Name: Yazhong Jiang

Title： Lecturer

Tel：  15010928005

Email：jiangyazhong@whut.edu.cn

Introduction

Dr. Jiang now works at Department of Mechanics and Engineering Sciences, School of Physics and Mechanics in Wuhan University of Technology. He graduated from Beihang University (Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics), and worked at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University as a Postdoc researcher before he joined Wuhan University of Technology. Dr. Jiang’s research interests include (1) hypersonic aerodynamics, (2) rarefied gas dynamics and related simulation methods, and (3) advanced numerical schemes for computational fluid dynamics. These investigations will provide theories and methods to solve the key problems in fluid mechanics related to high-speed aerospace vehicles and engines. Dr. Jiang is a member of Youth Working Committee of China Aerodynamics Society, and has been invited as reviewers for SCI journals including Physics of Fluids, AIAA Journal, Shock Waves, and Acta Mechanica Sinica. Dr. Jiang is the principal investigator of a youth project supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China.

Education Background

Ph.D in Fluid Mechanics, Beihang University, China (11/2018)

B.S. in Engineering Mechanics / Flight Vehicle Design and Engineering, Beihang University, China (7/2012)

Professional experience

2021.09-present: Lecturer, Department of Mechanics and Engineering Sciences, Wuhan University of Technology

2018.12-2021.05: Postdoc, Department of Mechanical Engineering & Department of Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Concurrent Academic service

2024-present: Committee Member, Youth Working Committee of China Aerodynamics Society

2017-present: Peer Reviewer for Physics of Fluids, AIAA Journal, Shock Waves, Acta Mechanica Sinica, and Aerodynamic Research & Experiment

Areas of Research Interests/ Research Projects

His research interests focus mainly on fluid mechanics and related numerical simulation methods, including (1) hypersonic aerodynamics, (2) rarefied gas dynamics and gas-kinetic theory, (3) shock waves and detonation waves, (4) discontinuity-capturing numerical schemes for hyperbolic conservation laws, and (5) developing in-house code for the simulations of both continuum and rarefied flows.

He is the principal investigator of the following research projects:

1) Investigation on the efficient stochastic particle simulation method for hypersonic nonequilibrium flows. (2024~2026, supported by “National Natural Science Foundation of China”)

2) Discretization error and convergence behavior of the Fokker-Planck particle simulation method for nonequilibrium flows. (2024, supported by “the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities”)

3) Numerical investigation of shock–shock interactions in hypersonic rarefied gas flows. (2022~2023, supported by “the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities”)

Honors and Awards

2024: Second Prize in the 12th Young Teachers’ Teaching Competition at Wuhan University of Technology

2022: Third Prize in the 2nd Curriculum Ideology and Politics Micro-Lecture Competition at Wuhan University of Technology

Academic Achievement

Book Publication: 1 (Springer)

Journal Publications: 11 (including 1 JFM, 3POF, 1AIAA J)

Conference Publications: 2

Citations: 127 Google Scholar (April 15, 2025)

H-index: 6 Google Scholar (April 15, 2025)

www.researchgate.net/profile/Yazhong-Jiang

(* - corresponding author):

[1] Wen Chih-Yung, Jiang Yazhong, Shi Lisong. Space–Time Conservation Element and Solution Element Method. Springer, 2023

[2] Jiang Yazhong, Shi Lisong*, Wen Chih-Yung. Analysis and applications of the upwind conservation element and solution element scheme for compressible flow simulations. Physics of Fluids, 2024, 36: 126150

[3] Jiang Yazhong, Wen Chih-Yung*. On the conservative property of particle-based Fokker–Planck method for rarefied gas flows. Physics of Fluids, 2020, 32: 127108

[4] Liang Yu, Jiang Yazhong*, Wen Chih-Yung, Liu Yao. Interaction of a planar shock wave and a water droplet embedded with a vapour cavity. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2020, 885: R6

[5] Jiang Yazhong*, Ling Yuxing, Zhang Shikang. Investigation of the inverse magnus effect on a rotating sphere in hypersonic rarefied flow. Applied Sciences, 2024, 14: 1042

[6] Jiang Yazhong, Wen Chih-Yung*, Zhang Deliang. Space–time conservation element and solution element method and its applications. AIAA Journal, 2020, 58(12): 5408−5430

[7] Jiang Yazhong, Gao Zhenxun*, Lee Chun-Hian. Particle simulation of nonequilibrium gas flows based on ellipsoidal statistical Fokker-Planck model. Computers and Fluids, 2018, 170: 106−120

[8] Jiang Yazhong, Gao Zhenxun*, Jiang Chongwen, Lee Chun-Hian. Hypersonic aeroheating characteristics of leading edges with different nose radii. Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, 2017, 31(3): 538−548

[9] Liu Wenbin, Zhang Jinbai*, Jiang Yazhong, Chen Laiwen, Lee Chun-Hian. DSMC study of hypersonic rarefied flow using the Cercignani–Lampis–Lord model and a molecular-dynamics-based scattering database. Physics of Fluids, 2021, 33: 072003

[10] Wang Jiahong, Chen Laiwen*, Jiang Yazhong, Lee Chun-Hian. Particle simulation of anode-layer Hall thruster plume using anisotropic scattering model. Acta Astronautica, 2020, 175: 19−31

[11] Wang Jiahong, Jiang Yazhong, Chen Laiwen*, Lee Chun-Hian. An effective Xe⁺–Xe interaction potential for electric propulsion systems. Journal of Applied Physics, 2020, 127: 093302

[12] Jiang Yazhong*, Gao Zhenxun, Jiang Chongwen, Lee Chun-Hian. Error estimation for CFD aeroheating prediction under rarefied flow condition. Proceedings of the 29th International Symposium on Rarefied Gas Dynamics. AIP Publishing, 2014: 318−323

[13] Wang Jiahong, Jiang Yazhong, Chen Laiwen*, Lee Chun-Hian. A numerical study on plasma plumes of an ion thruster using a decoupled PIC–MCC method. AIAA Propulsion and Energy Forum. AIAA, 2019: 3993

[14] 姜亚中, 蒋崇文*, 高振勋, 李椿萱. 水平起降两级入轨系统的质量估算方法及应用. 北京航空航天大学学报, 2014, 40(4): 473−478