Shen Xi 

Doctor of Engineering

Research Assistant

TEL: 18796015076

Email: x.shen@ujs.edu.cn; Shen.xi.01@outlook.com

Location: Research Center of Fluid Machinery Engineering and Technology, Jiangsu University

Biography

Dr. Xi Shen is a research assistant at National Research Center of Pumps, Jiangsu University, China. He obtained his PhD in Engineering in Fluid Machinery from Jiangsu University in 2021. He was a visiting scholar in professor Bart’sgroup at Department of Mechanical Engineering, , Eindhoven University of Technology from 2019 to 2020. His research interest is focused on design and optimization of pumps and cavitation and flow instability of axial flow pump.

Fields of research:

[1]Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)

[2]Tip leakage vortex and its induced cavitation

[3]Unsteady flow and its control technology

[4]Transient process theory and characteristics of hydraulic machinery

[5]Hydraulic performance optimization and rotor dynamic characteristics of pumps

Main Publications:

[1]Shen Xi, Zhang Desheng*, Xu Bin, Jin Yongxin, Shi Weidong, B.P.M. (Bart) van Esch. Experimental Investigation of the Transient Patterns and Pressure Evolution of Tip Leakage Vortex and Induced-Vortices Cavitation in an Axial Flow Pump.ASMEJournal of Fluids Engineering, 2020;142.10.101206-1.

[2]Shen Xi, Zhang Desheng*, Xu Bin, Shi Weidong, B.P.M. (Bart) van Esch. Experimental and numerical investigation on the effect of tip leakage vortex induced cavitating flow on pressure fluctuation in an axial flow pump,Renewable Energy, 2021;163:1195-1209.

[3]Shen Xi, Zhang Desheng*, Xu Bin, Ye Changliang, Shi Weidong. Experimental and numerical investigation of tip leakage vortex cavitation in an axial flow pump under design and off-design conditions.Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part A: Journal of Power and Energy, 2021;235(1):70-80.

[4]Shen Xi, Zhang Desheng*, Xu Bin, Zhao Ruijie, Jin Yongxin, Chen Jian, Shi Weidong. Numerical and experimental investigations of pressure fluctuation in a mixed-flow pump under low flow conditions.Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part A: Journal of Power and Energy, 2020;234(1), 46-57.

[5]Shen Xi,Zhang Desheng*.Experiments of tip leakage vortex cavitation cloud and suction-side-perpendicular cavitating vortices in an axial flow pump.ASME 2018 5th Joint US-European Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting, FEDSM2018-83134.

[6]Shen Xi, Zhang Desheng*, Xu Bin, Jin Yongxin, Gao Xiongfa. Experimental and numerical investigation of pressure fluctuation and tip leakage vortex cavitation of the impeller in an axial flow pump.ASME-JSME-KSME Jiont Fluids Engineering conference, 2019-5161.

[7]Xu Bin,Shen Xi, Zhang Desheng*, Zhang Weibin. Experimental and numerical investigation on the tip leakage vortex cavitation in an axial flow pump with different tip clearances.Processes, 2019;7(12), 935.