Dr. James H. Leylek is the Executive Director of the Clemson University Computational Center for Mobility Systems (CU-CCMS) and a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Clemson University. Dr. Leylek created CU-CCMS which is a very comprehensive, world-class computational center at the new, 252 acre Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research (CU-ICAR) campus in Greenville, SC. CU-CCMS offers a high concentration of outstanding talent possessing unique simulation capabilities in many diverse fields. CU-CCMS houses massive computer infrastructure, developed in partnership with Sun Microsystems, which enables successful resolution of design, optimization, research, and development issues encountered primarily in the automotive as well as in aviation/aerospace, and energy industries. CU-CCMS offers "one-stop" shopping through multiple technical groups ranging from computational aerodynamics to electromagnetism.
Dr. Leylek's primary research approach involves the development and validation of physics based, simple, robust, and economical computational methods with true predictive capabilities. Specific application areas include automotive IC engine intake systems, aerodynamics, and gas turbine heat transfer, film cooling, steady and unsteady axial turbine & compressor flows. As a specialist in computational fluid dynamics and heat transfer, he conducts research in CFD methods development, steady and unsteady turbulence modeling, and complex problems found in gas turbine and automotive applications. He has published, along with his graduate students, over 50 technical papers in archival journals, national and international conferences. Prof. Leylek joined the Clemson University faculty in 1993, after working for GE Aircraft Engines in Cincinnati for over nine years.
Prof. Leylek has won many national and international awards including the ASME Gas Turbine Award, ASME/IGTI Turbomachinery Best Paper Award, Arch T. Colwell Award from the SAE, ASME/CIE Best Paper Award, and the AIAA Outstanding Service Award. He is an active member of ASME/IGTI Heat Transfer and Turbomachinery Committees. His professional society memberships include the ASME, AIAA, SAE and ASEE.
Prof. Leylek received all his degrees from the University of Illinois. He earned his Ph.D. in 1984 in Aeronautical & Astronautical Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His M.S. and B.S. degrees were received in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1979 and 1976, respectively. As an undergraduate and graduate student he worked at the Argonne National Lab and Energy Resources Center, a multi-disciplinary research facility at the University of Illinois at Chicago.