受船舶于海洋工程学院邀请，英国诺丁汉大学阎玉英教授，将面向全校师生做“基于仿生理念的传热强化和能源利用进展”的学术讲座，诚邀感兴趣的师生参加！
报告时间：2022年5月20日（周五）15:30 - 16:50
腾讯会议ID: 689-299-821
学术报告题目：
Advances in using nature inspired solutions for improving heat transfer enhancement and energy utilisations
学术报告摘要：
Living things have been continued to evolve under the pressure of survival and show structures with certain functions. They provide inspirations for humans to cope with challenges that we face today. In this lecture, I aim to highlight what we could learn from nature to tackle the challenges in heat transfer and energy utilisations for improving the efficiency and sustainability, and to introduce our recent progresses of the work inspired by nature or biological entities.
Our previous focus on biomimetics was concerned with mimicking plants and animals’ surface morphological nature for possible solutions of flow drag reduction and heat transfer enhancement, and this still strongly draws our research attention to improving understanding of the mechanism and putting forward new applications, such as in nucleate boiling, spray cooling, and de-icing.
In terms of the recent research efforts and progresses, two works will be reported. One is applying the nature inspired solutions to energy transfer and storage involving using composite phase change materials with hierarchical porous structures for medium-high-temperature energy storage for solar energy applications. Such biomimetic structures, inspired by natural plants, help avoid the leakage of phase change materials in the porous and improve overall performance of heat transfer.
The other recent progress is concerned with the application of radiative cooling coating inspired by nature solutions to building for sustainable built environment. This work provides a novel strategy for designing, fabrication, and applications of high-performance radiative cooling materials.
报告专家简介：
Yuying Yan is full Professor (Chair) of Thermofluids Engineering at University of Nottingham, UK. His had a few management roles at University of Nottingham before 2021 including Course Director, Director of joint laboratory, Head of Research Group, Faculty Director of Global Engagement, respectively.
Prof. Yan’s research covers widely range of thermofluids engineering including heat transfer enhancement, phase change, nanofluids and nature inspired solutions for energy efficiency and thermal management. He received Design & Nature Award & U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Scientist Awards in 2004, Royal Academy of Engineering Research Exchanges with China and India Award 2011, etc., He was an elected Fellow of International Society of Bionic Engineering in 2015, Yangtze River guest professor in 2015, and Li dak sum Chair Professor in 2017, WSSET fellow in 2020. After chairing the first International Symposium of Biomimetic Functional Surfaces and Fluids in 2009, he has chaired or co-chaired over 10 international conferences/events. He has supervised about 50 PhD students and postdoc researchers, authored or co-authored over 450 papers including about 300 journal papers, with over 10,000 citations. He serves as Associate Editor for Elsevier Journal “Case Studies in Thermal Engineering”, and Senior Editor for Elsevier’s e-Prime - Advances in Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Energy. He also holds editorial board membership at International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Scientific Reports, Journal of Bionic Engineering, Thermal Science & Engineering Progress, Energy Storage & Saving, and Automotive Innovation.
