequency turbulence.