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• Peng Zhang

Education

• Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
  • Ph.D. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, 06/2010
  • Thesis: Problems in Rarefied Flows and Chemical Kinetics
• Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China
  • M.S. in Aerospace Engineering, 07/2003
  • Thesis: Rayleigh-Taylor instability of an accelerating liquid drop in a supersonic flow (in Chinese)
• University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, P.R. China
  • B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, 07/2000
  • Thesis: Numerical investigation on the shockwave-wall interaction in an axisymmetric explosion vessel (in Chinese)

Academic and Research Appointments

• Combustion Energy Frontier Research Center (CEFRC), Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
  • Combustion Energy Research Fellow, 08/2010 - present
• Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
  • Postdoctoral Research Associate, 06/2010 - present
• Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China
  • Research staff, 07/2003-08/2004

Teaching Experiences

• Combustion theory I & II, teaching assistant, 2006-2007 (Fall, Spring)
• Thermodynamics, teaching assistant, 2007-2008(Fall)
• Energy for a Greenhouse-Constrained World, teaching assistant, 2006-2007(Fall)

Honors and Awards

• Wu Prize for Excellence, Princeton University, 2008
• Yongling Liu Fellowship, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2004
• Yung-Huai Kuo Fellowship, Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2002
• Best Senior Thesis Prize, University of Science and Technology of China, 2000

Journal Publications

1. "Gas-Phase Kinetics Study of Reaction of OH Radical with CH₃NHNH₂ By Second-Order Multireference Perturbation Theory,", by H. Sun, P. Zhang and C. K. Law, Journal of Phyiscal Chemistry, DOI: 10.1021/jp3021529.
2. "Bouncing, coalescence, and separation in head-on collision of unequal-size droplets," by C. Tang, P. Zhang and C. K. Law, Phyiscs of Fluids, Vol. 24, 022101 (2012). Introduced by Richard Fitzgerald in "New insights into droplet collisions," Phyiscs of Today, Vol. 65, Issue 3, pp. 22 (2012).
3. "Response of spherical diffusion flames subjected to rotation: Microgravity experimentation and computational simulation," by S. W. Yoo, S. W. Chaudhuri, K. R. Sacksteder, P. Zhang, D. L. Zhu, and C. K. Law, Combustion and Flame, Vol. 159, pp. 665-672 (2012).
4. "An analysis of head-on droplet collision with large deformation in gaseous medium," by P. Zhang and C. K. Law, Phyiscs of Fluids, Vol. 23, 042102 (2011).
5. "Ab initio kinetics of the decomposition of monomethylhydrazine (CH₃NHNH₂)," by P. Zhang, S. J. Klippenstein, H. Sun and C. K. Law, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, Vol. 33, pp. 425-432 (2011).
6. "A Fitting Formula for the Falloff Curves of Unimolecular Reactions, II: Tunneling Effects," by P. Zhang and C. K. Law, International Journal of Chemical Kinetics, Vol. 43, pp. 31-42 (2011).
7. "Rarefied flow effects on stabilization and extinction of rotating-disk flame at low pressures," by P. Zhang and C. K. Law, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 5,   pp. 475-481  (2010).
8. "CVD in weakly rarefied rotating-disk flows," by T. Zhang, P. Zhang, and C. K. Law, Chemical Vapor Deposition, Vol. 15,   pp. 274-280  (2009).
9. "A fitting formula for the falloff curves of unimolecular reactions," by P. Zhang and C. K. Law, International Journal of Chemical Kinetics, Vol. 41, pp. 727-734 (2009).
10. "Role of the Knudsen layer in determining surface reaction rates based on sticking coefficients," by P. Zhang and C. K. Law, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 634, pp. 113-135 (2009).
11. "Rayleigh-Taylor instability of a liquid drop at high Bond numbers," by P. Zhang and G. Yu, Chinese Journal of Theoretical Applied Mechanics, Vol. 38, No. 3, pp. 1-7 (2006) (in Chinese).
12. "Study of one-dimensional flow analysis model of the combustor in supersonic combustion experiments," by P. Zhang and G. Yu, Experiments and Measurements in Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 17, No. 1, (2003) (in Chinese).
13. "Numerical investigation on blast wave propagation and dynamic response of an explosion vessel," by Y. Zhang, M. Zhang, S. Xu, and P. Zhang, Explosion and Shock Waves, Vol. 23, No. 4, pp. 331-336 (2003) (in Chinese).
14. "Numerical study on moving shock diffracted over the cylinder/square column in hydrogen air mixture," by P. Yue, S. Xu, and P. Zhang, Chinese Journal of Computational Physics, Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 10-16 (2001) (in Chinese).

Conference Publications

1. "A fitting formula for the falloff curves of unimolecular reactions with tunneling," by P. Zhang and C. K. Law, Fall Technical Meeting Eastern States Section of the Combustion Institute, Maryland University (2009).
2. "Collision dynamics and mixing of unequal-size droplets," by D. Liu, P. Zhang, C. K. Law, and Y. Guo, Fall Technical Meeting Eastern States Section of the Combustion Institute, Maryland University (2009).
3. "A fitting formula for pressure and temperature dependence of unimolecular reaction rate constants," by P. Zhang and C. K. Law, The 6th U.S. National Combustion Meeting, Ann Arbor, MI (2009).
4. "An ignition and extinction analysis for rotating-disk flame CVD reactor," by C. K. Law and P. Zhang, The 6th U.S. National Combustion Meeting, Ann Arbor, MI (2009).
5. "CVD in weakly rarefied rotating-disk flows," by T. Zhang, P. Zhang, C. K. Law, and F. Qi, The 6th U.S. National Combustion Meeting, Ann Arbor, MI (2009).
6. "Theory of head-on collision of binary droplets: bouncing, coalescence and interface evolution," by P. Zhang and C. K. Law, The 2007 APS DFD Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT (2007). (abstract only)
7. "Role of the Knudsen layer in determining surface reaction rates based on sticking coefficients," by P. Zhang and C. K. Law, Fall Technical Meeting Eastern States Section of the Combustion Institute, University of Virginia (2007).
8. "Theory of bouncing and coalescence in droplet collision," by P. Zhang and C. K. Law, The 5th U.S. National Combustion Meeting, San Diego, CA (2007).
9. "Preliminary numerical study of the dynamic response of a vessel shell to impact load," by Y. Zhang, P. Yue, S. Xu, and P. Zhang, The 7th National Aeroelasticity Meeting, Huzhou, Zhejiang (2001) (in Chinese).
10. "Preliminary numerical investigation of the shockwave-shell interaction in an explosion vessel," by S. Xu, P. Zhang, Y. Zhang, and X. Zhang, The 1st National Numerical Explosion Mechanics Meeting, Lushan, Jiangxi (2000) (in Chinese).