Three-Dimensional Hydraulic Transients:

  1. Xiaoxi Zhang, Yongguang Cheng, Jiandong Yang, Linsheng Xia and Xu Lai, Simulating the load rejection transient process of a Francis turbine by using a 1D-3D coupling approach, Journal of Hydrodynamics, 2014,26(5):715-724.

  2. Xiao-xi ZHANG, Yong-guang CHENG, Simulation of hydraulic transients in hydropower systems using the 1-D-3-D coupling approach, Journal of Hydrodynamics, 2012, 24(4): 595-604.

  3. Linsheng Xia, Yongguang Cheng and Daqing Zhou, 3-D simulation of transient flow patterns in a corridor-shaped air-cushion surge chamber based on computational fluid dynamics, Journal of Hydrodynamics, 2013, 25(2):249-257

  4. X X Zhang, Y G Cheng, L S Xia and J D Yang,Dynamic characteristics of a pump-turbine during hydraulic transients of a model pumped-storage system: 3D CFD simulation. 27th IAHR Symposium on Hydraulic Machinery and Systems. September 22-26, 2014. Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

  5. Kang Yu, Yongguang Cheng, Xiaoxi Zhang, Hydraulic characteristics of a siphon-shaped overflow tower in a long water conveyance system: CFD simulation and analysis. Journal of Hydrodynamics, 2015 (accepted)

  6. Jianfeng You, Xu Lai, Wei Zhou, Yongguang Cheng,3D CFD simulation of the runaway process of a Pelton turbine, Part A: Journal of Power and Energy December 7, 2015, doi:10.1177/0957650915619254

  7. Yongguang CHENG, Jinping LI, JiandongYANG, Free surface-pressurized flow in ceiling-sloping tailrace tunnel of hydropower plant: Simulation by VOF model, Journal of Hydraulic Research (IAHR), Vol. 45, No. 1, (2007), pp. 88–99


Lattice Boltzmann method and immersed-boundary method


1. Chunze Zhang, Yongguang Cheng, Luoding Zhu, Jiayang Wu, Accuracy improvement of the immersed boundary-lattice Boltzmann coupling scheme by iterative force correction, Computers and Fluids, 2016, 124(1): 246-260

2. Wei Diao, Yongguang Cheng, Cunze Zhang, Jiayang Wu, Three Dimensional Prediction of Reservoir Water Temperature by the Lattice Boltzmann Method: Validation, Journal of Hydrodynamics, 2015,27(2):248-256

3.  Chunze Zhang, Yongguang Cheng, Shan Huang, Jiayang Wu, Improving the stability of the multiple-relaxation-time lattice Boltzmann method by a viscosity counteracting approach, Adv. Appl. Math. Mech.,2016, 8(1): 37-51

4. Jiayang Wu, Yongguang Cheng, Chunze Zhang, Wei Diao, Three-dimensional simulation of balloon dynamics by the immersed boundary method coupling the multiple-relaxation-time lattice Boltzmann method, Commun. Comput. Phys. 2015, 17(5): 1271-1300

5. Yongguang Cheng, Luoding Zhu, Numerical study of stability and accuracy of the immersed boundary method coupled to the lattice Boltzmann BGK model, Commun. Comput. Phys, 2014, 16(1): 136-168

6. Chunze Zhang, Yongguang Cheng, Luoding Zhu, Shan Huang,Lattice Boltzmann Simulation of the Open Channel Flow Connecting Two Cascaded Hydropower Stations, Journal of Hydrodynamics, 2014 (accepted)

7. Yongguang Cheng, Hui Zhang and Chang Liu, Immersed Boundary-Lattice Boltzmann Coupling Scheme for Fluid-Structure Interaction with Flexible Boundary, Commun. Comput. Phys. 2011. 9(5), pp. 1375-1396

8. Yongguang Cheng and Hui Zhang, Viscosity Counteracting Approach in Lattice Boltzmann BGK Model for Low Viscosity Flow: Preliminary Verification, Computers and Mathematics with Applications 61 (2011) 3690–3702

9. Yongguang Cheng and Hui Zhang, Immersed boundary method and lattice Boltzmann method coupled FSI simulation of mitral leaflet flow, Computers and Fluids 39 (2010), pp. 871-881

10. Cheng Yongguang and Li Jinping. Introducing unsteady non-uniform source terms into the lattice Boltzmann model. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, 2008, 56: 629–641

11. Cheng Yongguang, Suo Lisheng. Lattice Boltzmann Scheme to Simulate Two-Dimensional Fluid Transients. Journal of Hydrodynamics, Ser.B. 2003(2):19-23.

12. Cheng Yongguang, Suo Lisheng. New Boundary Treatment Methods for Lattice Boltzmann Method. Wuhan University Journal of Natural Sciences, 2003, Vol.8, No.1A:77-85

13. Wang Xingyong, Suo Lisheng, Cheng Yongguang, Liu Deyou, Lattice Boltzmann Method with Double Meshes, Journal of Hydrodynamics, Ser. B, 2003(1):90-96.


CFD applications to hydraulic engineering 


1. Xiaoxi Zhang, Yongguang Cheng, Chang Liu, Simulation and optimization of flow characteristics in vertical inlet /outlet of pumped-storage power station by CFD method, Journal of Hydroelectric Engineering, 2012, 31(2):87-94 (in Chinese)

2. Chunguang Liang and Yongguang Cheng, Hydraulic optimization of pipe bifurcation of pumped-storage power station by CFD method , Journal of Hydroelectric Engineering, 2010, 29(3):  84-91.(in Chinese)

3.  Xiao Tang and Yongguang Cheng, Multidimensional prediction of reservoir water temperature based on FLUENT, Journal of Wuhan University (Engineering Edition), 2010,(1): 59-63. (in Chinese)

4. Deng Songyi, Cheng Yongguang, Wu Di, Flow characteristics of long corridor-shaped surge tank and elimination of the air-entraining vertical vortices: CFD simulation and analysis, Journal of Hydroelectric Engineering, 2009, 28(4): 130-136. (in Chinese)

5. Wu Di, Zhang Jian, Cheng Yongguang, Li Chong, Formula for water hammer wave speed in conduits with thin rubber tube inside, Journal of Hydraulic Engineering(Shuili Xuebao). 2008(3): 288-294. (In Chinese).

6. Yongguang Cheng, Xiaofeng Liu, Jiandong Yang. Optimization of the converging type of conduit of tailrace surge tank by CFD method, Journal of Hydroelectric Engineering, 2007,26, (5):68-74 (in Chinese)


Hydraulic transients in hydropower and pumping stations


1.  W Zeng, J D Yang, Y G Cheng and W C Guo. Formulae for the intersecting curves of pump-turbine characteristic curves with coordinate planes in three dimensional parameter space. J Power and Energy, 2015, Vol. 229(3) 324–336

2. Wei Zeng, Jiandong Yang, Yongguang Cheng Construction of Pump-turbine characteristics at Any Specific Speed by Domain-Partitioned transformation. Journal of Fluids Engineering 2015, Vol. 137 / 031103-1-12 . DOI: 10.1115/1.4028607

3.  Zeng, W., Yang, J. D., Cheng, Y. G.. Domain Partitioned Transformation of Pump-turbine Characteristic Curves in 3-D Space. ASME 26th Symposium on Fluid Machinery. August 3-7, 2014. Chicago, Illinois, USA.


Biofluid dynamics


1. Yongguang Cheng, Herbert Oertel Jr., and Torsten Schenkel, Fluid-structure coupled CFD simulation of the left ventricular flow during filling phase, Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 2005,33(5):567-576 /DOI: 10.1007/s10439-005-4388-9

2.  Yongguang Cheng, Herbert Oertel Jr., Lukas Zürcher and Torsten Schenkel, 3D CFD Simulation of Pulsatile Blood Flow in the Human Aorta, Chinese Journal of Biomedical Engineering-English Edition, 2003(4): 174-183

3.  Yongguang Cheng and Hui Zhang, Immersed boundary method and lattice Boltzmann method coupled FSI simulation of mitral leaflet flow, Computers and Fluids 39 (2010), pp. 871-881