Professor Sau-Hai (Harvey) Lam 
Edwin Wilsey
'04 Professor Emeritus of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE)
School of Engineering
and Applied Science (SEAS)
Research
interests include fluid mechanics, plasmas, chemical kinetics, Lagrangian
dynamics, nonlinear control theory, and singular perturbation methodologies.
¥ Email address: lam@princeton.edu.
¥ Office phone: 609-258-5133
¥ Departmental
fax phone: 609-258-6109
¥ Regular mail
address:
D302-D
Engineering Quad
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544
Honors:
Member,
National
Academy of Engineering, 2006.
Fellow,
American
Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1996.
Princeton University Engineering Council Teaching
Award, 1993.
Senior
National
Science Foundation Post Doctoral Fellow, 1966-1967.
Selected
Publications
¥ Continuum
Theory of Electrostatic Probes, (paper,
C. H. Su and S. H. Lam), 1963.
¥ A General
Theory for the Flow of Weakly Ionized Gases (paper,
Citation Classic, 1983) 1964.
¥ Unified Theory
for the Langmuir Probe in a Collisionless Plasma, (paper), 1965.
¥ Principles
of Fluid Mechanics, Li and Lam, Addison Wesley, 1966. (iPad only edition
available via "Palisades Press" app in iPad App Store)
¥ An Analytical
Theory of Vibrational Relaxation for Anharmonic Molecules Under Strongly Pumped
Conditions (paper) 1977.
¥ Singular
Perturbation Problems with Nearly Resonant Operators (paper) 1977.
¥ An Analytical
Model of Thermionic Discharges, (paper,
J. L. Lawless and S. H. Lam), 1985.
¥ Conventional
Asymptotics and Computational Singular Perturbation for Simplified Kinetics
Modeling (abstract and paper) 1991.
¥ On the RNG
Theory of Turbulence (abstract and paper) 1992.
¥ A Study of
Homogeneous Methanol Oxidation Kinetics Using CSP, (paper), Goussis and Lam, 1992.
¥ Using CSP to
Understand Complex Chemical Kinetics (abstract
and paper) 1993.
¥ The CSP Method
for Simplifying Kinetics (abstract and paper), Lam and Goussis, 1994.
¥ Eigenfunctions
of Linearized Unsteady Boundary Layer Equations (abstract
and paper) 1994.
¥ Reduced
Chemistry Modeling and Sensitivity Analysis (abstract
and paper) 1995.
¥ On Lagrangian
Dynamics and Its Control Formulation
(abstract and paper) 1998.
¥ A Robust
Universal Controller (abstract and paper) 1997.
¥ Quasi-Steady
Approximation and Adaptive Nonlinear Control (abstract
and paper) 1998.
¥ A New Approach
to Adaptive Nonlinear Controls (abstract
and paper) 1998
¥ Universal
Control Law and Rate Feedbacks (abstract
and paper) 1999.
¥ A Robust
Controller for Scalar, Autonomous Optimal Control Problems (abstract
and paper) 1999.
¥ Control of
Nonlinear Systems with Delays and Hysteresis (abstract
and paper) 1999.
¥ Noise Tolerance
of the Universal Dynamic Controller (abstract and paper) 2000.
¥ Use of
Surrogate Pulse-Response Matrix in the UDCL (abstract
and paper). 2001.
¥ On Decoupling
of Shvab-Zel'dovich Variables in the Presence of Diffusion (abstract
and paper), Lam and Bellan, Combustion and Flame, Vol. 132, No. 4,
pp. 691-696, 2003.
¥ Multicomponent
Diffusion Revisited (abstract and paper), Physics
of Fluids,
Vol. 18, 073101, July, 2006.
¥ Reduced
Chemistry-Diffusion Coupling (paper),
Combustion
Science and Technology, 179 (4), 2007.
¥ Good Enough
Tools for Global Warming Policy Making (paper, Socolow and Lam), in Energy
for the Future, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Series A: Mathematical,
Physical & Engineering Sciences, 365, 897-934, 2007.
¥ Model Reduction
with Special CSP Data (paper),
accepted by Combustion
and Flame, to appear in 2013.
Unpublished
works
¥ Predicting the
Long Term Future of Atmospheric CO2 (abstract and notes) 1998.
¥ Policy Options
for Global Warming (notes). 2000.
¥ Notes on
Classical Sonic Boom Theory (notes).
2001.
¥ Residence Time
of Atmospheric CO2 (essay). 2003.
¥ Science and
Policy on Global Warming (Powerpoint).
2006.
¥ More
Inconvenient Truths (essay). 2007.
¥ Tools for
global warming policymakers (Powerpoint).
2007.
¥ The logarithmic
response and climate sensitivity of CO2 (paper) 2007.
¥ Singular
Perturbation with variable fast time scales (paper and powerpoint) 2007.
¥ Best Effort
Global Warming Trajecotries (notes and Mathematica Demonstration) 2007.
¥ Reacting flows
and control theory, (notes and powerpoint) 2008.
¥ Inconvenient
Issues, (notes) 2008.
¥ The earth's
outward radiation window and equilibrium climate sensitivity (paper; Lam and Royce), 2008.
¥ The Earth's
equilibrium climate sensitivity and thermal inertia (paper, Royce and Lam), 2010.
Slides
and Pictures of Symposium on New Direction,
April
20-21, 2001.
¥ 1997
Fall MAE 567 (Plasma notes)
¥ 1998
Spring MAE 222 Course Web page.
¥ 1998 Fall MAE 533 Course Web
page.
¥ 1999
Spring MAE 224 Course Web page.
¥ 1999
Spring MAE 306 Course Web page.
¥ 1999
Fall MAE 305 Course Web page.
¥ 2003-4
Winter Quarter ME351B Course Webpage, Viscous Flow, Stanford University.
¥ 2004-5
Winter Quarter ME451C Course Webpage, Advanced Fluid
Mechanics, Stanford University.