Qingyan Chen, Ph.D.
Qingyan Chen is a professor, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. His research focuses on detailed energy and indoor environmental analyses of buildings and spaces in buildings. He contributed to the development of appropriate computational fluid dynamic models for the prediction of variations in air temperature, air velocity, turbulence intensity and pollution concentrations in the occupied zones of spaces. In 1985, he oversaw the first research that combined computational fluid dynamics with building energy analysis programs. Considered an expert in indoor air quality, Chen is the technical leader of the Federal Aviation Administration’s Air Transportation Center of Excellence for Airliner Cabin Environment Research, which seeks to solve air quality and security problems in commercial aircraft cabins.