Hydraulic transients in hydropower and pumping stations
Three-Dimensional Hydraulic Transients
Lattice Boltzmann method and immersed-boundary method
CFD applications to hydraulic engineering
Biofluid dynamics
Research Projects Taken Part in (Government Granted)
1. National Natural Science Foundation of China, (Grant: 51579187):Mechanism study of oscillation response between hydraulic system
and pump-turbine during transient process in pumped-storage plants. (Project head, 2016/01 to 2019/12).
2. National Natural Science Foundation of China, (Grant: 11172219): Study and application of 3D immersed boundary method for biology turbulence simulation of fluid-structure interaction with flexible boundary. (Project head, 2012/01 to 2015/12).
3. National Natural Science Foundation of China, Key project (Grant: 51039005): Study of full-characteristics of reversible turbine and their impact on hydraulic transient process based on spatial-surface concept. (2010/01 to 2014/12)
4. National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant: 10872153): Study and application of FSI algorithm by coupling lattice Boltzmann and immersed boundary methods. (Project head, 2009/01 to 2011/12).
5. National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant: 10572106): Fluid-structure coupled numerical study of blood flow in the human heart. (Project head, 2006/01 to 2008/12)
6. National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant: 50009007): Study on numerical simulations for multi-dimensional flows in hydropower stations based on the lattice Boltzmann method. (Project head, 2000/01 to 2003/12).
7. Scientific Research Foundation for Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars, Ministry of Education,
8. Opening Foundation of the State Key Lab. Water Resources and Hydrology (Grant: 2005408811): General numerical modeling of reservoir temperature. (Project head, 2006/01 to 2007/12).
9. National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant: 50149010): Water air two-phase fluid theory and its application to ceiling-sloping tailrace tunnel in hydropower station. ( 2001/01 to 2002/12).
10. National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant: 59909006): Study on stability characteristics of water way system with ceiling-sloping tailrace tunnel in hydropower station. ( 2000/01 to 2002/12).
11. National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant: 59679007): Study on working characteristics of large scale tailrace surge tank in hydropower station.( 1997/01 to 1999/12).
Research Projects Taken Part in (Industrial Collaboration)
1. Simulation of hydraulic transient processes in Xianjue pumped-storage station, HydroChina Huadong Engineering Co., Ltd., 2011~2012.
2. Flow field and surge wave simulation of Changzhou instream hydropower station, China Power Investment Southern Power Company Limited, 2010-2012
3. Spillway flow simulations of Ecuador CCS Project, Yellow River Engineering Consulting Co., Ltd., 2012.
4. Sediment basin and intake optimization for Ecuador CCS Project, Yellow River Engineering Consulting Co., Ltd., 2012.
5. Flow Field and Head Loss Predictions of Penstock Bifurcations of Ecuador CCS Project, Yellow River Engineering Consulting Co., Ltd., 2011
6. Experimental study of hydraulic transient processes in Goupitan hydropower plant, Changjiang River Engineering Consulting Co., Ltd., 2009~2010.
7. Numerical optimization of the bifurcation flow characteristics under the tailrace surge tank of Guandi hydropower plant, HydroChina Chengdu Engineering Co., Ltd., 2009~2010.
8. CFD prediction of the bifurcation head losses of Liyang pumped-storage plant, HydroChina Zhongnan Engineering Co., Ltd., 2007~2008.
9. Simulation of hydraulic transient processes in Baoquan pumped-storage station, HydroChina Beijing Engineering Co., Ltd., 2008~2009.
10.Experimental study of hydraulic transient processes in Longtan hydropower plant, HydroChina Zhongnan Engineering Co., Ltd., 2008~2009.
11. Optimization of the intake/outlet and bifurcation of Yangjiang pumped-storage plant, Guangdong Hydropower Planning and Design Institute, 2007~2008.