My brief CV

Last updated on 2012.

A brief introduction of me is given below. For a full CV, please contact me through email.

Research interests

Acoustic cavitation: radial oscillations of gas bubbles in the liquids; heat and mass transfer across bubble interfaces; liquid compressibility effects; acoustic cavitation in viscoelastic materials; bubble dynamics under multiple-frequency acoustic excitations; ultrasonic degassing of molten alloys

Hydraulic turbine: cavitation enhancement of silt erosion; fluid structure  interaction

Numerical simulations: direct numerical simulation of bubbly flow based on front tracking methods; human upper airway simulations

Selected awards

2011    Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad (US$ 6000). Introduction; Research News (School of Engineering, University of Warwick) 

2008    Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Warwick Innovative Manufacturing Research Centre (WIMRC) Ph.D. Studentship (R.ESCM 9217, ￡79,987). The whole project (PI: Prof.Shengcai Li) featured in The Engineer; News letter of School of Engineering (Warwick University); Final project report.

2008    Zhonghua Wu Prize for Excellent Student (CNY¥ 2000).Renmin Ribao;       
          China Science Daily; Journal of Engineering Thermophysics.  

Selected refereed journals

1.      Zhang, Y. and Li, S. C. (2012). “Effects of liquid compressibility on radial oscillations of gas bubbles in liquids,” Journal of Hydrodynamics, accepted.

2.      Zhang, Y. and Li, S. C. (2010). “Notes on radial oscillations of gas bubbles in liquids: Thermal effects,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 128, EL306-309.Link

3.      Zhang, Y. and Li, S. C. (2010). “Virtual grid-based front tracking method,” Engineering Computations, 27, 896-908.Link

4.      Zhang, Y. and Li, S. C. (2010). “Direct numerical simulation of collective bubble behavior,” Journal of Hydrodynamics, 22 (Supplement 1), 827-831.Link

Selected Conference papers

1.      Zhang, Y. and Li, S. C. (2011). “Improved theory for near-resonance bubble rectified diffusion with applications,” 2011 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, Orlando, Florida, USA, October 18-21, 2011 (Poster).

2.      Li, S. C. and Zhang, Y. (2011). “Dynamic-frequency technique for speeding up bubble growth,” Proceedings of WIMRC 3^rd International Cavitation Forum, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK, July 4-6, 2011.

3.      Zhang, Y. and Li, S. C. (2010). “Direct numerical simulation of collective bubble behavior,” Proceedings of 9th International Conference on Hydrodynamics, Edited by Y. S. Wu, S. Q. Dai, H. Liu, et al., China Ocean Press, ISBN 978-7-5027-7834-7, Shanghai, China, Oct 11-15, 2010. Also in Journal of Hydrodynamics, 2010, Volume 22, Issue 5, Supplement 1, 827-831.

4.      Zhang, Y., Liu, S., Wu, Y. and Yang, J. (2006). “Calculation of turbulent flow through a Francis turbine with 3D Guide Vanes,” Proceedings I of 1st International Conference on Hydropower Technology & Key Equipment, Beijing, China, Oct 28-30, 2006, pp.351-354.

About this blog

Nowadays, cavitation phenomenon is increasingly employed in a diverse range of applications, particularly in biomedical and chemical engineering. For therapeutics, cavitation induced by ultrasound irradiations is an important mechanism for many biomedical treatments, e.g. lithotripsy, tissue ablation and transdermal drug transportations. For chemical engineering, a new discipline termed “sonochemistry”, which mainly studies the effects induced by cavitation activities (e.g. nucleation, growth and collapse of bubbles under sonic waves) for facilitating chemical reaction speed, is being intensively investigated by researchers. 

The purpose of this blog is to introduce both the physical principles and the emerging technologies involving with cavitation to the public. On this blog, I will not only forward the latest information and technologies of the cavitation research to the readers in an accessible style but also provide many useful resources and links for those professional researchers. Owing to interdisciplinary natures of many cavitation-induced effects, I hope that new connections and collaborations with other researchers can also be established through this blog. 

I got to know the term "cavitation" when I was a final-year undergraduate of Tsinghua University (China). Later, as a first-year master student of Tsinghua University, I fortunately participated a joint project between Tsinghua University and Warwick University (UK) to investigate the mechanism of a newly identified cavitation phenomenon in Francis turbines of Three Gorges hydropower station, which is the largest one across the world (Total Capacity: 18,200,000 KW, figure from the website of China Three Gorges Cooperation). In 2008, I  became a Ph.D. student of Cavitation Research Group in Warwick University with a three-year Ph.D. studentship under the support of EPSRC WIMRC project “Non-Surgical Cavitation-Effect Destruction of Kidney Stones” to develop a new technology for kidney stone crushing based on cavitation-induced effects. In a word, nearly all my researches during the past several years are related with cavitation, covering both hydrodynamic and acoustic cavitation. Through those activities, I am totally absorbed in cavitation phenomenon, which is the central topic of this blog. 

For more information about me, please refer to my linkedin.