Professor Sau-Hai (Harvey) Lam

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:

D226 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.
• 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.

• 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 likely range of climate sensitivity (paper, Royce and Lam), 2009.

• 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.