Yan Hong
Contact Information
School of Power and Energy
Northwestern Polytechnical University
127 Youyi XiLu
Xi'an Shaanxi 710072, P.R.China
Email:yanhong@nwpu.edu.cn
Education
· Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, P.R. China, June 1997.
· M.S.E. Mechanical Engineering, Summa Cum Laude, Northwestern Polytechnical University, P.R. China, March 1994.
· B.E. Mechanical Engineering, Summa Cum Laude, Northwestern Polytechnical University, P.R. China, July 1991.
Teaching Experiences
· Adjunct Professor, Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Wright State University.
· Adjunct Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Rutgers University.
Research Experiences
· Professor (Dec 2010 - Present) School of Power and Energy, Northwestern Polytechnical University.
· Research Scientist/Research Professor (May 2005 - Nov 2010) Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Wright State University, USA.
Collaborators: Datta Gaitonde, Joseph Shang
· Research Assistant Professor (Sept 2002 - April 2005) Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Rutgers University, USA
Collaborators: Doyle Knight, Greg Elliott, Graham Candler, Alex Zheltovodov
· Research Associate/Postdoctoral Associate (Sept 1999 - Aug 2002) Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Rutgers University, USA.
Collaborators: Doyle Knight, Greg Elliott, Alex Zheltovodov
· Postdoctoral Associate (Sept 1997 - Aug 1999) Department of Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University, P.R. China.
Collaborators: Mingde Su, Song Fu
Honors and Awards
· Northwestern Polytechnical University scholarship, 1989, 1990, 1991.
· CAST scholarship for outstanding research achievements, 1992.
· Best paper award at the 2nd Annual Dayton Engineering Sciences Symposium, Dayton, OH, May 2007. The title is “Control of High-Speed Aerodynamic Interaction by Pulsed Energy Deposition”.
Professional Activities
· Associate Fellow of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
· Member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Flow Control.
· Member of the Fluid Dynamics Technical Committee, AIAA, 2002-2005.
· Referee for Acta Mechanica, Advances in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, Aerospace Science and Technology, AIAA Journal, Computing in Science & Engineering, International Journal of Flow Control, Journal of Fluids Engineering, Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, Latin American Applied Research, Physics of Fluids, Shock Waves.
· Session Chair, “ RAM / SCRAMjet 1 and supersonic engines”,29thCongress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia, September 7-12, 2014.
· Session Chair, “Compressors”, 21st International Society for Air Breathing Engines, Busan, Korea, September 9-13, 2013.
· Organizer and Session Chair, “Flow Control and Drag Reduction”, The Chinese Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Xi'an, China, August 19-21, 2013.
· Session Chair, “Hypersonics”, 5th European Conference for Aeronautics and Space Sciences (EUCASS), Munich, Germany, July 1-5, 2013.
· Session Chair, “Compressible Flows”, 23rd International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ICTAM2012), Beijing, China, August 2012.
· Session Chair, 4th Symposium on Hybrid RANS-LES Methods, Beijing, China, September 2011.
· Session Chair, “Structured, Unstructured, and Cartesian Methods”, 41st AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 2011.
· Session Chair, “Closed Loop Investigations of Flow Control”, 5th AIAA Flow Control Conference, Chicago, IL, June 2010.
· Session Chair, “Magnetohydrodynamic Numerical Simulations”, 48th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting Including the New Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition, Orlando, FL, January 2010.
· Session Chair, “Unsteady Flow Computation”, 39th AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference, San Antonio, TX, June 2009.
· Session Chair, “Turbulent Boundary Layers: Experimental Studies II”, 61st Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, San Antonio, TX, November 2008.
· Session Chair, “Flow Control: Experimental and Numerical Investigations”, 38th AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference, Tucson, AZ, June 2008.
· Session Chair, “Energy Deposition for Flow Control I”, 46th Aerospace Sciences Meeting & Exhibit, Reno, NV, January 2008.
· Session Chair, “LES Methods I”, 44th Aerospace Sciences Meeting & Exhibit, Reno, NV, January 2006.
· Session Chair, “Jet Flows”, 41st Aerospace Sciences Meeting & Exhibit, Reno, NV, January 2003.
Invited Talks
· “Effect of Thermal Perturbation on Supersonic Boundary Layer", State Key Laboratory of High Temperature Gas Dynamics, Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, December 2011.
· “Numerical Simulation of Thermal Perturbation in Supersonic Boundary Layer”, The Chinese Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Harbin, P.R.China, August 2011.
· “Large Eddy Simulation in Supersonic Flows”, American Air Force Research Laboratory, Propulsion Directorate, August 2009.
· “Effect of Thermally-Induced Perturbation in Compressible Flow”, American Air Force Research Laboratory, Propulsion Directorate, August 2009.
· “Laser Energy Deposition in Edney IV Interaction”, Wright State University, Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, May 2007.
Grants
· Grants for External Funding
1. Principal Investigator. Received an award of 600,000RMB from National Science Foundation of China (NSFC) under grant No. 51176157, January 2012-December 2015. The proposal is entitled “Mechanisms of Thermal Actuator in High-Speed Jets Control”.
2. Co-Principal Investigator. Received an award of $210,482 from the US Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) under grant No. FA9550-08-1-0130, January 2008-February 2011. The proposal is entitled “Cyber-Based Turbulent Hydrogen Combustion Simulation”.
Publications
· Chapter in Book
1. Yan, H.,“Thermal Perturbations in Supersonic Transition", in BookLow Reynolds Number Aerodynamics and Transition, ISBN 978-953-51-0492-6, InTech, April 2012.
· Journal Publications
1. Yan, H. and Wang, S., “Effect of Constant Pressure Specific Heat(Cp) in Shock Wave Control Using Surface Discharge”,Acta Mechanica Sinica,to appear, 2014.
2. Yu, X. J. and Yan, H., “Parametric Study of Laser Energy Deposition in Mach 8 Bow Shock”, International Journal of Flow Control, Vol. 4, No.1-2, June 2012, pp.19-28.
3. Shang, J. Surzhikov, S.T. and Yan, H., “Hypersonic Nonequilibrium Flow Simulation Based on Kinetic Models”, Frontiers in Aerospace Engineering, Vol.1, Iss.1, 2012, pp.1-12.
4. Yan, H. and Gaitonde, D., “Parametric Study of Pulsed Thermal Bumps in Supersonic Boundary Layer”,Shock Waves, Vol.21, No.5, 2011, pp.411-423; doi:10.1007/s00193-011-0309-z. SCI(ISI:000294260900002)
5. Yan, H. and Gaitonde, D., “Effect of Thermal Bump in Supersonic Flow Control”,International Journal of Flow Control, Vol.2, No.3, September 2010, pp.183-196;doi:10.1260/1756-8250.2.3.183. EI(20111013730777)
6. Yan, H. and Gaitonde, D., “Effect of Thermally-Induced Perturbation in Supersonic Boundary Layer”,Physics of Fluids,Vol.22, 064101, June 2010; doi:10.1063/1.3432513. EI(20102813077800), SCI(ISI:000280143100019)
7. Aradag, S., Yan, H. and Knight, D., “The Effects of Laser Energy Deposition on Supersonic Cavity Flow”,Journal of Thermal Science & Technology,Vol.29, Issue 2, October 2009, pp.67-73. SCI=1(ISI:000271081400008)
8. Shang, J. S., Huang, P. G., Yan, H. and Surzhikov, S. T., “Computational Electrodynamic Simulation of Direct Current Discharge”,Journal of Applied Physics,Vol.105, Issue 2, January 2009, article 023303; doi: 10.1063/1.3066185. (14 pages).EI(20090711902938), SCI=4(ISI:000262970900015)
9. Yan, H. and Gaitonde, D., “Effect of Energy Pulse on 3-D Edney IV Interaction”,AIAA Journal,Vol.46, No.6, June 2008, pp. 1424-1431; doi:10.2514/1.31530. EI(20082711348088), SCI(ISI:000256900500013)
10. Yan, H., Knight, D., Kandala, R. and Candler, G., “Effect of a Laser Pulse on a Normal Shock”,AIAA Journal,Vol.45, No.6, June 2007, pp.1270-1280; doi:10.2514/1.18283. EI(20072710690070), SCI=1(ISI:000246990000012)
11. Adelgren, R., Yan, H., Elliott, G., Knight, D., Beutner, T. and Zheltovodov, A. A., “Control of Edney IV Interaction by Pulsed Laser Energy Deposition”,AIAA Journal,Vol.43, No.2, Feb. 2005, pp.256-269.EI(2005088848374), SCI=20(ISI:000226626400003)
12. Yan, H., Boguszko, M., Adelgren, R., Elliott, G. and Knight, D., “Laser Energy Deposition in Quiescent Air”,AIAA Journal,Vol.41, No.10, Oct. 2003, pp.1988-1995.EI(2003447702560), SCI=10(ISI:000185612300015)
13. Yan, H., Adelgren, R., Elliott, G., Knight, D. and Beutner, T., “Effect of Energy Addition on MR –〉RR Transition”,Shock Waves,Vol.13, Issue 2, September 2003, pp.113-121.SCI=7(ISI:000185598100004)
14. Knight, D., Yan, H., Panaras, A. and Zheltovodov, A. A., “Advances in CFD Prediction of Shock Wave Turbulent Boundary Layer Interactions”,Progress in Aerospace Sciences,Vol.39, Issues 2-3, February, 2003, pp.121-184; doi:10.1016/S0376-0421(02)00069-6. EI(2003127402491), SCI=33(ISI:000181909900002)
15. Yan, H., Knight, D. and Zheltovodov, A. A., “Large Eddy Simulation of Supersonic Flat Plate Boundary Layer Using MILES Technique”,Journal of Fluids Engineering,Vol.124, Issue 4, December 2002, pp.868-875; doi:10.1115/1.1516578. EI(2005018766341),SCI=5(ISI:000180014400007)
16.Yan, H. and Su, M., “Application of Stimulated Small Scale Model in Turbulent Round Jet Flows”,Acta Mechanica Sinica,Vol. 32, No. 5, 2000, pp.513-522.
17. Yan, H. and Su, M.,“Application and Comparison of Two SGS Models in Large Eddy Simulation of Free Turbulent Jet Flow”,Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation,Vol.4, Issue 1, March, 1999, pp.12-19; doi:10.1016/S1007-5704(99)90048-5. EI(2005169053870)
