Contact Dr Liang Yang
- Tel: +44 (0) 1234 758032
- Email: Liang.Yang@cranfield.ac.uk
- Twitter: @lyang200809
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Areas of expertise
- Computational Fluid Dynamics
- Computing, Simulation & Modelling
- Renewable Energy
Background
Liang Yang is interested in numerical methods for solving multiphysics, multiscale problems, with the application to Marine Renewables. He received his PhD in Computational Mechanics in Swansea University. He holds dual MSc in Computational Mechanics from Swansea University and Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. He is a visiting scholar in the dep. of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London. Research areas includes:
- Stabilising offshore floating energy devices [Talk]
- Physical wave tank [Link] and numerical wave tank
- Far UVC light application: Radiation-fluid transient analysis [Media, Media]
- Massively parallel Finite Elements Solver for fluids/solids and novel mesh generation technique
Selected Invited talks:
Unified computational framework for floating structure and wave interaction. Computational Science Engineering, Data Science & Artificial Intelligence by Total R&D, October 2019, Serris, France.
Keynote: Adaptive modelling for multiphase flow through debris bed with boiling, The University of Tokyo, March, 2019.
Bridging the gap between the computational fluid, solid and multibody dynamics. State key laboratory of hydroscience and engineering, Tsinghua University, March 2019.
Bridging the gap between the computational fluid, solid and multibody dynamics. Computational Geoscience seminars, department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College, March 2019.
Three-fluids model for multiphase flow in porous media with phase change, with application to debris bed cooling. Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire (IRSN), October, 2018.
Massively parallel and next generation solver for aerodynamics and aeroacoustics. Imperial-Tsinghua-COMAC science week, September, 2018.
Three-fluids model for multiphase flow in porous media with phase change. 3rd UKFN Nuclear Thermal Hydraulics SIG, September, 2018.
PyEFEM: Highly parallel python based framework for flow and fluid-structure interaction problem. Department of Computing Research Associate Symposium, Imperial College, June, 2018.
Research opportunities
I am accepting students for self-funded PhD in the following research areas:
1. Stabilisation of offshore platform
2. Deep reinforcement learning for marine renewable energy
3. Thermal hydraulics and radiation multi-physics coupling
4. Massively parallel computing and finite element analysis
Current activities
Current projects:
80,000 CPUh Instant Access to ARCHER, Massively parallel simulation of Navier-Stokes-Brinkman system on grayscale Micro-CT images. Oct/2020-May/2021.
EPSRC Supergen ORE ECR Fund, Parametric study for flapping foil system for harnessing wave energy. Nov/2020-Aug/2021.
Current Supervision at CU:
J. Xing, PhD, 2020-, Advanced simulation and control of floating offshore wind turbines.
MSc thesis 2021: X. Xu; A. Koutras; F. Topal; A. Dell'Orto; Ansari Zeeshan; H. Clare-Paule; J. Lebault.
Previous funded project:
PI: Minimising the tsunami impact on coastal communities of developing countries funded by QR Global Challenges Research Fund. 10/2019-07/2020.
Previous Supervision at CU:
H. Syed, MSc, 2020, Response of double hinged platform using potential flow solver.
J. Xing, MSc, 2020, CFD modelling oil spill response under fast current.
L. Balazi, MSc, 2020, Best thesis on the Advanced Mechanical Engineering MSc. Massively parallel simulation of Navier-Stokes-Brinkman system on grayscale Micro-CT images, joint supervision with Total Geosciences Research Centre.
L. Abadie, MSc, 2020, Pitch and heave motion for thrust generation at low Reynolds numbers.
T. Chatin, MSc, 2019 CFD Modelling and optimisation of a Horizontal plate Wave Energy Converter.
Group Project 2021, Stabilising offshore floating turbine by harnessing wave energy.
Group Project 2020, Modelling oil spill response under fast current.
Group Project 2020, Parametric investigation and optimisation of a novel ocean-going robotic platform (industrial funded).
Other roles:
Module leader for 'Fluid Mechanics and Loading' 2019-2020 2020-2021
Module leader for 'Design for Renewable Energy Structures' 2020-2021
Member: PRIMaRE Committee
Member for Rapid Assistance in Modelling the Pandemic: RAMP
Clients
EPSRC
Total
Autonomous devices Ltd
Publications
Articles In Journals
- Yang L, Buchan A, Jones A, Smith P, Sakai M & Pain C (2021) A three-phase interpenetrating continua approach for wave and porous structure interaction, Engineering Computations, 38 (3) 1157-1169.
- Lyu Z, Lei Q, Yang L, Heaney C, Song X, Salinas P, Jackson M, Li G & Pain CC (2021) A novel approach to optimising well trajectory in heterogeneous reservoirs based on the fast-marching method, Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering, 88 (April) Article No. 103853.
- Zheng Y, Zhang C, Wang J, Yang L, Shen C, Han Z & Liu Y (2020) Non-wet kingfisher flying in the rain: The tumble of droplets on moving oriented anisotropic superhydrophobic substrates, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 12 (31) 35707-35715.
- Zhang C, Wu Z, Shen C, Zheng Y, Yang L, Liu Y & Ren L (2020) Effects of eigen and actual frequencies of soft elastic surfaces on droplet rebound from stationary flexible feather vanes, Soft Matter, 2020 (16) 5020-5031.
- Buchan AG, Yang L & Atkinson KD (2020) Predicting airborne coronavirus inactivation by far-UVC in populated rooms using a high-fidelity coupled radiation-CFD model, Scientific Reports, 10 (1) Article No. 19659.
- Wu Z, Zhang C, Wang J, Shen C, Yang L & Ren L (2020) Water entry of slender segmented projectile connected by spring, Ocean Engineering, 217 (December) Article No. 108016.
- Yang L, Yang J, Boek E, Sakai M & Pain C (2019) Image-based simulations of absolute permeability with massively parallel pseudo-compressible stabilised finite element solver, Computational Geosciences, 23 (5) 881-893.
- Yang L, Gil A, Carreño A & Bonet J (2018) Unified one-fluid formulation for incompressible flexible solids and multiphase flows: Application to hydrodynamics using the immersed structural potential method (ISPM), International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, 86 (1) 78-106.
- Yang L (2018) One-fluid formulation for fluid–structure interaction with free surface, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 332 (April) 102-135.
- Yang L, Yang H, Yan S & Ma Q (2017) Numerical investigation of water-entry problems using IBM method, International Journal of Offshore and Polar Engineering, 27 (2) 152-159.
- Yang L, Badia S & Codina R (2016) A pseudo-compressible variational multiscale solver for turbulent incompressible flows, Computational Mechanics, 58 (6) 1051-1069.
Conference Papers
- Yang L, Buchan A, Jones A, Smith P, Sakai M & Pain C (2019) Adaptive modelling for multiphase flow through debris bed with boiling. In: International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Tokyo, 25 March - 29 April 2019.
- Joshi A, Heaney C, Jones A, Yang L, Smith P, Tehrani A & Pain CC (2019) Numerical modelling of in-vessel melt retention: The LIVE Experiments. In: 25th International QUENCH Workshop, Karlsruhe, 22-24 October 2019.
- Yang L (2019) PyEFEM: Massively parallel python based FEM framework for flow problems. In: Computational Methods in Multi-scale, Multi-uncertainty and Multi-physics Problems (CM4P-2019), Porto, 15 July - 17 June 2019.
- Yang L, Stagonas D & Hart P (2019) Unified one-fluid simulation for floating wave energy converters. In: 6th PRIMaRE Conference 2019, Cardiff, 3-4 July 2019.
- Yang L, Gil AJ & Pain CC (2019) Unified one-fluid formulation for multibody dynamics and multiphase flow interaction. In: UK Association for Computational Mechanics Conference 2019, London, 10-12 April 2019.
- Yang L, Lyu Z, Yang P, Pavlidis D, Fang F, Xiang J, Latham JP & Pain CC (2018) Numerical simulation of attenuator wave energy converter using one-fluid formulation. In: 28th International Ocean and Polar Engineering Conference 2018 (ISOPE-2018), Sapporo, 10-15 June 2018.
- Yang L, Yang H, Yan S, Ma Q & Bihnam M (2016) Comparative study on water impact problem. In: 26th International Ocean and Polar Engineering Conference (ISOPE 2016), Rhodes, 26 June - 2 July 2016.
- Yang L, Carreño AA, Gil AJ & Bonet J (2014) An immersed structural potential method framework for incompressible flexible/rigid/multi-phase flow interaction. In: 22nd UK National Conference of the Association for Computational Mechanics in Engineering, University of Exeter, 2-4 April 2014.
- Balazi Atchy Nillama L, Yang L & Yang J Hybrid MPI/OpenMP parallisation implementation of Navier-Stokes-Brinkman system for porous media flow. In: 7th PRIMaRE Conference, Online, 7-8 July 2020.
- Abadie LME, Stagonas D & Yang L. Numerical investigation for a coupled pitch and heave motion of flapping foil. In: 7th PRIMaRE Conference, Online, 7-8 July 2020.
- Xing J, Syed H, Mendizabal X, Stagonas D & Yang L 2D Modelling dynamic response of floating structure under surface gravity waves with currents. In: 7th PRIMaRE Conference, Online, 7-8 July 2020.
