Associate Professor
Email: sheng_chen@hust.edu.cn
Academic Areas: Solar Energy, Multiphase flow
Research Interests: Solar thermal technology, Particle-laden flow, discrete element method
Academic Degrees
PhD, 2019, Department of Energy and Power Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China;
Visiting Scholar, 2018, Department of Departments of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science, Yale University, New Haven, USA
Bachelor, 2014, Department of Thermal Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Professional Experience
Associate Professor (2019-present); School of Energy and Power Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology;
Selected Publications
· 1. Wenchao Fang, Sheng Chen*, Jingying Xu, Kuo Zeng. Predicting heat transfer coefficient of a shell-and-plate, moving packed-bed particle-to-sCO2 heat exchanger for concentrating solar power. Energy 2021, 217, 119389.
· 2. Jianhong Fu, Sheng Chen*, Pinzhuo Chen, Chang Wen, Particle-resolved simulation on viscous flow past random and ordered arrays of hot ellipsoidal particles. International Journal of Multiphase Flow, 2021, 142, 103736.
· 3. Sheng Chen*, Shuiqing Li. Collision-induced breakage of agglomerates in homogenous isotropic turbulence laden with adhesive particles. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 2020, 902, A28.
· 4. Sheng Chen, Wenwei Liu, and Shuiqing Li*, A fast adhesive discrete element method for random packings of fine particles, Chemical Engineering Science, 2019, 193, 336-345.
· 5. Sheng Chen, Wenwei Liu, and Shuiqing Li*, Scaling laws for migrating cloud of low-Reynolds-number particles with Coulomb repulsion, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2018, 835, 880-897.
Course Taught
Fundamentals of Combustion
Project
National Natural Science Foundation of China:52006084, Agglomeration of micron particles in turbulence considering particle-scale interactions, 2021/01—2023/12