Rate My Professor John Kim

Kim's research specializations include numerical simulation of transitional and turbulent flows, physics and control of turbulence and heat transfer, and numerical algorithms for computational physics. As director of the UCLA Turbulence Research Group, his team employs in-house computational fluid dynamics codes to investigate incompressible and compressible turbulent flows, such as boundary-layer transitions, drag reduction using superhydrophobic surfaces, and roughness effects. Key publications include the landmark paper 'Turbulence statistics in fully developed channel flow at low Reynolds number' (Kim, Moin, and Moser, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 1987), which has garnered over 7,000 citations, and other highly influential works on turbulence simulation with more than 41,000 total citations on Google Scholar. His contributions have had profound impact, evidenced by his election to the National Academy of Engineering in 2009 for 'development of direct numerical simulation and seminal contributions to the physics and control of turbulent flows.' Major awards also encompass the Ho-Am Prize in Engineering (2002), Otto Laporte Award from the American Physical Society (2001), NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal (1985), H. Julian Allen Award from NASA, and fellowships from the AIAA and APS. Kim served as Co-Editor-in-Chief of Physics of Fluids from 1998 to 2015.