Yuwen Zhang

Yuwen Zhang is an American scientist and engineer. He is currently Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering in the University of Missouri in Columbia, MO.

Yuwen Zhang
Citizenship	U.S.
Alma mater	Xi'an Jiaotong University, University of Connecticut
Known for	Heat Transfer
Awards	Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award
Scientific career
Fields	Mechanical Engineering
Institutions	University of Missouri

Education and Career

Yuwen Zhang received his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Connecticut (1998). Dr. Zhang is a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at University of Missouri (MU). Prior to joining faculty at MU as an Associate Professor in 2003, he worked as a Research Scientist in the University of Connecticut (1999-2000), a Senior Engineer at Thermoflow, Inc. (2000), and an Assistant Professor at the New Mexico State University (2001-2003).

Research

Dr. Zhang’s research interests are in the areas of thermal/fluid sciences, advanced materials processing, phase change heat transfer and heat pipes, inverse heat transfer problems, ultrafast ultra-intense laser materials processing, heat transfer in energy systems, and micro- and nanoscale heat transfer. During his career at the University of Missouri and New Mexico State University, Dr. Zhang has been the principal investigator or a co-principal investigator on $1.9M of funding from Office of Naval Research, Air Force Research Laboratory, Ball Aerospace Inc., National Science Foundation, U.S. Army Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training, & Instrumentation, and the University of Missouri Research Board. He has co-authored an undergraduate senior/graduate textbook entitled Transport Phenomena in Multiphase Systems (ISBN 0-12-370610-6, with A. Faghri, by Elsevier), which is the first textbook to truly address transport phenomena in the context of all phase changes among solid, liquid and vapor. He also authored over 130 papers, including over 80 journal papers. His second book entitled Advanced Heat and Mass Transfer (by A. Faghri, Y. Zhang, and J.R. Howell) is scheduled for publication in 2008.

Awards

Dr. Zhang has received many awards including the Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research (2002), the Computational Research Award from Department of Mechanical Engineering in New Mexico State University (2003), and Faculty Fellow Award from the College of Engineering in University of Missouri. He is listed in Marquis Who’s Who in Science and Engineering, as well as Who’s Who in America. He has been reviewers for over 28 archival journals and numerous conferences, and served as a panelist in proposal review panels for National Science Foundation and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). He is a Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Associate Fellow of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), and member of American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) and Directed Energy Professional Society (DEPS).

External links

• Biographical information at the University of Missouri.