ZHOU Hua   Assistant Professor

Email：huazhou@tsinghua.edu.cn

Address：Room 5302, Building A5, Changping Research Base, Tsinghua University

Education

2012.09 - 2018.01, Engineering Thermophysics, Tsinghua University, Ph.D

2008.09 - 2012.07, School of Vehicle and Mobility, Tsinghua University, Bachelor

Professional Experience

2020.12 – Present, Assistant Professor, Tsinghua University

2019.03 – 2020.12, Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of New South Wales

Research Interests

Numerical simulation and modeling of turbulent reacting flows and two-phase flows

Turbulent combustion simulation and diagnostics, sensitivity and uncertainty quantification

Hydrogen engine

Research Overview

Research has been conducted on key issues such as high - altitude ignition, lean blow - off, and pollutant emissions in aero engines, with the focus on studying the mechanisms and modeling of turbulent combustion.

Awards and Honors

Received the Asia-Pacific Young Researchers Award in 2017 (awarded to 5 individuals every two years).

Won the Excellent Paper Award of the Combustion Division of the Chinese Society of Engineering Thermophysics in 2020 and 2022 (5 papers awarded each year), and featured in "Combustion Science Advances" (https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/WHfaTxvOy\_m6a2990m7PIg).

Selected as the featured article in the Physics of Fluids journal in 2022, and covered by the American Institute of Physics (AIP) (https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/ar4pqppbujWM9v2gfQJ9TQ).

Academic Achievements

Published 45 SCI indexed papers in academic journals of combustion, fluid dynamics, and aerospace propulsion in the past five years, including 12 in Combustion and Flame/Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 3 in Journal of Fluid Mechanics/Physics of Fluids, and 6 in Journal of Propulsion and Power/AIAA Journal.

Invited to contribute a chapter as the first author for “Coarse Graining Turbulence: Modeling and Data - Driven Approaches and Their Applications”, Cambridge University Press.

Developed predictive models for ignition performance, NOx emissions, and flashback risks, leading to 8 software copyrights and advancing the development of domestic industrial simulation software.

Delivered keynote speech at the Seventh National Youth Combustion Conference and invited talks at the Transportation Energy and Intelligent Power Conference, the Forum for Young Scholars in Aerospace Vehicle Engineering, and the Fluid Mechanics Youth Academic Salon.