- 3013 South Engineering Research Center
- Phone (205) 348-6268
Dr. Ziyang Huang
Assistant Professor
Contact
- 3013 South Engineering Research Center
- phone (205) 348-6268
Research Areas
Education
- Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, 2021
- M.Eng., Mechanical Manufacture and Automation, South China University of Technology, China, 2016
- B.Eng., Mechanical Engineering and Automation, South China University of Technology, China, 2014
Dr. Ziyang Huang joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Alabama in August 2024 as an Assistant Professor. Prior to this, he was a Research Fellow (postdoc) at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, from 2021, and a visiting scholar in the Center for Turbulence Research Summer Program at Stanford University from June to July 2024.
Dr. Huang’s research aims to address the emerging demand for advanced Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) tools for multiphase flows with moving and deforming interfaces. He developed the consistent and conservative Phase-Field method for flow problems including an arbitrary number of different phases with large density ratios, heat and mass transfer, phase changes, and shocks, advancing the border of CFD for both low-speed (incompressible) and high-speed (compressible) multiphase flows. His work enables accurate predictions for scientific and engineering challenges to foster a deeper understanding of multiphase physics.
Most current research and publication information is available on Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Zx1bbikAAAAJ and on lab website: https://zhuang.people.ua.edu/.
Dr. Huang’s lab has openings for undergraduate, Master’s, and Ph.D. students. Please contact Dr. Huang via email or stop by his office.
Affiliated Areas
Mechanical Engineering
Selected Publications
- Huang, Z. and Johnsen, E., “A consistent and conservative Phase-Field method for compressible N-phase flows: Consistent Limiter and Multiphase Reduction-Consistent Formulation”, Journal of Computational Physics, 501, pp. 112801, (2024)
- Huang, Z. and Johnsen, E., “A consistent and conservative Phase-Field method for compressible multiphase flows with shocks”, Journal of Computational Physics, 488, pp. 112195, (2023)
- Huang, Z., Lin, G., and Ardekani, A.M., “A consistent and conservative Phase-Field model for thermo-gas-liquid-solid flows including liquid-solid phase change”, Journal of Computational Physics, 449, pp. 110795, (2022)
- Huang, Z., Lin, G., and Ardekani, A.M., “A consistent and conservative model and its scheme for N-phase-M-component incompressible flows”, Journal of Computational Physics, 434, pp. 110229, (2021)
- Huang, Z., Lin, G., and Ardekani, A.M., “Consistent, essentially conservative and balanced-force Phase-Field method to model incompressible two-phase flows”, Journal of Computational Physics, 406, pp. 109192, (2020)