Profile:

Bijie received his PhD degree from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London in 2020 sponsored by Mitsubishi Heavy Industry (MHI) Scholarship. Prior to his appointment as a Lecturer in Sustainable Power and Propulsion at Loughborough University, he had been a Research Associate at Imperial College working on a number of Projects sponsored by Industrial Partners, such as, MHI, Caterpillar and Daimler.  His research interests include Turbomachinery aerodynamics, High-fidelity simulations, and Multiphysics gas dynamics. Bijie is also an honorary Lecturer at Imperial College London (ICL).

Qualifications:

• PhD 2020, Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London, London, UK.
• MEng 2015, Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
• BEng 2010, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China.

Current teaching responsibilities:

• 1^st year Thermofluids
• 3^rd year Aircraft Design
• Supervision of BEng, MEng and MSc Final Year Projects

Current administrative responsibilities:

• Personal Tutor

Outline of main research interests:

• High fidelity Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) for non-ideal compressible fluids (e.g. supercritical CO₂, organic dense vapours)
  • Large Eddy Simulation (LES) / Detached Eddy Simulation (DES) for power and propulsion applications
• Machine Learning (ML) assisted CFD
  • ML assisted Reynolds Averaged N-S models (RANS) and LES models
• Electric propulsion for eVTOLs and flying cars
• Fluid Mechanics Reduced Order Model (ROM)
  • 1D model for turbomachinery system
  • System dynamic model for 3D unsteady flows (Proper Orthodontal Decomposition + Galerkin Projection)
• Turbomachinery aerodynamics
• Industrial plasma CFD models and applications
  • Deep space electric propulsion
  • Semi-conductor manufacturing

Grants and contracts:

• Non-equilibrium three phase flow of CO₂, Mitsubishi-Imperial, 2023.
• Centrifugal compressor instability, Mitsubishi-Imperial, 2022.
• Turbine non-linear A/R volute mechanism and design, Mitsubishi-Imperial, 2021.
• Twin-entry turbine design and optimization, Mitsubishi-Imperial, 2019.
• Turbocharger low solidity nozzle mechanism and design, Mitsubishi-Imperial, 2017.

• Bijie Yang, Ricardo Martinez-Botas, Yingxian Xue, Mingyang Yang, ‘Unsteady Gas Dynamics of Radial Turbine Volutes Under Pressure Pulsations’, Journal of Turbomachinery, 2023,145(3).
• Bijie Yang, Tao Chen, Ricardo Martinez-Botas, ‘Bypass Laminar-Turbulent Transition on a Flat Plate of Organic Fluids Using DNS Method’, ERCOFTAC Series(book series),2023.
• Bijie Yang, Mengying Shu, Mingyang Yang, Ricardo Martinez-Botas, ‘Turbodyna: a generic one-dimensional dynamics simulator for radial turbomachinery’, Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, 2022,144(9).
• Bijie Yang, Mingyang Yang, Ricardo Martinez-Botas, ‘Rotor Flow-Field Timescale and Unsteady Effects on Pulsed-Flow Turbocharger Turbine’, Aerospace Science and Technology, 2022,120.
• Bijie Yang, Ricardo Martinez-Botas, Yingxian Xue, Mingyang Yang, ‘One Dimensional Modelling for Pulsed Flow Twin-Entry Turbine’, Journal of Turbomachinery, 2022,144(7).
• Bijie Yang, Peter Newton, Ricardo Martinez-Botas, ‘Understanding of secondary flows and losses in radial and mixed flow turbines’, Journal of Turbomachinery, 2020,142(8).
• Bijie Yang, Ricardo Martinez-Botas, ‘TURBODYNA: centrifugal/centripetal turbomachinery dynamic simulator and its application on a mixed flow turbine’, Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, 2019, 141(10).
• Bijie Yang, Ning Zhou, Quanhua Sun, ‘Numerical analysis of the non-equilibrium plasma flow in the gaseous electronics conference reference reactor’, Journal of Semiconductor, 2016, 37(1).
• Bijie Yang, Quanhua Sun, ‘Derivation of a Continuum Model for Low Temperature Plasma Flow and its Application on Arc Discharge’, Procedia Engineering, 2015, 126.
• Eva Alvarez-Regueiro, Bijie Yang, Srithar Rajoo, Esperanza Barrera, Ricardo Martinez-Botas, ‘Optimisation of an ORC Radial Turbine Using a Reduced-order Model Coupled with CFD’, Journal of Engineering: Gas Turbine and Power, 2022,144(10).
• Mengying Shu, Bijie Yang, Mingyang Yang, Ricardo Martinez-Botas, Weilin Zhuge, ‘Compressor Stability At Pulsating Condition via Gas Dynamics Responses Analysis’, Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, 2022, 144(2).
• Mengying Shu, Bijie Yang, Mingyang Yang, Ricardo Martinez-Botas, Kangyan Deng, ‘Unsteady response of performance for centrifugal compressor under pulsating backpressure condition’, Aerospace Science and Technology, 2022,126.
• Mengying Shu, Bijie Yang, Mingyang Yang, Ricardo Martinez-Botas, Kangyao Deng, ‘Investigation on the unsteadiness of centrifugal compressor exposed to pulsating backpressure’, Journal of Automobile Engineering, 2021, 235(8).
• Tao Chen, Bijie Yang, Miles Robertson, Ricardo Martinez-Botas, ‘Direct numerical simulation of real-gas effects within turbulent boundary layers for fully-developed channel flows’, Journal of the Global Power and Propulsion Society, 2021, 5.
• Mingyang Yang, Yingxian Xue, Lei Pan, Bijie Yang, Ricardo Martinez-Botas, ‘Modelling of Dynamic Response of a Radial Turbine to Pulsatile Incoming Flow’, Journal of Turbomachinery, 2023,145(3).
• Xuanyang Hu, Yuping Qian, Bijie Yang, Chaofan Dong, Yangjun Zhang, Weilin Zhuge, ‘Aerodynamic Design of Cooling Guide for Electrical Machine in Electric Ducted Fan’, Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, 2023,145(5).
• Yingxian Xue, Mingyang Yang, Bijie Yang, Kangyao Deng ‘Study on a flow-field-based meanline model of nozzled twin-entry mix-flow turbine’, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part D: Journal of Automobile Engineering, 2022,11.
• Mingyang Yang, Ruikai Cai, Mengying Shu, Lei Pan, Weilin Zhuge, Bijie Yang, ‘Effects of pulsating backpressure on performance of stability of a centrifugal compressor’, Aerospace Science and Technology, 2022,130.
• Mingyang Yang, Mengying Shu, Xingcheng Wang, Kangyao Deng, Bijie Yang, Ricardo Martinez-Botas ‘Rotor-stator aerodynamic interaction of centrifugal compressor at pulsating backpressure conditions’, International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, 2022,96.
• Mengying Shu, MingyangYang, Kaiyue Zhang, KangyaoDeng, BijieYang, RicardoMartinez-Botas, ‘Experimental study on performance of centrifugal compressor exposed to pulsating backpressure’, Aerospace Science and Technology, 2019, 95.
• Yingxian Xue, Mingyang Yang, Ricardo Martinez-Botas, Kangyao Deng, Bijie Yang, ‘Unsteady performance of a mixed-flow turbine with nozzled twin-entry volute confronted by pulsating incoming flow’, Aerospace Science and Technology, 2019, 95.

 Academic Institutions:

• Imperial College London
• Shanghai Jiao Tong University
• Tsinghua University
• Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Industry:

• Mitsubishi Heavy Industry
• Daimler
• Caterpillar

External roles and appointments:

• Honorary Lecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London.