Nanyang Technology University

Academic Profile
Assoc Prof Yeo Joon Hock 

Associate Professor 
Division of Thermal and Fluids Engineering 
School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering 
College of Engineering 



Email: MJHYEO@ntu.edu.sg
Phone: (+65)6790 5500 
Office: N3-02b-57 
Education
  • DIC PhD University of London, Imperial Coll. 1990
  • BSc(Hons) University of Strathclyde 1984
Biography
Prof Yeo Joon Hock, Tony is currently in the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. he received his Bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering from Strathclyde University, Scotland and PhD degree from Imperial College, University of London. His research interests includes artificial heart valve, cardiovascular engineering, innovation in medical devices. He has done significant work in the area of heart valve engineering publishing more than 30 top quality conference and international papers. He is also awarded 2 US Patents and one pending in heart valve.
Research Interests
Prof Yeo research interest is mainly in Cardiovascular Engineering including : heart valves engineering, arterial pusle waveform analysis, pulse waveform analysis,
Research Grant
  • Academic Research Fund Tier 2 (2007-) [by MOE]
  • National Medical Research Council (2011-) [by National Medical Research Council (NMRC)]
Current Projects
  • An Expanded Polytetrafluoroethylene Trileaflet Valve for Ventricular Outflow Tract
  • Flowfield investigation of a bi-leaflet heart valve
  • Influence infrared frequency for glucose absorption
  • Influence infrared frequency for glucose absorption (phase 2)
  • Non-invasive blood glucose system
  • Stentless Pericardial Aortic Valves with Single Point Attached Commissures: Consequences of Asymmetric Implantation on Leaflet Stress Distribution, Hemodynamics and Durability
Selected Publications
  • E. T. Ooi, S. Rajendran, J. H. Yeo. (2007). Extension of unsymmetric finite elements US-QUAD8 and US-HEXA20 for geometric nonlinear analyses. Engineering Computations, 24(4), 407-431.
  • E. T. Ooi, S. Rajendran, J. H. Yeo, B. R. Zhang. (2007). A mesh distortion tolerant 8-node solid element based on the partition of unity method with inter-element compatibility and completeness properties. Finite Elements in Analysis and Design, 43(10), 771-787.
  • S. Rajendran, E. T. Ooi, J. H. Yeo. (2007). Mesh-distortion immunity assessment of QUAD8 elements by strong-form patch tests. Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering, 23(2), 157-168.
  • G.H. Xia, Zhao Y., Yeo J.H., X. Lv. (2006). A 3D Implicit Unstructured-grid Finite Volume Method for Structural Dynamics. Computational Mechanics, .
  • G.H. Xia, Zhao Y., Yeo J.H. (2005). Numerical Simulation of 3D Fluid-Structure Interaction Using An Immersed Membrane Method. 1994 IT Usage Survey, 19(28-29).
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