Dr. Cheng Zhang

• Position: Associate Professor
• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• Office Location: Building 4, Room 436A
• czhang@uwf.edu
• Campus: 850.474.2511

Biography

Dr. Cheng Zhang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering here at UWF. He has a Ph.D. and an M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University. He also received a B.E. in Engineering Thermophysics from the University of Science and Technology of China. Dr. Zhang commonly teaches Thermal Fluid Systems I, Computer-Aided Design and Modeling, Sophomore Engineering Design I and Junior Engineering Design I. His research interest are Turbulent flow and combustion, Multiphase flow, Microfluids, Coal/biomass gasification, Diesel/biodiesel-fueled internal combustion engine, Wind energy, Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and Computational aeroacoustics (CAA)

Degrees & Institutions

Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 2007
M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 2001
B.E. in Engineering Thermophysics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 1995

Research

Research includes solid fuel gasification, wind turbine flow and noise, diesel/biodiesel-fueled internal combustion engine, microfluidics, computational fluid dynamics, and computational aeroacoustics.

Keywords: Turbulent flow and combustion, Multiphase flow, Microfluids, Coal/biomass gasification, Disel/biodiesel-fueled, internal combustion engine, Wind energy, Computational fluid dynamics, CFD, Computational aeroacoustics, CAA, electrical, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, engineering thermophysics, science and technology