Conference Co-Chair
Prof. Zhenping Feng
School of Energy and Power Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University
Dr. Feng is a professor at the Institute of Turbomachinery, School of Energy & Power Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, where he received his academic degrees of BS, MS and PhD, respectively. He has been a visiting scholar at Institute of Space System, University of Stuttgart, Germany, from Nov. 1993 to Nov. 1994, and a DAAD visiting Professor at Propulsion Lab, Berlin University of Technology, Germany, in later 1998.
His research focus is mainly on the turbomachinery aerodynamics and design optimization, advanced cooling technology for turbomachinery, aero-thermal coupled performance in turbine cascades, steam turbine and wet steam condensing flows, etc. At present, he leads the Shaanxi Engineering Lab of Turbomachinery and Power Equipment, and also the AECC CAE – XJTU United Innovation Center for Advanced Turbine Optimization Design Technology of Aero Engine.
He was awarded the Excellent University Teacher, and two National Awards for Teaching Achievement by the Ministry of Education of China, three Provincial and Ministerial Awards for Science and Technology Achievements, and also a SAGE Best Paper Prize 2018 by Journal of Power and Energy, Proceedings of IMechE.
Conference Co-Chair
Prof. Hong Yan
School of Power and Energy, Northwestern Polytechnical University
Hong Yan, Professor and Vice Dean of School of Power & Energy at Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU), received her Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from NPU in 1997. Then she conducted post-doctoral research in Tsinghua University. In 1999, she went to the United States and performed research at Rutgers University and Wright State University as a postdoctor, later becoming research professor. In 2011, she joined the faculty of NPU as a full Professor of Aerospace Engineering. She is an AIAA Associate Fellow.
Her research areas include supersonic flow control by energy deposition, supersonic boundary layer/shock wave interaction, gas-turbine combustor design, spray and atomization.
Review Chair
Prof. Francesco Contino
Institute of Mechanics, Materials and Civil Engineering, UCLouvain
Francesco Contino focuses his research effort on four strands: Energy systems, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations of reactive systems, Real Driving Emissions and Robust Optimisation — optimisation combined with uncertainty quantification. About energy systems, he works at micro and macro levels to understand what are the key drivers to help us succeed the energy transition. For numerical simulations, he has developed a reduction method (TDAC), in collaboration with Politecnico di Milano, to use detailed mechanisms in CFD simulation; it is included in the official release of OpenFOAM. Francesco Contino also works on real driving emissions of passenger cars and heavy duty; he includes uncertainties in emission factors and uses Portable Emissions Measurement System (PEMS). Finally, he works on making robust design optimisation affordable by working on efficient optimiser and fast uncertainty quantification methods.
Review Co-Chair
Prof. Anestis Kalfas
Mechanical Engineering Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Anestis Kalfas is a Professor in Turbomachinery. He belongs to the teaching staff of the Laboratory of Fluid Mechanics and Turbomachinery of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
Anestis Kalfas received his PhD in Turbomachinery Aerodynamics from Cranfield University in 1994 and his Dipl.-Ing. Mech. Eng. Aristotle University of his native Thessaloniki. He worked as a Research Associate at the Whittle Lab., University of Cambridge and as an Aircraft Engineer at the Hellenic Air Force. He has been a Senior Scientist at the Turbomachinery Laboratory of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, since July 2000 where he lectured in Turbomachinery Design.
Dr Kalfas is active in the areas of axial steam and gas-turbine aerodynamics, gas-turbine performance and power plant optimization, boundary layer transition and turbulence and novel aerodynamic probe technology.
Local Managing Co-Director
Prof. Jun Li
School of Energy and Power Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University
Local Managing Co-Director
Prof. Dingxi Wang
School of Power and Energy, Northwestern Polytechnical University
