Biography
Prof. Lixing Zhou
Prof. Lixing Zhou
Tsinghua University, China
Biography: 
Dr. Lixing Zhou, born in November, 1932, is a Senior Professor, Ph.D., in the Department of Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He is a leading scientist in the China computational multiphase turbulent flow and combustion community, also is well known in the word multiphase-flow and combustion community. He got his Bs.C. degree from the Department of Power Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China in 1953 and Ph.D. degree from the Department of Physics and Mechanics, Leningrad Polytechnic University, former Soviet Union in 1961. He became a lecturer in 1961 and served as the head of the Section of Thermal Science from 1961 to 1966. After so-called “cultural revolution” he was promoted to a full professor and a supervisor of Ph.D. students by the State Department of China in 1985. He served as a deputy director of the Academic Committee of the State Key Laboratory of Coal Combustion of Tsinghua University in 1994-2003. He has worked as a visiting professor at the Catholic University of America, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Brigham Young University during the time period of 1987 to 1990, and at the Ohio State University during the time period of 1998 to 2002.
He has served as the head of Multiphase Fluid and Non-Newtonian Fluid Dynamics, the Chinese Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (1994-2004), a member of board of directors, the Chinese Society of Engineering Thermophysics (namely Thermal Science) (1994-1999), the Chinese Section of the Combustion Institute (1994-2008), a member of the Governing Board, International Conference on Multiphase Flow (2001-2007), the Chairman of International Symposium on Multiphase, Non-Newtonian and Reacting Fluid Flows (1997-2004) and the Executive Chairman of the Second and Third International Symposiums on Coal Combustion (1991 to 1995), and now still serves as the members of the scientific committee of many international conferences on multiphase flows and combustion, the member of editorial board of “Chinese Journal of Combustion Science and Technology” and “Computational Multiphase Flows”. He was invited as reviewers of many international journals, as “Powder Technology”, “Fuel”, “International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer”, etc.
His main research field is modeling of dispersed multiphase flows, turbulent flows and single-phase and two-phase combustion. He developed the internationally recognized two-phase Reynolds-stress turbulence model, which reveals that the particle turbulence may be greater than the fluid turbulence under certain conditions, and the second-order moment turbulent combustion model, which is well validated by DNS and experiments and is well applied in RANS modeling and LES of different flame types and structures.
He has published one book in English “Theory and Numerical Modeling of Turbulent Gas-particle Flows and Combustion, CRC Press, Florida, 1993”, and five books in Chinese, such as “Combustion Theory and Reacting Fluid Dynamics, Science Press, Beijing, 1986”, “Dynamics of Multiphase Turbulent Reacting Fluid Flows, Defense Industry Press, Beijing, 2002” etc., and more than 300 papers in periodic journals, such as “International Journal of Multiphase Flows”, “Powder Technology”, “Particuology”, “Numerical Heat Transfer”., “International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer”, “Combustion and Flame”, “Combustion Science and Technology”, “Fuel”, etc.
He won the China National Awards of Natural Science in 2007, Science and Technology Progress Awards of First Degree from the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Electricity, PRC in 1995 and China National Awards of Excellent Scientific Books of First Degree in 1992. He was invited to give more than 5 plenary lectures and more than 12 keynote lectures at international conferences.