Dr Jian Deng

Career

  • 2009-date: Associate Professor, Department of Mechanics, Zhejiang University, China 
  • 2007-2009: Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Center for Engineering and Scientific Computation, Zhejiang Universtiy, China 

Research

Jian is a member of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics in the Environmental and Industrial Fluid Dynamics group. His current research interests are fish-like swimming, flow-induced vibrations, and  oscillation-based ocean renewable energy generator.

Selected Publications

  • Fangfang Xie, Jian Deng, Qing Xiao, Yao Zheng, "A numerical simulation of VIV on a flexible circular cylinder", Fluid Dynamics Research 44, 045508, 2012
  • Xueming Shao, Dingyi Pan, Jian Deng, Zhaosheng Yu, “Hydrodynamic performance of a fishlike undulating foil in the wake of a cylinder”, Physics of Fluids 22(11), 111903, 2010.
  • Jian Deng, Xueming Shao, Xin Fu, Yao Zheng “Evaluation of the viscous heating induced jam fault of valve spool by fluid–structure coupled simulations”, Energy Conversion and Management, 50(4), 947-954, 2009.
  • Jian Deng, Xueming Shao, Anlu Ren, "Hydrodynamics studies on two fish-like traveling wavy foils in tandem arrangement", Physics of Fluids 19(11), 19-29, 2007. 
  • Jian Deng, Anlu Ren, Xueming Shao, “The flow between a stationary cylinder and a downstream elastic cylinder in cruciform arrangement”, Journal of Fluids and Structures 23(5), 715-731, 2007.
  • Jian Deng, Xueming Shao, Anlu Ren, “A new modification of the immersed-boundary method for simulating flows with complex moving boundaries”, International Journal For Numerical Methods In Fluids 52(1), 1195-1213, 2006.
  • Jianfeng Zou, Anlu Ren, Jian Deng, "Study on flow past two spheres in tandem arrangement using a local mesh refinement vitrual boundary method", International Journal For Numerical Methods In Fluids 49, 465-488, 2005