Yongguang Cheng

Doctor,Professor
Research：Coordinated regulation of hydropower and new energy
Phone：86-13971388746
Email：ygcheng@whu.edu.cn

Dr. Yongguang Cheng is a full professor with School of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering of Wuhan University, China, and a senior researcher at State Key Laboratory of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering Science. He is the director of Teaching Section of Hydropower Station, and the deputy director of Research Institute of Hydropower Station Safety and Control.

He obtained a Ph. D. degree in engineering in 1998 at Wuhan Univ. of Hydr. & Elec. Eng., China, majoring in hydraulic structure engineering with research direction hydraulics in hydropower engineering; a Master's degree of engineering in 1995 at Wuhan Univ. of Hydr. & Elec. Eng., China, majoring in hydropower engineering with research direction hydraulic transients; a Bachelor's degree of engineering in 1992 at Wuhan Univ. of Hydr. & Elec. Eng., China, majoring in construction of water conservancy and hydropower engineering.

As a senior visiting fellow, he visited Department of Mathematics, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, USA, from 2011/05 to 2011/06; Iowa Institute of Hydraulic Research (IIHR), the University of Iowa, USA, from 2009/08 to 2010/02. As a postdoctoral researcher, he studied at Institute of Fluid Mechanics, Karlsruhe University, Germany, from 2002/06 to 2004/08, and Hohai University, China, from 1998/12-2000/12.

He is an expert in hydraulic transients of hydropower and pumped storage plants, lattice Boltzmann methods and its applications to environmental and ecological hydraulics, and biofluid mechanics. He published more than one hundred papers and five patents on these topics, and translated Hanif Chaudhry’s Applied Hydraulic Transients-Springer (2014) to Chinese. He was granted six National Natural Science Foundation (NSFC) projects and has participated in more than thirty industrial consulting projects. His recent focus is on tree-dimensional hydraulic transient analysis of pumped-storage systems.