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Yuying Yan

Professor, Chair in Thermofluids Engineering, Deputy Head of Energy & Sustainability Research Division, Head of Building Services Research Group, Faculty of Engineering

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Professor Yan's research covers wide-ranging aspects of thermofluids flow and heat transfer encountered in engineering thermal systems and the built environment. In addition, he is also doing… read more

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Professor Yan's research covers wide-ranging aspects of thermofluids flow and heat transfer encountered in engineering thermal systems and the built environment. In addition, he is also doing multi-disciplinary research on biomimetics of natural functional surfaces with fluids interactions. He is a member of EPSRC peer Review College, editorial board member of Journal Bionic Engineering, and deputy general secretary of International Society of Bionic Engineering. He is also a member to the UK CIBSE Patrons Steering Committee, UK Network of Sustainable Innovation of Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning (SIRAC), UK Heat Exchanger Action Group (HEXAG), and Process Intensification (PIN), Micro and Nano Fluids (MNF), and management committee member of the UK Biomimetics Network for Industrial Sustainability (BIONIS). Prof. Yan was the Chairman of the 1st international Symposium of Biomimetic Functional Surfaces with Fluids Interactions (Biomimetic-FSFI) 2009, and Co-Chairman of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd International Conference of Bionic Engineering in 2006, 2008, and 2010, respectively. He has also been a member of the international academic adversary committees in a number of international conferences including Heat Transfer, Multiphase flow, Micro & Nano Fluids, etc., since 2003.

Yuying's research has been funded by the EPSRC, Royal Society, UK emda SC iNet and the UK Industrial companies including Siemens, Thermacore, etc. His current research projects/topics include:

q Heat transfer enhancement, developing new types of compact heat exchangers and heat pipes;

q Droplets/bubbles behaviours on micro structured functional (wetting or super-hydrophobic) surfaces

q Flow boiling in microchannels

q Dehumidification for HVAC

q Thermoelectric generations for engineering applications

q Electrohydrodynamic (EHD) and electroosmosis effects on two-phase flow

q Efficient cooling technology for cooling hot surfaces such as turbo-machinery blades

q Computational modelling of multi-phase flow and heat transfer based on conventional CFD, lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) and molecular dynamics (MD) method.

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