Introduction
Liang, XinGang，Mr., Born in 1962. He is professor in the School of Aerospace Engineering. He was the executive dean from 2004 to 2016. He was a visiting scholar in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California at Berkeley from Mar.1997 to Mar. 1998, and was a Guest professor, Institute of Fluid Sciences, Tohoku University from Jan. 2006 to Mar. 2006.
Education background
Sept. 1980- Aug. 1985, Undergraduate study in the Department of Engineering Thermophysics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China, received B. Sci. in 1985.
Sept. 1985 – Sept. 1991, postgraduate study in the Department of Engineering Thermophysics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China, received Ph.D. in 1991.
Experience
Aug. 1999 to present: Professor, Department of Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University (THU)
May 2004 to June 2016: Executive Dean, School of Aerospace Engineering, THU
Sept. 2000 to May 2004: Deputy Head, Department of Engineering Mechanics, THU
Sept. 1999 to Dec. 2000: Director, Institute of Engineering Thermophysics, THU
Jan. 1995 to Jan. 1997: Vice director, Institute of Engineering Thermophysics, THU
Jan. 1995 to July 1999: Associate professor, Department of Engineering Mechanics, THU
Oct. 1991 to Dec. 1994: Lecturer, Department of Engineering Mechanics, THU
Concurrent Academic
•Editor, Microscale and Nanoscale Thermophysics Engineering
•Associate Editor, Science in China – Technology Science.
•Editor, Manned Spaceflight (in Chinese)
Editor, Chinese Space Science and Technology (in Chinese)
•Gusset Editor, the special proceedings issue of the International Journal of Thermophysics for the 7th Asian Thermal Properties Conference, Hefei, Anhui, China, Aug. 23 – 28, 2004.
•Member of Thermal Physical Property Section, the Chinese Society of Metrology.
•Conference Co-Chairs and Scientific Committee Members，4th, 5th , 6th ,7th ASME Int. Conf. on Nanochannels, Microchannels and Minichannels.
•‘Lead Scientist’, 6th, 7th, 8th World Conf. on Experimental Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics.
•Organizing Committee member, International Forum on Heat Transfer (IFHT2004), November 24th(Wed) - 26th(Fri), 2004, Kyoto, Japan.
International Scientific Committee Members，Int. Conf. on Flow Dynamics.
•Conference General Secretary, The 7th Asian Thermophysical Properties Conference 23-28 August 2004, Hefei & Huangshan, Anhui, China.
Areas of Research Interests/ Research Projects
He was the principal investigator over ten National 863 plans project, NSFC funds, and funds from industrials. His major research interests include but not limited to the followings: heat transfer (micro-scale heat transfer, enhanced heat transfer, electronic device cooling, new theory of heat); thermal control and management of aircraft.
Research Status
The research on thermal analyses and heat transfer enhancement is related to the cooling of MEMS and electronic devices, diesel engine, techniques for high heat flux density and heat transfer enhancement theory.
Thermal management of flying vehicles include the investigation of the ground-based simulation method of flow and heat transfer, the ventilation in cabins, and the thermal management techniques for the fuel of air engine and battery that can fully utilizes the heat sink resources and control the temperature.
Optimization theory is based on the new concept of entransy. The entransy decrease principle, the thermal equilibrium criteria based on entransy, the entransy balance equation with work process, the extreme principles for convection and thermal radiation were developed. The principles can be used to optimize the heat transfer process.
The investigations of the microscale heat conduction by molecular dynamics simulation, phonon theory focus on size and interface effects in nano-films, superlattices, nano-tubes, polycrystalline and micro structures. The purpose is to understanding the mechanisms behind the phenomena, such as size effect, rectification, due to the confinements on phonon transport by boundaries and interfaces.
Honors And Awards
second prize of National Natural Science Award: Size effect of micro/nanoscale heat transfer and its physical mechanism, 2011
Recipients of special government allowances, 2013
Education Achievement Award, Beijing government, 2006
Distinguished teaching awards for young teacher, Tsinghua University, 2006.
Academic Achievement
Published more than 200 journal papers and gave more than ten invited talks and lectures on international conferences and forums. Received Natural Science Award (1st class) from the Ministry of Education of China in 2007, and from National Natural Science Award in 2011.
