Education background
Bachelor of Engineering (Sep. 2006-July. 2010)
Major: Mechanical Design, Manufacturing and Automation
School of Mechanical Engineering, Tongji University, China
Minor Bachelor of Science (Sep. 2007-July. 2009)
Major: Economy
School of Economics, Fudan University, China
Master of Engineering (Sep. 2010-July. 2013)
Major: Fluid Machinery and Engineering
Research Center of Fluid Machinery and Engineering, Jiangsu University, China
PhD (Oct. 2013 to Jul. 2018)
Major: Fluid Machinery and Engineering
Topic: Numerical and experimental investigation on the flow in rotor-stator cavities
Chair of Turbomachinery, University of Duisburg-Essen (Funded by China Scholarship Council)
Experience
Research assistant from Jan 2018 to Jun 2018, University of Duisburg-Essen.
Postdoctoral fellow at Department of Energy and Power Energy, Tsinghua University from Oct 2018 to Oct 2020
Research assistant professor at Department of Energy and Power Energy, Tsinghua University since Nov 2020.
Areas of Research Interests/ Research Projects
Mechanism of flow in the disk cavity system of turbomachinery
Flow and heat transfer mechanism in the secondary air system of gas turbines
Multi-physical field coupling in the turbomachinery
Multiphase flow
Research Status
Research projects in progress:
Two sub topics from National Major Projects
Trial production of GH3536 alloy honeycomb rim seal for 300MW F Class gas turbine
Completed research projects:
Calculation of flow and heat transfer characteristics of pre-swirl disk cavities in a gas turbine
Research on flow and heat transfer characteristics in rotor-stator cavities
Modification design of mine slurry pumps
Honors And Awards
National scholarship
Academic Achievement
1. Bo Hu, Xuesong Li, Yanxia Fu, et al. Experimental Investigation on the Flow and Flow-Rotor Heat Transfer in a Rotor-Stator Spinning Disk Reactor, Applied thermal engineering 2019, 162 (2019) 114316, DOI:10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2019.114316.
2. Bo Hu, Xuesong Li, Yanxia Fu, et al. Numerical investigation on Flow and Rotor-Flow Heat Transfer in a Rotor-Stator Cavity with Centripetal Carbon Dioxide Through-Flow, Energies 2019, 12, 2613; DOI:10.3390/en12132613.
3. Bo Hu, Xuesong Li, Yanxia Fu, et al. Axial thrust, disk frictional losses, and heat transfer in a gas turbine disk cavity，Energies. 2019, 12, 2917; DOI:10.3390/en12152917.
4. Bo Hu*, Dieter Brillert, Hans Josef Dohmen, et al. Investigation on thrust and moment coefficients of a centrifugal turbomachine, Int. J. Turbomach. Propuls. Power 2018, 3(2), 9: DOI:10.3390/ijtpp3020009.
5. Bo Hu*, Dieter Brillert, Hans Josef Dohmen, et al. Investigation on the flow in a rotor-stator cavity with centripetal through-flow, Int. J. Turbomach. Propuls. Power 2017, 2, 18; DOI:10.3390/ijtpp2040018.
6. Chuan Wang, Bo Hu, Yong Zhu*, et al. Numerical Study on the Gas-water Two-phase Flow in the Self-Priming Process of Self-priming Centrifugal Pump. Processes, DOI: 10.3390/pr7060330.
7. Shaofeng Zhang, Xiaojun Li*, Bo Hu*, et al. Numerical investigation of attached cavitating flow in thermos-sensitive fluid with special emphasis on thermal effect and shedding dynamics. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy，2018. 12. 22. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2018.11.224.
8. Fu-qiang Chen, Xiao-dong Ren, Bo Hu, et al. Parametric analysis on multi-stage high pressure reducing valve for hydrogen decompression. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy，2019, 44, DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2019.10.004.
9. Fan Zhang*, Kofi Asamoah Adu-Puku, Bo Hu*, et al. Flow theory in the side chambers of the radial pumps: A review. Physics of Fluids, DOI:10.1063/5.0006843.
10. Chuan Wang, Xiaoke He, Desheng Zhang*, Bo Hu*, et al. Numerical and Experimental Study of the Self-Priming Process of a Multistage Self-priming Centrifugal Pump. International Journal of Energy Research, 2019;1–19, DOI: 10.1002/er.4497.
11. Fan Zhang*, Ke Chen, Lufeng Zhu, Desmond Appiah, Bo Hu*, et al. Gas-liquid two-phase flow investigation of side channel pump: An application of MUSIG model. Mathematics, 2020, 8(4), 624; https://doi.org/10.3390/math8040624.
12. Xiaoke He, Yingchong Zhang, Chuan Wang, Congcong Zhang, Li Cheng*, Kun Chen, Bo Hu *. Influence of Critical Wall Roughness on the Performance of Double-channel Sewage Pump. Energies, DOI: 10.3390/en13020464.
13. Bo Hu, Shouqi Yuan, Weigang Lu. Optimal design of non-overload centrifugal pump. Advanced material research, ICMSE 2012, 468-471(2012): 2357-2363.
14. Bo Hu, D. Brillert, H.-J. Dohmen, F.-K. Benra. Investigation on the influence of surface roughness on the moment coefficient in a rotor-stator cavity with centripetal through-flow, ASME 2017 Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting, Waikoloa, Hawaii, USA.
15. Bo Hu, Friedrich-Karl Benra, Weigang Lu. Investigation on the solid-liquid flow in the rear chamber of a submersible multi-stage slurry pump, 11th European Conference on Turbomachinery Fluid Dynamics and Thermodynamics 2015, ETC11, Madrid, Spain.
16. Bo Hu, Friedrich-Karl Benra, Weigang Lu. Investigation on solid-liquid flow in the rear chamber of multi-stage slurry pumps with leakage flow, 16th International Symposium on Transport Phenomena and Dynamics of Rotating Machinery, 2016，ISROMAC, Honululu, Hawaii.
