Academic Staff

BSc (USTC); PhD (UCAS)

Area of Specialization

Hypersonic air-breathing propulsion, Detonation, Supersonic combustion, High-speed multiphase flow, Wind-tunnel experiment

Short Description

Dr Zhang received his Bachelor degree in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from the Department of Modern Mechanics, University of Science and Technology of China in 2015, and his PhD degree in Fluid Mechanics from Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2020. Before joining the Department of Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering as a Research Assistant Professor, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the same department.

Recruitment

Dr Zhang is recruiting research assistants with backgrounds in detonation, supersonic combustion and scramjet inlet design. Anyone interested please send his/her CV by email.

Selected Publications

1. Zhang, Z., Liu, Y., Wen, C.* (2022) Mechanisms of the destabilized Mach reflection of inviscid oblique detonation waves before an expansion corner. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 940, A29.
2. Zhang, Z., Wen, C., Yuan, C., Liu, Y.*, Han, G., Wang, C., Jiang, Z. (2022) An experimental study of formation of stabilized oblique detonation waves in a combustor. Combustion and Flame, 237, 111868.
3. Zhang, Z., Wen, C., Zhang, W., Liu, Y.*, Jiang, Z. (2022) A theoretical method for solving shock relations coupled with chemical equilibrium and its applications. Chinese Journal of Aeronautics, 25(6), 47–62.
4. Zhang, Z., Wen, C., Zhang, W., Liu, Y.*, Jiang, Z. (2021) Formation of stabilized oblique detonation waves in a combustor. Combustion and Flame, 223, 423–436.
5. Jiang, Z.*, Zhang, Z., Liu, Y., Wang, C., Luo, C. (2021) Criteria for hypersonic airbreathing propulsion and its experimental verification. Chinese Journal of Aeronautics, 34(3), 94–104.
6. Zhang, W., Zhang, Z., Jiang, Z., Han, X., Liu, Y.*, Wang, C. (2021) Numerical investigation of free oblique detonation wave induced by non-intrusive energy deposition. AIP Advances, 11, 125119.
7. Zhang, Z.J., Wen, C.Y., Liu, Y.F.*, Zhang, D.L., Jiang, Z.L. (2020) Effects of different particle size distributions on aluminum particle–air detonation. AIAA Journal, 58(7), 3115–3128.
8. Zhang, Z., Ma, K., Zhang, W., Han, X., Liu, Y.*, Jiang, Z. (2020) Numerical investigation of a Mach 9 oblique detonation engine with fuel pre-injection. Aerospace Science and Technology, 105, 106054.
9. Teng, H., Liu, S., Zhang, Z.* (2020) Unsteady combustion mode with a super-high frequency induced by a curved shock. Physics of Fluids, 32, 116101.
10. Wang, K., Zhang, Z., Yang, P., Teng, H.* (2020) Numerical study on reflection of an oblique detonation wave on an outward turning wall. Physics of Fluids, 32, 046101.
11. Ma, K., Zhang, Z., Liu, Y.*, Jiang, Z. (2020) Aerodynamic principles of shock-induced combustion ramjet engines. Aerospace Science and Technology, 103, 105901.
12. Zhang, Z., Wen, C., Liu, Y.*, Zhang, D., Jiang, Z. (2019) Application of CE/SE method to gas-particle two-phase detonations under an Eulerian-Lagrangian framework. Journal of Computational Physics, 394, 18–40.
13. Fang, Y., Zhang, Z.*, Hu, Z. (2019) Effects of boundary layer on wedge-induced oblique detonation structures in hydrogen-air mixtures. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 44, 23429–23435.
14. Fang, Y., Zhang, Z., Hu, Z.*, Deng, X. (2019) Initiation of oblique detonation waves induced by a blunt wedge in stoichiometric hydrogen-air mixtures. Aerospace Science and Technology, 92, 676–684.
15. Peng, J., Zhang, Z., Hu, Z.*, Jiang, Z. (2019) A theoretical and computational study of the vibration excitation on the transition criteria of shock wave reflections. Aerospace Science and Technology, 89, 299–306.
16. Liu, W., Guo, D.*, Zhang, Z., Chen, D., Yang, G. (2019) Effects of bogies on the wake flow of a high-speed train. Applied Sciences, 9, 759.