Name: Yuejin Zhu
Title: Full Professor
Phone: (+86) 0511-88780214
E-mail: zyjwind@163.com

Working Experience
July 2021 – Present    Jiangsu University, Professor
June 2017 – June 2021   Jiangsu University, Associate Professor
June 2013 – May 2017   Jiangsu University, Lecturer
September 2018 – September 2019   University College London, Visiting scholar

Education Background
● Doctor of Engineering (Sep.2008 – Jun.2013)
-Nanjing University of Science and Technology
● Bachelor of Engineering (Sep.2004 – Jun.2008)
-Nanjing University of Science and Technology

Research Interests
● Aero-engine / advanced power propulsion system
● Heat and Mass Transfer
● Artificial intelligence and its application in fluid mechanics
● Plasma technology

Research Techniques and Skills
● Experimental techniques: (a) PIV; (b) High Speed Camera
● CFD simulation: Application of FLUENT, MD, OpenFOAM, C++ and Fortran

Projects
● National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2023-2026
● National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2019-2022
● National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2015-2017
● Jiangsu Provincial Natural Science Foundation, 2015-2017

Publications
● Numerical study on rotating detonation combustion with the discrete distribution of partially pre-vaporized n-heptane sprays. Fuel, 2024, 356: 129650.
● Effects of the perturbation inlet on the evolution and oscillation characteristics of multiple rotating detonation waves. Aerospace Science and Technology, 2023, 141: 108586.
● Effects of the swirler on the performance of an advanced vortex combustor. Applied Thermal Engineering, 2023, 230, 120752.
● Effects of the quantity and arrangement of reactive jet obstacles on flame acceleration and transition to detonation: A numerical study. Aerospace Science and Technology, 2023, 137: 108269.
● Numerical investigation of the effect of equivalence ratio on the propagation characteristics and performance of rotating detonation engine. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 2023, 48: 24074–24088.
● Numerical investigation of the effect of reactive gas jets on the flame acceleration and DDT process. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 2023. DOI: https://doi.org/ 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2022.12.280
● Effect of fluidic obstacle on flame acceleration and DDT process in hydrogen-air mixture. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 2023, 48: 14896–14907.
● Effect of hydrogen concentration distribution on flame acceleration and deflagration-to-detonation transition in staggered obstacle-laden channel. Physics of Fluids, 2023, 35, 016124.
● Study on mechanisms of methane/ hydrogen blended combustion using reactive molecular dynamics simulation. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 2023, 48: 1625–1635.
● Flame acceleration and onset of detonation in inhomogeneous mixture of hydrogen-air in an obstructed channel. Aerospace Science and Technology, 2022, 130: 107944.
● Effect of solid obstacle distribution on flame acceleration and DDT in obstructed channels filled with hydrogen-air mixture. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 2022, 47: 12759–12770.
● Computational study of planar shock wave interacting with elliptical heavy gas bubble. Acta Mechanica Sinica, 2021, 37(8): 1264–1277.
● Numerical Investigation of Weak Planar Shock— Elliptical Light Gas Bubble Interaction in Shock and Reshock Accelerated Flow. Fluid Dynamics, 2021, 56(3): 393–402.
● On the interaction between a diffraction shock wave and a cylindrical sulfur hexafluoride bubble. AIP Advances, 2021, 11, 045319.
● Effect of reactive gas mixture distributions on the flame evolution in shock accelerated flow. Acta Astronautica, 2021, 179: 484–494.
● Sulfur hexafluoride bubble evolution in shock accelerated flow with a transverse density gradient. Physics of Fluids, 2020, 32, 026101.
● Characteristics study on a modified advanced vortex combustor. Energy, 2020, 193, 116805.
● Three-dimensional shock-sulfur hexafluoride bubble interaction. AIP Advances, 2019, 9, 115306.
● Flame evolution in shock-accelerated flow under different reactive gas mixture gradients. Physical Review E, 2019, 100, 013111.
● Numerical investigation of planar shock wave impinging on spherical gas bubble with different densities. Physics of Fluids, 2019, 31, 056101.
● Numerical study on stability and influencing factors of heterogeneous reaction for hydrogen/oxygen mixture in planar catalytic micro combustor. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 2019, 44, 29(7): 15587–15597.
● Numerical investigation of shock-SF6 bubble interaction with different mach numbers. Computers and Fluids, 2018, 177: 78–86.
● Jet formation of SF6 bubble induced by incident and reflected shock waves. Physics of Fluids, 2017, 29, 126105.
● Stable detonation characteristics of premixed C2H4/O2 gas in narrow gaps. Exp. Fluids, 2017, 58: 112.
● Flow topology of three-dimensional spherical flame in shock accelerated flows. Advances in Materials Science and Engineering, 2016, 3158091.
● Three-dimensional numerical simulations of spherical flame evolutions in shock and reshock accelerated flows. Combustion Science and Technology, 2013, 185(10): 1415–1440.
● Effect of chemical reactivity on the detonation initiation in shock accelerated flow in a confined space. Acta Mechanica Sinica, 2013, 29(1): 54–61.
● Formation and evolution of vortex rings induced by interactions between shock waves and a low-density bubble. Shock Waves, 2012, 22(6): 495–509.