Member
Advisor
Guest Professor
Researchers
 

Zheng Chen

 

Contact

Email: cz@pku.edu.cn

Phone: 86-10-62766232

 

Education:

Ph.D.  Princeton University,  Jan. 2009

M.A.   Princeton University, Apr. 2006

M.E.    Tsinghua University, Jul. 2003 

B.E.    Tsinghua University, Jul. 2001

 

Work Experience:

Peking University, Associate Professor (wth tenure),  Jan. 2015-Present 

Peking University, Professor (without tenure),  Jan. 2012-Dec. 2014

Peking University, Associate Professor (wthout tenure)      Jan. 2009-Dec. 2011

 

Research Interests:

Combustion and Propulsion, Energy and Fuels, Flame Dynamics, Chemical Kinetics and Mechanism Reduction, Multi-scale Modeling

 

Professional Activities and Associations:
2017-2022, Editorial Board,  Combustion and Flame
2017-2020, Editorial Board,  Chinese Journal of Aeronautics
2017-2020, Editorial Board,  Acta Aeronautica et Astronautica Sinica (in Chinese)
2018, Program Co-Chair, The China National Symposium on Combustion
2017, Program Co-Chair, The China National Symposium on Combustion
Research
2018, Colloquium Co-Chair, Laminar Flames, 37th International Symposium on Combustion
2016, Colloquium Co-Chair, Laminar Flames, 36th International Symposium on Combustion
2016-present, Scientific Committee Member of International Workshop on Near-limit Flames
2012-present, Organization committee member of the International Workshop on Flame Chemistry
2003-present, Member of the Combustion Institute


Honors and Awards:

Chung-Hua Wu Outstanding Young Scholar Award, Chinese Society of Engineering Thermophysics, 2017
The Young Investigator Prize, Asian-Pacific Conference on Combustion, 2015
Excellent Young Researcher, National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2013

Outstanding Young Scholar, Central Organization Department, 2012
Bernard Lewis Fellowship, International Combustion Institute, 2008

 

Publications:

[1] Z. Chen*, “On the accuracy of laminar flame speeds measured from outwardly propagating spherical flames: methane/air at normal temperature and pressure,” Combustion and Flame, 162 (2015) 2442-2453. 

[2] M. Faghih, Z. Chen*, “The constant-volume propagating spherical flame method for laminar flame speed measurement,” Science Bulletin, 61 (2016) 1296-1310. 

 [3] P. Dai, C. Qi, Z. Chen*, “Effects of initial temperature on autoignition and detonation development in dimethyl ether/air mixtures with temperature gradient,” Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 36 (2017) 3643-3650. 

[4] Z. Chen*, “Effects of radiation on large-scale spherical flame propagation,” Combustion and Flame, 183 (2017) 66-74. 

[5] Yu, C. Qi, Z. Chen*, “Effects of flame propagation speed and chamber size on end-gas autoignition,” Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 36 (2017) 3533-3541.

[6] W. Zhang, M. Faghih, X. Gou, Z. Chen*, “Numerical study on the transient evolution of a premixed cool flame,” Combustion and Flame, 187 (2018) 129-136. 

 

 

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