Dr. Yun Wang

Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

 

4231 Engineering Gateway
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697

 

Office: (949) 824-6004;    Fax: (949) 824-6004

E-mail:  yunw@uci.edu;    Webpage:  Renewable Energy Resources Laboratory

 

Research Interests:

Multi-phase Multi-component Transport, CFD, Hydrogen Storage, Fuel Cells, Computational Modeling, Thermo-fluidics, and Turbulent Combustion.  

Research Center: Renewable Energy Resources Laboratory (RERL). 

Education:

Ph.D Mechanical Engineering, Penn State University, 2006
M.S. Mechanical and Engineering Science, Peking University, 2001
B.S. Mechanical and Engineering Science, Peking University, 1998

Teaching:

 

MAE107 Fluid Thermal Science Laboratory

MAE 221 Convective Heat Transfer

MAE 220 Conduction Heat Transfer

MAE 224 Convective Mass Transfer

MAE189-PEM Fuel Cell

MAE189-Wind Energy

MAE298 MAE Seminar

 

Publications (2000, 2005-2006 for more, please visit the lab website: Renewable Energy Resources Laboratory)

1.       Y. Wang and C.Y. Wang, “Simulations of Flow and Transport Phenomena in a Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cell under Low-Humidity Operations”, J. Power Source, 147 (2005) 148-161. (PDF)

2.       Y. Wang and C.Y. Wang, “Modeling Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells with Large Density and Velocity Changes”, J. Electrochem. Soc., 152 (2005) A445-A453. (PDF)

3.       Y. Wang and C.Y. Wang, “Transient Analysis of Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells”, Electrochimica Acta, 50, (2005) 1307-1315. (PDF)

4.       Y. Wang and C.Y. Wang, “Ultra Large-Scale Simulation of Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells”, J. Power Source, 153(1) (2006) 130-135. (PDF)

5.       Y. Wang and C.Y. Wang, “Dynamics of Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells Undergoing Load Changes”, Electrochimica Acta, 51 (2006) 3924- 3933. (PDF)

6.       Y. Wang and C.Y. Wang, “A Non-Isothermal, Two-Phase Model for Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells”, J. Electrochem. Soc., 153 (2006) A1193-1200. (PDF)

7.       J.P. Wang, Y. Wang, Y. Umeda, Y. Nakamura and Y. Takemoto, “Computation of NOx-Emmision in the Exhaust Gas of HCCI and Direct Simulation of the Turbulent Combustion in HCCI Engines”, Proc. 4th Japan-China Workshop on Turbulent Flows, Nagoya, Nov. 2000, P36.

8.       J.P. Wang and Y. Wang, “Direct Numerical Simulation of Turbulent Flames in HCCI-Engines”, International Conference on Applied Computational Fluid Dynamics, Beijing, Oct. 2000, P484.

9.       J.P. Wang, Y. Wang, Y. Umeda, M. Tamura, and Y. Takemoto, “Numerical Simulation of NOx Exhaust of Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition”, J. of Environmental and Information Sciences, Yokkaichi Univ., V4, NO. 2, 2000, P15.

 

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