Fluid Mechanics and Artificial Intelligence
Prof Yao Zheng
Center for Engineering and Scientific Computation, and School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Zhejiang University
Abstract: Fluid mechanics has long played a vital role in aerospace and other fields, revealing the basic laws of fluid motion and providing a solid theoretical foundation for engineering design. With the rapid development of science and technology, especially the rise of artificial intelligence technology, the combination of this emerging technology and fluid mechanics will open up a new research paradigm.
With its powerful data processing capabilities, pattern recognition capabilities, and optimization algorithms, artificial intelligence provides unprecedented opportunities to solve multi-scale, nonlinear, and uncertain problems in fluid mechanics. Our research team actively explores how to deeply integrate artificial intelligence and fluid mechanics to explore more efficient and accurate flow modeling, optimization and control methods for aerospace engineering design and development.
The lecture will address the applications of machine learning techniques to fluid dynamics system problems, including key issues such as flow field prediction, aerodynamic optimization, and flow control. Meanwhile, we also elaborate on the applications of intelligent algorithms in flow modeling, optimization and control, and demonstrate the practical effects and potential values of these technologies through specific cases and analyses.
Keywords: Fluid Mechanics, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Flow Modeling, Aerodynamic Optimization, Flow Control.
Bio: Dr. Yao ZHENG is a Cheung Kong chair professor with Zhejiang University, appointed by the Ministry of Education of China since 2001. He has been the founding deputy dean of School of Aeronautics and Astronautics (2007-2013), and the vice dean of Faculty of Engineering (2014-2019), all in Zhejiang University, China, and the director of Zhejiang Institute of Turbomachinery and Propulsion Systems (2019-), China.
He had been a Senior Research Scientist for NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, from 1998 to 2002. Prior to moving to NASA, he had been a Senior Software Scientist with CD-adapco (currently a subsidiary of Siemens), New York from 1997 to 1998; and a PhD candidate and a Senior Research Assistant at the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Wales Swansea, UK for eight years. He left NASA Glenn Research Center for Zhejiang University in March, 2002.
His research has spanned computational mechanics and engineering, flight vehicle design, and aerospace propulsion theory and engineering. He has authored or co-authored eight books and 500 papers. He was invited to deliver plenary lectures at the WCCM/APCOM 2016 (Seoul, Korea) and the 21st IACM Computational Fluids Conference (CFC 2021, Hangzhou, China), and a semi-plenary lecture at the WCCM/APCOM 2010 (Sydney, Australia). His awards include Finalist 2 of ACM Gordon Bell Prize (2023), Best HPC Application (CCF HPC China) (2023), a First Prize of Natural Science Award of Zhejiang Province (2020), the Qian Ling-Xi Achievement Awards for Computational Mechanics (2018), a First Prize of Scientific and Technological Progress Award of Zhejiang Province (2016), ICACM Congress Award (2016), the Du Qing-Hua Award of Computational Method in Engineering (2015), and the APACM Computational Mechanics Award (2013).
He serves as the President (2022-2025) of the Asian-Pacific Association for Computational Mechanics (APACM), and the President (2016-) of International Chinese Association for Computational Mechanics (ICACM). He had been a Vice President (2005-2020) of the Chinese Association of Computational Mechanics (CACM); and Co-Chairmen of the IACM CFC 2021 (Hangzhou, China), the CCCM-ISCM 2018 (Nanjing, China), CCCM-ISCM 2016 (Hangzhou, China), and the ICOME 2015 (Hangzhou, China).
