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Visiting Fellow at Loughborough University
Prof. Zhang has been appointed a Visiting Fellow at Loughborough University’s Institute of Advanced Studies for the 2024-25 academic year.
This prestigious honor underscores Prof. Zhang’s global academic recognition and significant influence in mechanical engineering.
During his fellowship, Prof. Zhang will collaborate with Dr. Lu Tian from Loughborough’s Department of Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering, fostering innovative research and strengthening international academic ties.
This appointment not only celebrates Prof. Zhang’s contributions but also enhances CityU’s reputation as a hub for cutting-edge research. CityU congratulates him on this well-deserved recognition, anticipating further advancements through his work at Loughborough.
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Beijing
April 7-10, 2025
Prof. Zhang was invited to attend the 1st International Symposium on Non-equilibrium Transport Phenomena (NETP) and deliver a talk entitled "Deep Learning for Time-series Data of Complex Combustion Systems".
Xi'an
March 19-21, 2025
Shanshan Ruan, Tao Yang, Haoyu Ding, and Prof. Zhang attended the 12th Asian Joint Conference on Propulsion and Power (AJCPP) with six conference papers.
Shanshan Run gave oral presentations on "Unveiling the Chemical Interaction Between Monomethylhydrazine and Nitric Oxide in MMH/MON-25 Bipropellant Systems: A Theoretical Study" and "Gas-Phase and Liquid-Phase Kinetic Modeling of MMH/NTO Hypergolic Combustion: Phase-Specific Mechanism Construction via Quantum Chemical Computations".
Tao Yang gave oral presentations on "Time-series Learning-based Identification of Dynamical Flames Modes in Turbulent Annular Swirl Combustor" and "Deep Learning-Driven Flame Mode Recognition in Supersonic Combustion: A Novel ResNet-CNN-β-VAE Framework".
Haoyu Ding gave oral presentations on "Effects of Droplet Breakup and On-wedge Trips on the Stability of Liquid-Fueled Oblique Detonation Wave" and "Computational Revelation of Popping Phenomena in Hypergolic Bipropellant Impingement Combustion by a Eulerian-Lagrangian Approach".
HongKong
February 20, 2025
Prof. Zhang invited by Institute of Digital Medicine at CityUHK to give a talk entitled "Deep Learning in Digital Medicine: An Automatic Assessment System for Identifying and Managing Challenging Patients".
The presentation garnered a highly engaged response, with the audience actively and eagerly asking questions.
HongKong
February 09-13, 2025
From February 9 to 13, 2025, the 16th International Conference on Combustion and Energy Utilization (ICCEU16, https://www.icceu16.com/) was successfully held at City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK). The event was well organized and successfully completed all its agendas, earning high praise from participants.
Organized by Prof. Peng Zhang, as the Chair of Local Organizing Committee of the 16th ICCEU, the conference received strong support from the University, the Department of Mechanical Engineering (MNE), and the K.C. Wong Education Foundation (http://www.kcwef.org/).
HongKong
February 10-11, 2025
Dr. Shanshan Ruan and Weiming Xu attended the 16th International Conference on Combustion and Energy Utilization (CityUHK).
Dr. Ruan delivered a talk entitled "Exploring the initial hypergolic reaction mechanism for liquid monomethylhydrazine/nitrogen tetroxide mixtures".
Weiming delivered talks entitled "Stabilization Analysis and Mode Recognition of Kerosene Supersonic Combustion: A Deep Learning Approach Based on Res-CNN-β-VAE" and "Dynamical Mode Recognition of Turbulent Flames in a Swirl-stabilized Annular Combustor by a Time-series Learning Approach".
HongKong
February 10, 2025
Prof. Zhang delivered a talk entitled "Collective Dynamics of Laminar Diffusion Flames in Circular Arrays: Computational Identification and Stuart-Landau Modeling" at the 16th International Conference on Combustion and Energy Utilization (CityUHK).
Shenzhen
December 11, 2024
Prof. Zhang was invited by Prof. Lei Zhou to deliver a talk entitled "Dimension Reduction and Mode Recogpition for Timeseries Data of Complex Combustion Systems" at School of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen).
HongKong
December 10, 2024
We are glad to invite Prof. Chaojun Wang from the School of Mechanical, Electronic and Control Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University to deliver a M.E. Seminar entitled "Modelling of Radiative Heat Transfer in Combustion Processes".
HongKong
October 28, 2024
Congratulations to Tao Yang on successfully defending his PhD oral examination! Well done, Dr. Yang!
Hangzhou
October 17-20, 2024
Weiming Xu, Tao Yang, Yicheng Chi, and Prof. Zhang attended the the China National Symposium on Combustion 2024 and their four papers were accepted as oral and poster presentations.
Tao Yang gave oral presentations on "Dynamical Behaviors of Circular Flickering Flames: Computational Identification and Stuart-Landau Modeling" and "Synchronization Modes of Triple Flickering Buoyant Diffusion Flames: Experimental Identification and Model interpretation".
Weiming Xu and Tao Yang also gave poster presentations on "Dimensionality Reduction and Dynamical Mode Recognition of Circular Arrays of Flame Oscillators Using Deep Neural Network" and "Dynamical Mode Recognition of Coupled Flame Oscillators by Supervised and Unsupervised Learning Approaches".
Porf. Zhang gave an interim defence poster of NSFC Founding on "Theoretical and Modelling Study on Droplet Collision in Lagrangian-Eulerian Simulation of Sprays".
Xi'an
October 11-13, 2024
Weiming Xu, Tao Yang, and Prof. Peng Zhang attended the 1st National Conference on Intelligent Fluid Mechanics and their two papers were presented entitled "Dynamical Mode Recognition of Coupled Flame Oscillators by Supervised and Unsupervised Learning Approaches" and "Dimensionality Reduction and Dynamical Mode Recognition of Circular Arrays of Flame Oscillators Using Deep Learning Approach", repectively .
Congratulations to Weiming Xu on the recipient of Best Paper Award at this conference.
Shanghai
June 24-27, 2024
Congratulations to Dr. Peng Zhang on successfully appliying Hong Kong for ILASS-Asia sub-session.
Tao Yang, Zeying Hu, Jinyang Wang, and Wenhao Wang attended the 16th International Conference on Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems (ICLASS). Four presentations were given:
"A New Scaling Law Of Splashing Threshold For Droplets Impacting On A Smooth Solid Surface" was presented by Tao Yang.
"Computational Realization Of Popping Impinging Sprays Of Hypergolic Bipropellants By A Spray-Equation Approach" was presented by Jinyang Wang.
"An Extended Kh-Rt Relaxation-Breakup Model For Eulerian-Lagrangian Simulation Of Two-Phase Detonation" and "Eulerian-Lagrangian Simulation Of Liquid-Fueled Oblique Detonation On Openfoam" were presented by Wenhao Wang.
Hong Kong
June 22, 2024
Porf. Zhang was invited to deliver a talk entitled "Droplet-Droplet Collision of Hypergolic Propellants" on 4th Conference on Micro Flow and Interfacial Phenomena (μFIP).
Hong Kong
May 31, 2024
We are glad to invite Prof. Jennifer WEN from the School of Mechanical Engineering Sciences, University of Surrey to deliver a M.E. Seminar entitled "Development and validation of OpenFOAM for safety related reactive fows".
Shanghai
Apr. 24, 2024
Prof. Zhang was invited by Prof. Fei Qi and Xi Xia to deliver a talk entitled "Eulerian-Lagrangian Simulation of Spray Combustion in Detonation and Rocket Engine" at School of Mechanical and Power Engineering in Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
The Lagrangian particle tracking (LPT) and spray equation methods were presented through recent computational works. Dr. Zhang conducted Q&A on the droplet modeling problems.
Foshan, Guangdong
Apr. 10, 2024
Prof. Peng Zhang and Prof. Ning Liu were invited by Dr. Xuren Zhu at Foshan Xianhu Laboratory (the Advanced Energy Science and Technology Guangdong Laboratory) to visit the green hydrogen and green ammonia preparation laboratory and the fuel cell test center, particularly the world's first zero-carbon ammonia fuel tile.
After the visits, we had an in-depth discussion on the ammonia-based combustion studies and future collaboration.
Hong Kong
Apr. 5, 2024
We are glad to invite Dr. He to visit CityU for two weeks. Multi-turn discussions have taken place between Prof. Zhang and Dr. He for writing a review paper on droplet-droplet collision.
Guangzhou
Mar. 30, 2024
Prof. Zhang was invited to deliver a talk entitled "Eulerian-Lagrangian Simulation of Biodiesel/n-butanol Dual-Fuel Spray Impingement in Inert and Combustion Environments" in The First Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Energy Technology Forum.
Beijing
Aug. 20, 2023
Congratulations to Prof. Zhang on successfully winning the hosting right for the 16th International Conference on Combustion and Energy Utilization ( ICCEU) in Hong Kong!
Beijing
Aug. 21, 2023
Prof. Zhang was invited by Prof. Zhenyu Zhang in Beijing Institute of Technology to deliver a talk entitled "Eulerian-Lagrangian Simulation of Dual-Fuel Spray Impingement and Combustion".
Dr. Zhang gave an impressive presentation and Q&A to more than 200 attendees online and onsite.
Beijing
Aug. 19, 2023
Prof. Zhang was invited as Session Chiarman of the 15th International Conference on Combustion and Energy Utilization ( ICCEU).
Yicheng Chi and Tao Yang attended the conference and presented their studies entitled "Regime Nomogram of Dynamic Modes in Triple Flickering Flames" and "Dynamical Behaviors of Small-scale
Flickering Buoyant Diffusion Flames in Externally Swirling Flows", respectively.
Hong Kong
Jul. 23, 2023
We are glad to invite Dr. Lu Tian and Dr. Bijie Yang from the Department of Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering, Loughborough University to deliver two Aerospace@CityU seminars about Ammonia and unsteady flow.
Dr. Tian delivered a talk entitled "Ammonia as a Fuel? The Impact of Ammonia Substitutions on NOx and Soot Formation" and Dr. Yang gave a presentation of "Unsteady Flow: From System to Component Level".
Hong Kong
Jul. 4, 2023
We warmly welcomed the delegation of specialists from Academy of Aerospace Liquid Propulsion Technology to MNE@CityU.
Dr. Zhang hosted the visit and delivered a talk entitled "Towards Quantiatively Predictive Multiphase Combustion Simulation".
Hefei
Jun. 29, 2023
Dr. Zhang was invited to give a talk entitled "Torsional PES Reconstruction and Metric-Based Assessment for Calculating Partition Functions by the MS-T Methods" in the 12th International Conference of Chemical Kinetics (12th ICCK).
Hong Kong
Jan. 31, 2023
We are glad to invite Dr. Mota to deliver an Aerospace@CityU seminar about hypergolic green propellants for aerospace propulsion. After the seminar, we had an in-depth discussion on hypergolic ignition by droplet collisions and future collaboration. A dinner was hosted to welcome Dr. Mota’s visiting.
Best Paper Award
T. Yang and P. Zhang*, Flickering Buoyant Diffusion Flames in Rotatory Flows, the Best Paper in Laminar Flame Colloquium of China National Symposium on Combustion, Shanghai, China, December 9-11, 2022.
Newly Accepted Papers
A paper has been recently accepted by Combustion and Flame: Dynamical Mode Recognition of Triple Flickering Buoyant Diffusion Flames in Wasserstein Space. Please refer to the preprint version.
A paper has been recently published by The Journal of Physical Chemistry A: A Metric-based Assessment Method for MS-T Formalism with Small Subsets of Torsional Conformers. Please refer to the online version.
These two papers on different topics use the same mathematical concept of metric (distance function), one defined in a probability space and the other in a high-dimensional space of dihedral angles of molecules.
Best Paper Award
C. He, L. Yue, and P. Zhang*, A Computational Study of Spinning Effects on Separation of Colliding Droplets, the Best Paper in Spray and Droplet Combustion Colloquium of China National Symposium on Combustion, Dalian, China, January 14-16, 2022.
Best Paper Award
C. He and P. Zhang*, A Computational Study of Spinning Effects on Bouncing and Coalescence of Head on Colliding Droplets, ILASS (Institute for Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems)-Asia, Zhengjiang, China, Oct. 2020.
ASPCC Young Investigator Award
T. Yang, X. Xia, and P. Zhang*, Flickering Mode Transition of Dual Pool Flames, 12th Asia-Pacific Conference on Combustion 2019, Fukuoka, 1-5 July.
Hong Kong
Aug. 05, 2022
Congratulations to Yicheng Chi on successfully defending his thesis and receiving a PhD degree! Well done, Dr. Chi!
Hong Kong
Aug. 24, 2017
A delegation of professors from University of Chinese Academy of Sciences visited us. Dr. Xia (right) and Mr. Yang (left) hosted a dinner to the delegation after Prof. Yongliang Yu delivered a departmental seminar entitled "The Propulsion of Flying and Swimming Animals".
Beijing
Aug. 17, 2017
Dr. Zhang received a Guest Professorship from State Key Laboratory of High-temperature Gas Dynamics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and delivered an invited talk entitled "Hypergolic Ignition by Binary Collision of TMEDA and WFNA Droplets"
Beijing
Aug. 15, 2017
Dr. Zhang delivered an invited talk entitled "Towards High-level Theoretical Chemical Kinetics of Large-molecule Fuel Combustion" in the Shock Wave Colloquium of Chinese Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (CCTAM-2017).
Dr. Xia presented a paper entitled "Vortex-ring-induced internal mixing within coalesced droplets" in CCTAM-2017.