Jiazhong Zhang

Biography

1) Sept. 1986-Jul. 1990 B.Sc., Jul. 1990 Xi’an Jiaotong University 2) Sept. 1990-Jun. 1993 M.Sc., Jun. 1993 Xi’an Jiaotong University 3) Sept. 1994-Dec. 1997 Doctor degree candidate, Doctor degree was granted on December 25, 1997 School of Architectural Engineering and Mechanics Xi’an Jiaotong University 4) Oct. 1998-Feb. 2001 Postdoc. Research fellow Eindhoven University of Technology 5) Feb. 2001-Present Professor at Xi’an Jiaotong University

Research Interest

Nonlinear aeroelastic stability and flow control by the morphing structure, turbo-machinery or fluid machinery with low Reynolds number by smart structures; Lagrangian description for unsteady flow; Momentum transfer; Lobe dynamics; Targeted energy transfer; Localization of energy; Resonance energy exchange; Low-velocity wind turbine with local adaptive aeroelastic structures; Energy capture by phase transition; The application of nonlinear dynamics to the drag reduction, lift enhancement, aero-heating, dynamic stall, and the numerical method, active aeroelastic structures; The dynamics in shock wave, plasma, soliton and rarefied gas dynamics for super-sonic flow; Cavity and energy accumulation with cavitation; The dynamics and the reduction of the continuum dynamic system with infinite-dimension or large degree-of-freedom based on the Inertial Manifold theories; Instability, sequence-bifurcation, the spatiotemporal pattern formation for the complex fluid mechanics; Macroscopic quantum phenomena; The nonlinearity and singularity of N-S equation in view of the point of mathematics and the route to turbulence; Nonlinear non-equilibrium atmospheric thermal dynamics; The Lagrangian coherent structure in the fluid flow; Study fluid dynamics on manifolds; Vortex dynamics analysis in Lagrangian frame; Stability and bifurcation in rotor dynamics, and rotordynamics software; Vibration localization or nonlinear dynamics in the system with periodic or symmetric structure; Buckling and post-buckling of thin-walled structure from viewpoint of bifurcation and chaos, and the multiscale numerical simulation for the flow in porous media; Multi-phase flow and cavitation in turbo-pump, Self-organized criticality; Application for nonlinear dynamics: the drag reduction, vibration reduction and sound reduction of moving body over flow by active aeroelastic surfaces or walls.