Background Information: 

Professor Yu Zhou obtained his Bachelor of Engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology (China). He completed his PhD degree at The University of Newcastle in 1992. He joined The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) in 1995 and rolled through the ranks of Assistant, Associate and Full Professor. Since 2010, he was a Full Professor and Director of the Center for Turbulence Control at Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen). His main research interests are AI-based virtual engineering technologies for aerodynamic shape optimization of high-speed vehicles, AI control of turbulence, turbulent shear flows and flow-induced vibrations. He has published over 230 rigorously refereed archival journal papers, more than 40 in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics. His work has received more than 6500 ISI citations. He has received a number of awards, including the 2003 VSJ best paper award medal from the Visualization Society of Japan, Research Grant Achievement Award 2007 of PolyU, Industrial and Engineering Services Grant Achievement Award 2008 of PolyU, Chinese national “State-Appointed Expert” award in 2010, the Distinguished Visiting Scientist in 2014-2015 in the CSIRO of Australia, elected Fellow of Australasian Fluid Mechanics Society in 2014. He serves as Associate Editor of AIAA Journal since 2015. He has served as the President of the Fluid-Structure-Sound Interactions and Control since 2017. In 2021, he received the Second-Class Prize of Natural Science awarded by Chinese Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics.

Research Field:

AI-based virtual engineering technologies for aerodynamic shape optimization of high-speed vehicles; AI control of turbulence; turbulent shear flows; flow-induced vibrations.

Educational Background:

1989-1992 Ph.D.  Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Newcastle, Australia 

1987-1989 M.Eng.Sci. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of New South Wales, Australia 

1982-1984 M. Eng.  Department of Mechanical Engineering, Chongqing University, PR China 

1978-1982 B.Eng.  Department of Mechanical Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, PR China 

Work Experience:

Sept 2024 - now  Chair Professor, Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo

Oct 2010 - Aug 2024 Professor, Founding Director of the Center for Turbulence Control (formerly Institute for Turbulence-Noise-Vibration Interactions), Harbin Institute of Technology（Shenzhen）

July 2014 - June 2015 Distinguished Visiting Scientist, CSIRO Manufacturing Flagship, supported by the Distinguished Visiting Scientist Scheme of Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organization(CSIRO), Australia.

Sept 2006 - Sept 2013 Director of Research Centre for Fluid-Structure Interactions (formerly Centre for Flow-Induced Vibration), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Oct 1995 – Sept 2013 Assistant, Associate and Full Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Dec 1994 – Oct 1995 Production Manager, International Division, BHP Steel, The Broken Hill Proprietary Limited

March 1994 – Dec 1994 Research Associate, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Sydney, Australia

Jan 1993 – Dec 1994 Research Associate, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Newcastle, Australia

Academic Experience:

2014-2015: the Distinguished Visiting Scientist with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) of Australia

July 2013- August 2013: Visiting Professor, Université d’Orléans 

Academic Part-time Jobs (Partial):

Sept 2017 - now President of Fluid-Structure-Sound Interactions and Control Society

Sept 2015 - now Associate Editor of AIAA Journal

Awards and Honors:

2021: The Second-Class Prize of Natural Science awarded by Chinese Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics•

2020 - now: On the list of the World’s Top 2% Most Cited Scientists since 2019 according to Web-of-Science-based Stanford University Citation Ranking

2020: Supervisors of 100 Excellent Postgraduate Theses of Harbin Institute of Technology Awarded on the Occasion of the 100th Anniversary of HIT.

2017 - now: President of International Fluid-Structure-Sound Interactions and Control Society 

2014: Fellow of Australasian Fluid Mechanics Society 

2013: Received the award of the Distinguished Visiting Scientist Scheme from The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) of Australia

2010: Received the award of Chinese national “State-Appointed Expert”

2012:  Vice President GRF Awards of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

2008: Faculty of Engineering Industrial and Engineering Services Grant Achievement Award

2007: Faculty of Engineering Research Grant Achievement Award

2003: Received 2003 VSJ Paper Award Medal of the Visualization Society of Japan.

Representative Works:

General Information

Published over 230 rigorously refereed archival journal papers, including more than 40 in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics. Web of Science citation counts exceed 6500, with a H-index of 45.

10 Representative Works:

1.Zhou Y, Hao J C, Md. Mahbub Alam 2024 Wake of Two Tandem Square Cylinders. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 983, A3 (38 pages).

2.Zhang B F, Fan D W & Zhou Y 2023 Artificial intelligence control of a low-drag Ahmed body using distributed jet arrays, Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 963, A3 (36 pages).

3.Perumal A, Wu Z, Fan D W & Zhou Y 2022 A hybrid AI control of turbulent jet: Reynolds number effect and scaling, Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 942, A47 (28 pages).

4.Cheng X Q, Qiao Z X, Zhang X, Quadrio M, Zhou Y 2021 Skin-friction reduction using periodic blowing through streamwise slits, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 920, A50 (33 pages).

5.Cheng X Q, Wong C W, Hussain F, Schroder, W & Zhou Y 2021 Flat plate drag reduction using plasma-generated streamwise vortices, Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 918, A24 (37 pages).

6.Liu K, Zhang B F, Zhang Y C & Zhou Y 2021 Flow structure around a low-drag Ahmed body. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 913, A21 (38 pages).

7.Zhou Y, Fan D, Zhang B F, Li R, Noack B R 2020 Artificial intelligence control of a turbulent jet. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 897, A27 (46 pages). 

8.Chen J G, Zhou Y, Antonia R A & Zhou T M 2019 The turbulent Kármán vortex, Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 871, 92-112. 

9.Zhou Y & Zhang B F 2021 Recent advances in wake dynamics and active drag reduction of simplified automotive bodies. Applied Mechanics Review. 73, 060801 (29 pages).

10.Zhou Y & Alam M M 2016 Wake of two interacting circular cylinders: a review, International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow. 62, 510-537.