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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Korea
2026

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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
65
Citations
19519
World Ranking
507
National Ranking
8

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Korea Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Korea Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Korea Leader Award
  • 2010 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For his contributions to the fundamental physics and control of turbulent boundary layers and bluffbody flows through numerical simulations and laboratory experiments

Overview

Haecheon Choi is a researcher affiliated with Seoul National University in South Korea, specializing in engineering with a focus on fluid dynamics and turbulent flows. Their extensive body of work spans multiple subfields, including computational mechanics, aerospace engineering, environmental engineering, mechanical engineering, and cardiology and cardiovascular medicine.

The primary areas of study in their research cover:

  • Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows
  • Fluid Dynamics and Vibration Analysis
  • Wind and Air Flow Studies
  • Biomimetic Flight and Propulsion Mechanisms
  • Aerodynamics and Fluid Dynamics Research
  • Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer
  • Fluid Dynamics and Mixing

Choi has contributed significantly to journals prominently focused on fluid mechanics and related topics. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • Physics of Fluids
  • Computers & Fluids
  • Experiments in Fluids
  • Journal of Biomechanics

Representative recent papers authored or coauthored by Haecheon Choi include:

  • Toward neural-network-based large eddy simulation: application to turbulent channel flow, 2021, Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • Machine-learning-based feedback control for drag reduction in a turbulent channel flow, 2020, Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • Drag reduction on a three-dimensional model vehicle using a wire-to-plate DBD plasma actuator, 2020, Experiments in Fluids
  • Modification of flow behind a circular cylinder by steady and time-periodic blowing, 2021, Physics of Fluids
  • Large eddy simulation of flow over a circular cylinder with a neural-network-based subgrid-scale model, 2024, Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Their research collaborations often involve a consistent group of coauthors, including:

  • Jong Hwan Park
  • Chonghyuk Cho
  • Jonghwan Park
  • Sehyeong Oh
  • Ingu Lee

Haecheon Choi was recognized with the distinction of Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2010 for contributions related to the physics and control of turbulent boundary layers and bluff-body flows based on numerical and experimental research.

Best Publications

  • An immersed-boundary finite-volume method for simulations of flow in complex geometries

    Jungwoo Kim;Dongjoo Kim;Haecheon Choi

  • Control of Flow Over a Bluff Body

    Haecheon Choi;Woo Pyung Jeon;Jinsung Kim

  • Active turbulence control for drag reduction in wall-bounded flows

    Haecheon Choi;Parviz Moin;John Kim

  • Direct numerical simulation of turbulent flow over riblets

    Haecheon Choi;Parviz Moin;John Kim

  • Grid-point requirements for large eddy simulation: Chapman’s estimates revisited

    Haecheon Choi;Parviz Moin

  • Effects of the Computational Time Step on Numerical Solutions of Turbulent Flow

    Haecheon Choi;Parviz Moin

  • Numerical solutions of flow past a circular cylinder at Reynolds numbers up to 160

    Jeong Young Park;Ki Young Kwon;Hae Cheon Choi

  • Control of laminar vortex shedding behind a circular cylinder using splitter plates

    Kiyoung Kwon;Haecheon Choi

  • Laminar flow past a rotating circular cylinder

    Sangmo Kang;Haecheon Choi;Sangsan Lee

  • Drag reduction by polymer additives in a turbulent channel flow

    Taegee Min;Jung Yul Yoo;Haecheon Choi;Daniel D. Joseph

  • Direct numerical simulation of turbulent supercritical flows with heat transfer

    Joong Hun Bae;Jung Yul Yoo;Haecheon Choi

  • Feedback control for unsteady flow and its application to the stochastic Burgers equation

    Haecheon Choi;Roger Temam;Parviz Moin;John Kim

  • Mechanism of drag reduction by dimples on a sphere

    Jin Choi;Woo-Pyung Jeon;Haecheon Choi

  • Suboptimal control of turbulent channel flow for drag reduction

    Changhoon Lee;John Kim;Haecheon Choi

  • A Second-Order Time-Accurate Finite Volume Method for Unsteady Incompressible Flow on Hybrid Unstructured Grids

    Dongjoo Kim;Haecheon Choi

  • On the space‐time characteristics of wall‐pressure fluctuations

    Haecheon Choi;Parviz Moin

  • Immersed boundary method for flow around an arbitrarily moving body

    Dokyun Kim;Haecheon Choi

  • Distributed forcing of flow over a circular cylinder

    Jinsung Kim;Haecheon Choi

  • On the relation of near‐wall streamwise vortices to wall skin friction in turbulent boundary layers

    Arthur G. Kravchenko;Haecheon Choi;Parviz Moin

  • An Immersed-Boundary Finite-Volume Method for Simulation of Heat Transfer in Complex Geometries

    Jungwoo Kim;Haecheon Choi

Frequent Co-Authors

Parviz Moin
Parviz Moin Stanford University
John Kim
John Kim University of California, Los Angeles
Jeong Young Park
Jeong Young Park Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Roger Temam
Roger Temam Indiana University
Young-Hak Kim
Young-Hak Kim Asan Medical Center
Daniel D. Joseph
Daniel D. Joseph University of Minnesota
Sung-Hoon Ahn
Sung-Hoon Ahn Seoul National University
Changhoon Lee
Changhoon Lee Yonsei University
Michael Hinze
Michael Hinze University of Koblenz and Landau
Karl Kunisch
Karl Kunisch University of Graz

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