Principal Investigator

Principal Investigator

Education

• PhD (Chemistry, Combustion Chemistry Research Center), National University of Ireland (Galway), Ireland (Jan 2014–Feb 2018)
• PhD (Chemical Engineering, High-Temperature Plasma Laboratory), Kyushu University, Japan (Apr 2013–Dec 2013)
• Master’s (Mechanical Engineering, Heat Transfer Laboratory), Shizuoka Institute of Science and Technology, Japan (Oct 2010–Mar 2013)
• Bachelor’s (Engineering Thermophysics), Jiangsu University, China (Sep 2006–Jun 2010)

Courses Taught

• Fundamentals of Aerospace Propulsion Chemistry
• Fundamentals of Combustion Chemistry
• Heat Transfer

Research Interests

• Combustion Chemistry
• Chemical Reaction Kinetics
• Quantum Chemical Calculations
• Ignition Experiments

Academic Affiliations

1. Member, International Combustion Institute
2. Member, Royal Society of Chemistry, UK
3. Member, Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), USA
4. Member, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), USA
5. Member, Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (JSME), Thermophysics Division
6. Reviewer for journals such as Combustion and Flame, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, Fuel, and International Journal of Hydrogen Energy

Summary

Combustion provides over 80% of the world’s energy and is critical to industrial manufacturing, transportation, and national defense. Prof. Li Yang obtained his PhD from the Combustion Chemistry Research Center at the National University of Ireland (Galway), under Prof. Henry Curran, a leading expert in combustion kinetics. Prof. Li was Prof. Curran’s first Chinese PhD student. He later conducted postdoctoral research at the Clean Combustion Research Center at KAUST under Prof. Mani Sarathy.

With over 10 years of overseas experience, Prof. Li is fluent in Japanese and English. His expertise lies in the experimental and theoretical studies of hydrocarbon Fuel combustion kinetics, including:

1. High-accuracy quantum chemical calculations for reaction rates and thermochemical properties of radicals.
2. Development of detailed reaction kinetics models for hydrocarbon Fuels.
3. Experimental evaluation of ignition and combustion properties for real Fuels such as gasoline, diesel, jet Fuels, and rocket propellants.

In the past five years, Prof. Li has published 56 papers, in leading combustion journals like Combustion and Flame, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, and Fuel. 3 of these papers are ESI highly cited papers, with 2186 total citations.

Prof. Li is currently a professor at Northwestern Polytechnical University, conducting experimental and theoretical research in solid and liquid propellant combustion chemistry.

Academic Activities

1. Flame Chemistry: Do we even understand the physicochemical properties of PAHs? – 5th International Flame Chemistry Workshop (Virtual), 2020
2. Probing Hydrogen-Nitrogen Chemistry: Theoretical Study of Important Reactions in NxHy, HCN, and HNCO Oxidation – Low-Carbon Combustion (Virtual), 2020
3. Thermochemical Properties of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) – 10th SAS-CI Annual Meeting (Virtual), 2020
4. Accurate Determination of Thermochemical Properties of Energetic Ionic Liquids – AIAA Propulsion & Energy Forum, New Orleans, 2020
5. Blending Octane Behavior of Unsaturated Hydrocarbons – SAE Powertrains, Fuels & Lubricants Meeting, Krakow, 2020
6. Clean Combustion of Future Fuels – 17th International Conference on Renewable Mobility, Berlin, 2020
7. Environmental Impact of Future Trucks – Combustion Symposium, Beijing, 2019
8. Ignition Characteristics of Gasoline-Diesel Blends – 32nd Shock Waves Symposium, Singapore, 2019
9. Theoretical Predictions for Extreme Combustion – 5th National Combustion Symposium, Beijing, 2019
10. Reduced Gasoline Surrogate Model Development – SAE World Congress, Detroit, 2019
11. Kinetics of H-Atom Addition to 1,3-Butadiene – 10th International Chemical Kinetics Conference, Chicago, 2017
12. Oxidation of 2-Butene – 36th International Combustion Symposium, Seoul, 2016