Yuwen Zhang

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Yuwen Zhang
张玉文
Born
Xiaoyi, Shanxi, China
CitizenshipFlag of the United States.svg  United States
Alma mater Xi'an Jiaotong University
University of Connecticut
Known for Phase change heat transfer
AwardsASTFE Fellow (2024)
AAAS Fellow (2015)
ASME Fellow (2007)
ONR Young Investigator Award (2002)
Scientific career
Fields Mechanical Engineering
Institutions University of Missouri
New Mexico State University
University of Connecticut
Wright State University
Xi'an Jiaotong University

Yuwen Zhang is a Chinese American professor of mechanical engineering who is well known for his contributions to phase change heat transfer. He is presently a Curators' Distinguished Professor and Huber and Helen Croft Chair in Engineering in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri.

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Education and career

Yuwen Zhang earned his B.E. degree in thermal turbomachinery, M.E. and D.Eng. degrees in engineering thermophysics from Xi'an Jiaotong University, in 1985, 1988 and 1991, respectively. He taught at Xi'an Jiaotong University from 1991 to 1994 and was a research associate at Wright State University (1994-1995) and University of Connecticut (1995-1996). He received a Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Connecticut in 1998. He was a research scientist at University of Connecticut and a senior engineer at Thermoflow, Inc. before joining the Department of Mechanical Engineering at New Mexico State University as an assistant professor in 2001. He joined the faculty at the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Missouri (MU) in 2003 as an associate professor and became a full professor in 2009. He was awarded a James C. Dowell Professorship in 2012 and served as the Department Chair from 2013 to 2017. He was named a Curators' Distinguished Professor in 2020 [1] and a Huber and Helen Croft Chair in Engineering in 2021.

Technical contributions

Yuwen Zhang's research area is in the field of heat and mass transfer with applications in nanomanufacturing, thermal management, and energy storage and conversion. He has published over 300 journal papers and more than 180 conference publications at national and international conferences. He has developed pioneer models for a latent heat thermal energy storage system, [2] as well as multiscale, multiphysics models on additive manufacturing (AM), including selective laser sintering (SLS) [3] and laser chemical vapor deposition/infiltration (LCVD/LCVI). [4] [5] He is the first to develop fundamental models of fluid flow and heat transfer in the oscillating heat pipes, [6] [7] which is a heat transfer device that can be used in thermal management of electronic devices and energy systems. He carried out theoretical studies on femtosecond laser interaction with metal and biological materials from molecular scales to system levels, [8] [9] and solved inverse heat transfer problems for the determination of the heating condition and/or temperature-dependent macro and micro thermophysical properties under uncertainty. [10] He also investigated the mechanism of heat transfer enhancement in nanofluids, which are stable colloidal suspensions of solid nanomaterials with sizes typically on the order of 1-100 nm in the base fluid, via molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. [11] Thermal management and temperature uniformity improvement of Li-ion batteries using external and internal cooling methods were also systematically studied by utilizing pin fin heat-sinks and metal/non-metal foams, as well as using electrolyte flow inside the embedded microchannels in the porous electrodes as a novel internal cooling technique. [12] [13]

Professional services

Yuwen Zhang is the Editor-in-Chief Emeritus for Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer (FHMT), past Associate Editor for ASME Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer (2017-2023), as well as an editorial board member for several other journals. As a Fellow of ASME, he was the Chair (2012-2014) and the Vice-Chair (2009-2012) of the K-15 Committee on Transport Phenomena in Manufacturing and Materials Processing of the ASME Heat Transfer Division. As an Associate Fellow of AIAA, he was a Member of the AIAA Thermophysics Technical Committee (2008–2011). He is also a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the American Society of Thermal and Fluids Engineers (ASTFE) and a member of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). In these capacities, he has served as congress, track, and session chair for numerous national and international conferences in engineering.

Honors and awards

Books

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References

  1. ↑ Zhang Named Curators’ Distinguished Professor
  2. ↑ Zhang, Y., and Faghri, A., 1996, “Heat Transfer Enhancement in Latent Heat Thermal Energy Storage System by Using the Internally Finned Tube,” Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer, 39(15), pp. 3165-3173.
  3. ↑ Zhou, J., Zhang, Y., and Chen, J.K., 2009, “Numerical Simulation of Laser Irradiation to a Randomly Packed Bimodal Powder Bed,” Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer, 52(13-14), pp. 3137-3146.
  4. ↑ Zhang, Y., and Faghri, A., 2000, “Thermal Modeling of Selective Area Laser Deposition of Titanium Nitride on a Finite Slab with Stationary and Moving Laser Beams,” Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer, 43(20), pp. 3835-3846.
  5. ↑ Zhang, Y., 2006, “Nonequilibrium Modeling of Heat Transfer in a Gas-Saturated Powder Layer Subject to a Short-Pulsed Heat Source,” Numer. Heat Transfer, Part A, 50(6), pp. 509-524.
  6. ↑ Zhang, Y., and Faghri, A., 2002, “Heat Transfer in a Pulsating Heat Pipe with Open End,” Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer, 45(4), pp. 755-764.
  7. ↑ Zhang, Y., and Faghri, A., 2003, “Oscillatory Flow in Pulsating Heat Pipes with Arbitrary Numbers of Turns,” J. Thermophys. Heat Transfer, 17(3), pp. 340-347.
  8. ↑ Zhang, Y., and Chen, J.K., 2007, “Melting and Resolidification of Gold Film Irradiated by Nano- to Femtosecond Lasers,” Appl. Phys. A-Mater., 88(2), pp. 289-297.
  9. ↑ Afrin, N., Zhou, J., Zhang, Y., Tzou, D.Y., and J., Chen, J.K., 2012, “Numerical Simulation of Thermal Damage to Living Biological Tissues Induced by Laser Irradiation based on a Generalized Dual Phase Lag Model,” Numer. Heat Transfer, Part A, 61(7), pp. 483-501.
  10. ↑ Afrin, N., Zhang, Y., and Chen, J.K., 2016, “Uncertainty Analysis of Melting and Resolidification of Gold Film Irradiated by Nano- to Femtosecond Lasers Using Stochastic Method,” J. Heat Transfer, 138(6), p. 062301
  11. ↑ Li, L., Zhang, Y., Ma, H. B., and Yang, M., 2008, “An Investigation of Molecular Layering at the Liquid-Solid Interface in Nanofluids by Molecular Dynamics Simulation,” Phys. Lett. A, 372(25), pp. 4541–4544.
  12. ↑ Mohammadian, S.K., and Zhang, Y., 2015, “Thermal Management Optimization of an Air-Cooled Li-ion Battery Module Using Pin-Fin Heat Sinks for Hybrid Electric Vehicles,” J. Power Sources, 273, pp. 431-439.
  13. ↑ Mohammadian, S.K., and Zhang, Y., 2018, “Improving Wettability and Preventing Li-Ion Batteries from Thermal Runaway Using Microchannels,” Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer, 118, pp. 911-918.
  14. ↑ AFTFE Fellowship
  15. ↑ University of Missouri Coulter Translational Partnership Program
  16. ↑ 2015 AAAS Fellows Recognized for Contributions to Advancing Science.
  17. ↑ Mechanical and aerospace engineering professor receives Chancellor’s Award
  18. ↑ ASME Fellows.
  19. ↑ AIAA Associate Fellows Roster
  20. ↑ ONR Announces Young Investigator Program Awards, Office of Naval Research, February 20, 2002.
  21. ↑ Faghri, A., and Zhang, Y., 2020, Fundamentals of Multiphase Heat Transfer and Flow, ISBN   978-3-030-22136-2, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
  22. ↑ Zhang, Y., ed., 2018, Heat Pipes: Design, Applications and Technology, ISBN   978-1-53613-908-2, Nova Science Publishers, Inc., Hauppauge, NY.
  23. ↑ Zhang, Y., and He, Y.L., eds., 2016, Multiscale Thermal Transport in Energy Systems, ISBN   978-1-63485-692-8, Nova Science Publishers, Inc., Hauppauge, NY.
  24. ↑ Zhang, Y., ed., 2013, Femtosecond Lasers: New Research, ISBN   978-1-62948-059-6, Nova Science Publishers, Inc., Hauppauge, NY.
  25. ↑ Zhang, Y., ed., 2013, Nanofluids: Research, Development and Applications, ISBN   978-1-62618-165-6, Nova Science Publishers, Inc., Hauppauge, NY.
  26. ↑ Faghri, A., Zhang, Y., and Howell, J., 2010, Advanced Heat and Mass Transfer, ISBN   978-0-9842760-0-4, Global Digital Press, Columbia, MO. Reviews:
  27. ↑ Faghri, A., and Zhang, Y., 2006, Transport Phenomena in Multiphase Systems, ISBN   978-0-12-370610-2, Elsevier, Burlington, MA. Reviews:
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