Hangyu Chen

Postdoctoral Fellow

Department of Engineering Mechanics

School of Aerospace, Tsinghua University

Beijing 100084, China

Email: chenhangyu1henry@163.com

Education

Ø Ph.D (2018 - 2022)

Chemical & Process Engineering, University of Leeds, The United Kingdom

Supervisor: Dr. Timothy Hunter

Ø Master student (2015 - 2018)

Thermal Energy Engineering, School of Mechanical and Transportation Engineering, China University of Petroleum (Beijing)

Supervisor: Dr. Jinya Zhang

Ø Bachelor of Economics (2012-2015)

Ø International Economy and Trade, China University of Petroleum (Beijing)

Ø Bachelor of Science (2011-2015)

Thermal Energy Engineering, China University of Petroleum (Beijing)

Experience

Ø Software development project - DigiPac, Structure Vision Ltd, 2019.06 - 2022.12.

Research Interests

Ø Multiphase flow in porous media and micro-channels

Ø LBM-DEM coupled algorithm and its applications

Ø Sedimentation and adsorption of colloids

Ø Numerical study on air flotation oil removal

Ø Numerical study on solid-liquid phase change and heat transfer

Honors and Awards

Ø 2023 Shuimu Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship

Ø 2018 China University of Petroleum (Beijing) Excellent M.S student

Publications

In Journal

1. H.Y. Chen, M. Wang*. Non-monotonic Ice-Core Thawing in Water Pool Driven by Competition between Anomaly-triggered Chaotic Flow and Normal Natural Convection. Journal of Fluid Mechanics In Press, 2026

2. Y.F. Huang, Z. Tian, H. Chen, W. Liu and M. Wang*. Electrokinetic transport in saturated and unsaturated porous media: A pore-scale view. Advances in Colloid and Interface Science 349: 103755, 2026

3. Guang Yang, Hangyu Chen, Moran Wang. Lattice Boltzmann model for immiscible three-phase flows with phase change, Physical Review E, 111(6): 065310, 2025

4. Hangyu Chen, Thomas C. Sykes, Xiaodong Jia, Michael Fairweather, Timothy N. Hunter. Simulation of bidisperse colloidal centrifugal sedimentation using a mixture viscosity model. Physics of Fluids, 35(12):123306-1-123306-14, 2023.

5. Hangyu Chen, Xiaodong Jia, Michael Fairweather, Timothy N. Hunter. Characterising the sedimentation of bidisperse colloidal silica using analytical centrifugation, Advanced Powder Technology, 34(2): 103950, 2023

6. Jinya Zhang, Hangyu Chen, Ye Zhou, Guangda Cao. Simulation on the process of single bubble floating and colliding oil droplet based on improved three-component pseudo-potential Boltzmann method, Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 198: 108119, 2021

7. Hangyu Chen, Jinya Zhang, Yongxue Zhang, Zhichao Wei. Simulation on a gravity-driven dripping of droplet into micro-channels using the lattice Boltzmann method, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 126: 61-71, 2018