Chiang C. Mei

Chiang Chung "CC" Mei (Chinese: 梅強中; born 4 April 1935) is a Taiwanese-American physicist who is the Ford Professor of Engineering Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is known for his contributions in fluid mechanics with applications to civil, environmental, and coastal engineering.

Chiang C. Mei
Born	(1935-04-04) 4 April 1935 (age 90)
Alma mater	National Taiwan University (BS) Stanford University (MS) California Institute of Technology (PhD)
Awards	Theodore von Karman Medal (2007)
Scientific career
Fields	Fluid mechanics
Institutions	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Doctoral advisor	Theodore Y. Wu

Education

Mei received his B.S. (1955) from National Taiwan University, M.S. (1958) from Stanford University, and Ph.D. (1963) from California Institute of Technology.

Career

He has been an Associate Editor of the Journal of Fluid Mechanics. He received the Moffatt–Nichol Award in 1992 and the International Coastal Engineering Award in 1995, both from the American Society of Civil Engineers.^[1] He was awarded the Theodore von Karman Medal in 2007.

The 24th International Workshop on Water Waves and Floating Bodies of 2009 is dedicated to Mei on the occasion of his retirement.^[2] In the same year, the "C.C. Mei Symposium on Wave Mechanics and Hydrodynamics" was organised at the International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering (OMAE).^[3]

Books

• Chiang C. Mei (1989). The Applied Dynamics of Ocean Surface Waves. Singapore: World Scientific. ISBN 9971-5-0773-0.
• Chiang C. Mei (1997). Mathematical Analysis in Engineering. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-58798-0.
• Chiang C. Mei; Michael Stiassnie; Dick K.-P. Yue (2005). Theory and Applications of Ocean Surface Waves – Part 1, Linear Aspects; Part 2, Nonlinear Aspects. World Scientific Publishers. ISBN 981-238-8931.
• Chiang C. Mei; Bogdan Vernescu (2010). Homogenization Methods for Multiscale Mechanics. World Scientific Publishers. ISBN 978-981-428244-4.