Dr Xianyun Wen
Senior Lecturer
Department of Earth and Environment
University of Leeds
United Kingdom
Biography
My research addresses physical and geophysical approaches to the characterization of fluid flow (groundwater, hydrocarbons) and contaminant movement in the subsurface, utilising hydraulic (pumping) and tracer tests, geophysical logging and geoelectrical techniques. Laboratory studies are conducted to characterise fundamental physico-chemical mechanisms underlying field-scale hydrogeological, geotechnical and geophysical responses, and relate geophysical properties with hydrological, petrophysical, geotechnical or geochemical variables. Research funding: NERC, European Commission and private sector.
Research Interest
Aerosols, Particulate Transport, Computational Fluid Dynamics. Xianyun obtained his PhD from the University of Chengdu of science and technologyin Fluid Dynamics (1987). Xianyun has worked on a variety of engineering and industrail mathematical problems related to fluid mechanics and computational fluid dynamics. He has developed several novel CFD codes and has produced his own user-friendly CFD software package for turbulent flows. At present he supervises 2 PhD students, 1 MSc student and over the past few years he has supervised 6 PhD students 6 MSc students and two postdoctoral research fellows. He has published more than 80 research papers in internationally refereed journals. At present Xianyun surpervises on the CFD programme
