Xiaoning Shen Email & Phone Number

Beijing

Business development and client communication, universities and academic institutions in Beijing

Beijing

• Lead two research scientists and three lab technicians, research on fluid dynamics, heat transfer and reaction in air-solid multiphase flow in reactors.
• Design and optimize proprietary reactors for coal-related processes via Fluent® simulation, withthe emphasis on efficiency of mass and heat transfer.
• Prepare work breakdown structure (WBS), coordinate multi-departmental efforts to draftengineering drawings and perform final review.
• Lead the conceptualization, drafting and reviewing of PFD and P&ID diagrams and standardoperation procedure (SOP).

Beijing City, China

• Collaborate with R&D team members to develop designs of fast and economical solid separation and classification equipment for power plant, mining and concrete industries.
• Build prototype testing rig system and perform experiments to measure mass and heat transferprocessing via particle tracking techniques, i.e. high speed imaging with synchronized laserillumination, through-put.
• Customize and tune CFD modeling of particle motions in turbulent flows via Fluent User DefineFunction (UDF) based on Langevin stochastic equation and turbulence boundary-layer modeling.
• Prepare drawing and experimental data leading to assignment of US patent 20140203121 A1.
• Prepare the final report to US Department of Energy (DOE) on particle classification technology.

Greater Philadelphia Area

• UPenn Complex Fluids Laboratory (PI: Prof. Paulo Arratia)Dissertation topic:Undulatory swimming in complex fluids at low Reynolds number
• Propulsion generation through flow structures and structural evolutions.
• Experimental flow field measurement using particle velocimetry.
• Rheological characterization of the structured fluids (e.g., viscoelastic, shear-thinning).
• Microscopy, imaging system design and image processing via IDL and MATLAB.

with Professor Paulo Arratia on Introduction to fluid mechanics (MEAM 302, 60 students enrolled). The main topics include the fundamental concepts of fluid mechanics, and the approaches to solving turbomachinery and piping flows.

with Professor Ayyaswamy and Dr. Carchidi on Analytic Methods in Engineering (ENM 251, 30 students enrolled). The main topic includes ordinary differential equations and partial differential equations, and their applications to the modelings of physical systems.

with Professor Howard Hu on Introduction to Scientific Computation (EAS 105, 60 students enrolled).

Advised by Professor Pu Chen Project:Generation of Graph Partition of Spare Matrix for parallel computingFunded by Presidents’ Undergraduate Research Fellowship

Ph. D. Candidate, Mechanical Engineering And Applied Mechanics

Dissertation topic: Undulatory swimming in complex fluids at low Reynolds number. Advisor: Professor Paulo E. Arratia

Bsc, Theoretical And Applied Mechanics

Activities and Societies: Editor, Departmental weekly newspaper 'Universal Gravitation' (04-05) PKU Tennis Association (04-07)