Xiaohong Yan

 

Associate Professor of Chemical engineering and technology

 B.S., Xi’an Jiaotong University, 2005

Ph.D., Xi’an Jiaotong University and University of Pennsylvania, 2011

 

Room: 403 School of Chemical Engineering and technology

Email: xhyan11@mail.xjtu.edu.cn

 

Research Areas

·             Transport Phenomena

·             Chromatography and separation

 

Research Interests

        Fluid transport phenomena (momentum, heat and mass transfer) can be observed in various industrial

processes, such as the boiling and condensation of various fluids, flow of gas-particle mixture, solute dispersion in

porous materials. Transport phenomena in microscale channels or surfaces with microscale structures has important

influence on many largescale problems.  This group work on projects in the area of complex fluid transport

phenomena, especially the microscale fluid transport. Detailed interests including: Understanding the complex fluid

transport phenomena in chemical engineering, mechanical engineering fields by mathematical, numerical simulation

and experiment; Design homemade software for various equipements, such as LNG vaporizer, microchannel

condenser; Optimization the design of many equipements, such as cyclone, heat exchangers.

 

Publications

1. Tian XY, Deng XZ, Tan XJ, Yan XH*, Numerical evaluation of the diffusion enhancement in meso-microporous materials originating from mesopores,Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, 2017,245:58-63.

2. Yan XH*, Li N, Simulation of solute dispersion in particle packs by the volume averaging method,Computers & Chemical Engineering, 2017,98:154-160.

3. Yan XH*,Li L, Wang QW, An empirical correlation of the longitudinal and transverse dispersion coefficients for flow through random particle packs, Chemical Engineering Science, 2015.

4. Yan XH*, Wang QW, Li N, Predictive model of solute transport with reversible adsorption in hierarchical porous media, Journal of Chromatography A，2015.

5. Yan XH*, Liu M, Zhang JK, Zhu HR, Li YF, Liang K, On-chip investigation of the hydrodynamic dispersion in rectangular microchannels, Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, 2015.

6. Yan XH*, Li N, Nanopillar array with multiscale inter-pillar spacing as chromatography stationary phase support: theoretical performance evaluation, Chemical Engineering Science, 2014.

7. Yan XH*, Wang QW, Comparative analysis of chromatography dynamic models in predicting the plate height contributed by interphase mass transfer, Chemical Engineering Science, 2013, 104: 760-766. 

8. Yan XH*, Wang QW, Numerical investigation into the effects of ordered particle packing and slip flow on the performance of chromatography, Journal of Separation Science, 2013, 36: 1524-1529. 

9. Yan XH*, Yang J, Wang QW, Liu YZ, Theoretical tools for predicting optimal cross-sectional shapes in micro gas chromatography, Journal of Separation Science, 2013, 36: 1537-1544.

10. Yan XH, Wang QW, Bau HH*, Dispersion in retentive pillar array columns, Journal of Chromatography A, 2010, 1217: 1332-1342. 

11. Yan XH, Wang QW*, Numerical investigation of combined effects of rarefaction and compressibility for gas flow in microchannels and microtubes, Journal of Fluids Engineering-Transaction of the ASME, 2009, 131: 101201.

12. Wang QW*, Yan XH, He QW, Heat-flux-specified boundary treatment for gas flow and heat transfer in microchannel using direct simulation Monte Carlo method,  International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 2008, 74: 1109-1127.