Dr. Chuhua Zhang
Xi’an Jiaotong University



Department of Fluid Machinery and Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, 28 West Xianning Road, Xi'an, 710049, Shaanxi Province, P.R.China
Email：chzhang@mail.xjtu.edu.cn    Homepage：http://gr.xjtu.edu.cn/web/chzhang

Dr. Chuhua Zhang is a professor at Department of Fluid Machinery and Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, the director of Shaanxi Province International Joint Research Center of Fluid Machinery, a member of Fluid Machinery Committee of Chinese Society of Engineering Thermophysics (CSET). He was awarded the New Century Excellent Talent in university by the China Ministry of Education in 2006, the first group of Young Scholar Program by Xi’an Jiaotong University in 2007. He was financially supported by more than forty research grants including the first group of national key research and development program in China in 2016. He published more than 150 papers, 4 monographs and text-books, and educated more than 60 graduate students. Besides, Prof. Zhang is currently the member of editorial board for Journal of Thermal Science, Journal of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Chinese Journal of Turbomachinery. 

His main research interest lies in:
Ø Turbo-compressor aerodynamics and design optimization methods
Ø Parallel computational fluid dynamics
Ø Gas turbine aero-thermodynamics

Selected Journal Publications Since 2016：
（1） Qiao B, Ju YP, Zhang CH, 2019, Numerical investigation on labyrinth seal leakage flow and its effects on aerodynamic performance for a multistage centrifugal compressor, ASME Journal of Fluids Engineering, 141(7):071107-071107-12
（2） Wang K, Ju YP, Zhang CH, 2019, A quantitative evaluation method for impeller-volute interaction and application to squirrel cage fan with bionic volute tongue, ASME Journal of Fluids Engineering, 141(8):081104-081104-13
（3） Wang K, Ju YP, Zhang CH, 2019, Numerical investigation on flow mechanisms of a squirrel cage fan, IMechE Part A: Journal of Power and Energy, 233(1): 3-16
（4） Zhu ZS, Zhang CH, Zhang L, 2019, Experimental and numerical investigation on inspiration and expiration flows in an three-generation human lung airway model at two flow rates, Respiratory Physiology & Neurobiology, 262: 40-48
（5） Liu A, Ju YP, Zhang CH, 2018, Parallel simulation of aerodynamic instabilities in a transonic axial compressor rotor, AIAA Journal of Propulsion and Power, 34(6): 1561-1573
（6） Chen WQ, Ju YP, Zhang CH, 2018, A multidomain multigrid pseudospectral method for incompressible flows, Numerical Heat Transfer, Part B, 74(1): 415-431
（7） Ju YP, Liu S, Zhang CH, 2018, The effect of blade shape on hydraulic performance and vortex structure of vortex pumps using CFD method, Journal of Hydrodynamics, 30(3): 499-506
（8） Li Z, Ju YP, Zhang CH, 2017, Hybrid central-WENO scheme for large eddy simulation of turbulent flows with shocks, Numerical Heat Transfer, Part B, 72（2）：170-189
（9） Ju YP, Parks G, Zhang CH, 2017, A bisection-sampling-based SVR-HDMR metamodeling technique for high-dimensional problems, IMechE Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, 231（12）：2173-2186
（10） Wang NN, Liu HH, Zhang CH, 2017, Deformation and breakup of a confined droplet in shear flows with power-law rheology, Journal of Rheology, 61（4）：741-758
（11） Peng YZ, Wang Y, Zi YY, Tsui KL, Zhang CH, 2017, Dynamic reliability assessment and prediction for repairable systems with interval-censored data, Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 159（1）：301-309
（12） Wang NN, Liu HH, Zhang CH, 2016, Three-dimensional phase-field lattice Boltzmann model for incompressible two-phase flows, Journal of Computational Science, 17(SI): 340-356
（13） Ju YP, Zhang CH, Ma L, 2016, Artificial intelligence metamodel comparison and application to wind turbine airfoil uncertainty analysis, Advances in Mechanical Engineering, 8（5）：1-14
（14） Ju YP, Qin RH, Kipouros T, Parks G, Zhang CH, 2016, A high-dimensional design optimisation method for centrifugal impellers, IMechE Part A: Journal of Power and Energy, 230（3）：272-288
（15） Ju YP, Zhang CH, 2016, Robust design optimization method for centrifugal impellers under surface roughness uncertainties due to blade fouling, Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering, 29（2）：301-314