Professor
Phone: +86 27 8754 5526
Email: zliu@hust.edu.cn
Academic Areas: Thermal Engineering
Research Interests: Oxy-fuel Combustion, Flameless Combustion, numeric combustion, CFD-AI
Academic Degrees
PhEng, 2002, School of Energy and Power Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China;
MEng, 1997, State Key Laboratory of Coal Combustion, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
BEng, 1994, Department of Power Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
Professional Experience
Professor (2005-present); School of Energy and Power Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China;
FCT postdoc(2004-2005); Department of Mechanical Engineering, Instituto Superior Technico, Lisboa, Portugal
Associate Professor (2002-2005); School of Energy and Power Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China;
Lecturer (2000-2002); School of Energy and Power Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
Selected Publications
1. A boundary thickening-based direct forcing immersed boundary method for fully resolved simulation of particle-laden flows. J. Computat. Physics; 390(2019):203-231.
2. A unified stochastic particle Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook method for multiscale gas flows[J]. J. Computat. Physics; 400(2020):108972
3. A full spectrum k-distribution based non-gray radiative property model for unburnt char. Proc. Combust. Inst., 37(2019):3081-3089
4. Experimental and numerical investigations on oxy-coal combustion in a 35MW large pilot boiler, Fuel; 187(2017): 315–327
5. Structural subgrid scale model based on wavelet filter for large eddy simulation of particle-laden turbulence. Int. J. Multiphase Flow; 143(2021):103730
Awards
2014 Natural Science Award in China (Second Prize): Meso-scale Theory and Methodology for Multi-Scale Multiphase Reactive Flows based on Discrete Description
2018 Science and Technology Innovation in Hubei Province (1st Prize): Key Technology and Engineering Demonstration of Oxy-fuel Carbon Capture Technology
2003 Natural Science Award in Ministry of Education (1st Prize): New Progress in Meso-scale model for Turbulent Multiphase Reactive Flow
2002 Natural Science Award in Hubei Province (1st Prize): Theory and Numeric Simulation of Mineral Behavior During Pulverized Coal Combustion
Projects
1. National Key Research and Development Project of China：2019YFE0100100, Improvement and Innovation of Industrial Technology of Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage, 2020/01—2021/12
2. National Key Research and Development Project of China：2016YFE0102500, Demonstration and Innovation of Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage, 2016/01—2019/12
3. National Natural Science Foundation of China：51876075, Fully-resolved Direct Numeric Simulation of Suspended Char Oxidation, 2019/01—2022/12
Courses Taught
Fundamental of Gas-Particle Flow
Numeric Combustion
Introduction of Energy and Power Engineering
