Chengming He is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Energy Research, Jiangsu University, China. He completed his M.S. in Fluid Mechanical Engineering at the School of Energy and Power Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, and his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Before his current role, he was a Research Associate at the Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2022), and a Research Assistant in Mechanical Engineering at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (2016). His research interests include fluid dynamics, multiphase flow, droplet collision dynamics, spray combustion, and theoretical chemical kinetics.
Zhixia He is a professor at the Energy
Research Institute, Jiangsu University. She received her B.Sc. at uid Machinery
and Engineering, Gansu University of Science and Technology, China in 1998, her
M.Sc. at Fluid Machinery and Engineering, Jiangsu University, China in 2001 and
her Ph.D. at Power Machinery and Engineering, Jiangsu University, China in
2004. She was a vice president of the Institute for Energy Research, Jiangsu
University, China from 2014 to 2020 and Chair of the Institute Council, Institute
for Energy Research, Jiangsu University, China from 2020 to 2023. She was
awarded Key Technology and Application of High-Pressure Fuel Injection
Cavitation spray, The Second Prize for Advancement in Science & Technology,
Awarded by the Department of Science and Technology in Jiangsu province, Rank
1st in 2021 and Research on Key Technologies for High Thermal Efficiency of
Heavy Duty Diesel Engine, Special Prize for Scientific and Technological
Invention, Awarded by China Machinery Industry Federation, Rank 6th in 2022.
Her interests include Spray and Turbulent Combustion in Diesel Engines,
Numerical Simulation and Visual Experiment of Two-phase Flow and Theory and
Technology of Thermal Fluid in the Utilization of Energy.
Nigel John Simms is a professor at Cranfield University. He has a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Metallurgy from the University of Cambridge, which was followed by an MA and BA (Hons) in Natural Sciences (physical sciences) also from the University of Cambridge. He has wide-ranging experience in the performance of components and materials in advanced power generation systems, as well as in the design and development of large laboratory-scale test rigs and pilot plants for investigating materials performance in realistic industrial conditions. He has expertise in high-temperature corrosion and the life prediction of materials for gas turbines, heat exchangers and gas cleaning components in power generation systems. His areas of expertise included Biomass and Waste, Carbon Capture and Storage, Conventional and Advanced Fuels, Fuels, Gas Turbines and Propulsion, Power Systems and turbines, Structures and Materials and Surface Engineering.
Prof. Dr. Peng Zhang is an associate
professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, City University of Hong
Kong, Hong Kong. He received his B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering at the
University of Science and Technology of China in 2000, his M.Sc. in Aerospace
Engineering at the Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2003,
and his Ph.D. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University
in 2010. His Skills and Expertise included Ab Initio Chemical Kinetics, Fluid
and Thermodynamics. His Research Interests included Droplet and spray dynamics,
Theoretical chemical kinetics, Supersonic combustion, Fire whirl, Gas-turbine
combustion, and Rarefied gas dynamics.
