Current Chinese Science

Dr. Xiande Fang is a distinguished professor at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA), China, serving as a Vice Chairman of Academic Committee, MIIT Key Laboratory of Aircraft Environment Control and Life Support (AECLS), and Chairman of Professional Committee, AECLS and Building Environment and Energy Engineering. He received his Ph.D. from University of Science and Technology of China, M. Sci. from Tsinghua University, and B. Eng. from NUAA. His is an Associate Editor, Aerospace Science and Technology, and the Editor- in-Chief, International Journal of Thermofluid Science and Technology. His research area is thermofluids and its applications to various industrial sectors. He has published over 200 papers and 4 books/book chapters.

Xianfeng Yang is an associate professor in the School of Aeronautic Science and Engineering, Beihang University. He received his B.S. degree from Northwestern Polytechnical University and Ph.D. degree from Beihang University in China. In 2018, he was a research assistant at the University of Manchester, UK. In 2019, he worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Beihang University, and in 2020, he worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Louisville, USA. Then in 2021, he became an associate professor in Beihang University. His research interests include Aircraft Crashworthiness, Mechanics of materials, Solid mechanics, Impact dynamic, Energy absorption of materials and structures.

Dr. Shu Chang has been a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore since 2006. He completed his Bachelors in Engineering from the Department of Aerodynamics, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China, Masters from the Department of Aerodynamics, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China and a Ph.D. from the Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Glasgow, U.K in 1988. Dr. Chang's research interests include Development of efficient numerical methods to solve partial differential equations, Computational fluid dynamics, Lattice Boltzmann method and its applications, Lattice Boltzmann flux solvers and gas kinetic flux solvers and their applications, numerical study of moving boundary flows and multiphase flows. He also made efforts to develop some efficient models for simulation of multiphase flows and flows around moving boundaries. So far, he has authored 4 monographs and published more than 350 articles in the international refereed journals.

Prof. Qijun Zhao is a professor and vice-chairman at the College of Aerospace Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics. His research interests include Helicopter Rotors; Rotary Wing Aircraft; Fuselages, Blade-Vortex Interaction; Aeroacoustics; Noise Prediction, compound helicopters, airfoils. Dr. Zhao's main subject areas are Engineering Computer Science Mathematics Physics and Astronomy Earth and Planetary Sciences.

Lei Qiu, PhD, Humboldt Research Fellow, is currently a professor at the State Key Lab of Mechanics and Control of Mechanical Structures, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA). He received his B.S. and Ph.D. degree from NUAA. From 2012 to 2014, he was a lecturer at the State Key Lab of Mechanics and Control of Mechanical Structures of NUAA, and then in 2014, he became an associate professor. In 2017, he was promoted to professor as an exception in NUAA. In 2015, he was elected a Hong Kong Scholars Research fellow at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China. His current research interests include structural prognosis and health management, structural health monitoring (SHM), signal processing, aircraft smart skin, smart sensor and system integration. He has published over 110 journal papers (more than 60 papers are included by SCI) and over 50 international conference papers.

Dr. Yihua Cao is a Professor at Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China. In 1995, he was selected as DAAD-K.C. Wong Research Fellow. He studied from 1996 to 1997 at the Institute of Flight Mechanics of Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany. From July 2007 to Oct 2007, in July and Aug of 2008, and from June 2012 to Aug 2012 he worked in the Faculty of Engineering as a special visiting professor of Monash University, Australia. From July 2010 to Nov 2010, he was a senior visiting fellow of University of California at Davis, USA. His research interests include fluid mechanics, aerodynamics, fluid/solid coupling, aeroelasticity, flight dynamics and flight control, aircraft airworthiness. He is the author of more than 100 scientific papers in many leading journals.

Dr. Tongbeum Kim is a Professor in the College of Aerospace Engineering at the Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA), Nanjing, PR China whose research focuses on the growing concerns over sustainability, primarily through the thermal management of various energy systems including high pressure gas-turbines and sustainable/renewable energy generation and storage systems. Specific research interests cover (a) aerodynamics & heat transfer in turbomachinery, (b) convection & conduction in porous media, (c) thermal management of sustainable/renewable energy generation and storage systems, and (c) thermal management of Li-Ion batteries for long range electric vehicles. Dr. Kim obtained a PhD in Aerothermal Engineering from Whittle Laboratory at the University of Cambridge, UK after an MSc in Aerodynamics from the Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, and received numerous awards and recognition including a HTFS Best Paper Award from the 8 th UK National Heat Transfer Conference (2003), an Outstanding Reviewer by the ASME Journal of Heat Transfer (2013), and a University Research Commercialization Support Initiative Award from the Innovation Hub, Gauteng Province of South Africa (2015).