Huayang Zhu

Research Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Huayang ZhuDr. Zhu is currently working primarily on modeling chemically and electrochemically reacting fluid flow for fuel cells and batteries. Dr. Zhu received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from University of Maryland-College Park, BS in Mechanics and MS in Fluid Mechanics from Peking University, China.

Dr. Zhu has been developing the theory, modeling, and computational software for a wide array of chemically-reacting fluid-flow problems including: combustion, catalytic processes, chemically-reacting reservoir flows, high-temperature MIEC membrane reactors, solid oxide fuel cell systems, and batteries.  Recent efforts include new approaches and software to represent the coupled effects of electrochemical kinetics, thermal reforming kinetics, porous-media transport, and fluid flows.

These capabilities are also incorporated into system-level models, which are applied to evaluate and optimize solid-oxide fuel-cell systems and batteries.  Dr. Zhu is also studying the heterogeneous chemical reaction mechanisms for the fuel processes, catalytic combustion, and electrochemical systems for clean-energy power-conversion technologies.

Contact

Brown Hall W410C
303-384-2032
hzhu@mines.edu

Publications

  • E. Vollestad, H. Zhu, and R.J. Kee. “Interpretation of defect and gas-phase fluxes through mixed-conducting ceramics using Nernst-Planck-Poisson and integral formulations,” J. Electrochem. Soc., 161: F114-F124, 2014.
  • H. Zhu, S. Bhavaraju, and R.J. Kee. “Computational model of a sodium-copper-iodide rechargeable battery,” Electrochem. Acta, 112:629-639, 2013.
  • H. Zhu, Y. Zhang, M. Xu, and R.J. Kee, “Droplet vaporization characteristics of multicomponent mixtures of methanol and gasoline surrogate in opposed stagnation flows,” Proc. Combust. Ins., 34:1545-1552, 2013.
  • R.J. Kee, H. Zhu, R.J. Braun, and T.L. Vincent. “Modeling the steady state and dynamic characteristics of solid oxide fuel cells,” in Advances in Chemical Engineering: Fuel Cell Engineering, Vol. 41. Ed. Kai Sundmacher, Elsevier, Pages: 331-381, 2012.
  • H. Zhu, A. Kromp, E. Ivers-Tifee, O. Deutschmann, and R.J. Kee, “The influence of detailed surface chemistry on solid oxide fuel cell electrochemical impedance spectra.” J. Electrochem. Soc., 159:F255-F266, 2012.