Office: 231 Fluor Daniel Building
Phone: (864) 656-0545
Email: yuhaox@clemson.edu
Yuhao Xu joined the department in August 2023. Before this position, he was an Assistant Professor at Prairie View A&M University, receiving the university’s Outstanding Full-Time Teaching Award and Outstanding Early Researcher Award. He was a Department of Energy Visiting Faculty at Argonne National Laboratory for the Summer of 2023. Dr. Xu’s research explores the applications of multiphase reacting flows toward carbon neutrality and supports future space exploration missions via supercritical water oxidation for wastewater reclamation. His research also focuses on developing practical tools at the micro- and nano-scale to address problems in energy and the environment. Dr. Xu is also passionate about using innovative strategies in STEM education to engage students, especially underrepresented groups in STEM, and improve their educational experience.
Ph.D., Cornell University, 2017
M.S., Washington State University-Vancouver, 2013
B.Eng., Southeast University (Nanjing, China), 2011
High-pressure Combustion, Sustainable Fuels, Thermal Systems, Image Analysis, Multiphase Flow and Heat Transfer, Microfluidics
Y. Xu, Y. Shen, C.T. Avedisian, M.C. Hicks, M.Y. Choi, Quantitative Investigation of Sooting Dynamics in Droplet Combustion Using Automated Image Analysis Algorithms, Fuel, 2023, 354: 129313.
R.B. Rasul, C.T. Avedisian, Y. Xu, M.C. Hicks, A.P. Reeves, Dynamic Differential Image Circle Diameter Measurement Precision Assessment: Application to Burning Droplets, Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2023, 45 (2): 1668-1681.
Y. Xu, T.I. Farouk, M.C. Hicks, C.T. Avedisian, Initial diameter effects on combustion of unsupported equi-volume n-heptane/iso-octane mixture droplets and the transition to cool flame behavior: Experimental observations and detailed numerical modeling, Combustion and Flame, 2020, 220: 82-91.
Y. Xu, J.D. Brunson, C.T. Avedisian, Y. Shen, I. Keresztes, A.M. Condo Jr, D. Phillips, Burning of algae-derived biofuel droplets and their mixtures with jet fuel, Energy & Fuels, 2020, 34 (1): 929-935.
Y. Xu, M.C. Hicks, C.T. Avedisian, The combustion of iso-octane droplets with initial diameters from 0.5 to 5 mm: Effects on burning rate and flame extinction, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2017, 36 (2): 2541-2548.
T.I. Farouk, Y. Xu, C.T. Avedisian, F.L. Dryer, Combustion characteristics of primary reference fuel (PRF) droplets: Single stage high temperature combustion to multistage “Cool Flame” behavior, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2017, 36 (2): 2585-2594.
Y.C. Liu, Y. Xu, M.C. Hicks, C.T. Avedisian, Comprehensive study of initial diameter effects and other observations on convection-free droplet combustion in the standard atmosphere for n-heptane, n-octane, and n-decane, Combustion and Flame, 2016, 171: 27-41.
Y. Xu, I. Keresztes, A.M. Condo Jr, D. Phillips, P. Pepiot, C.T. Avedisian, Droplet combustion characteristics of algae-derived renewable diesel, conventional #2 diesel, and their mixtures, Fuel, 2016, 167: 295-305.
Y. Xu, C.T. Avedisian, Combustion of n-butanol, gasoline, and n-butanol/gasoline mixture droplets, Energy & Fuels, 2015, 29 (5): 3467-3475.
Y.C. Liu, Y. Xu, C.T. Avedisian, M.C. Hicks, The effect of support fibers on micro-convection in droplet combustion experiments, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2015, 35 (2): 1709-1716.
Y. Xu†, A. Hashmi†, G. Yu, X. Lu, H.-J. Kwon, X.L. Chen, J. Xu, Microbubble array for on-chip worm processing, Applied Physics Letters, 2013, 102 (2): 023702. (†equal contributors)
A. Hashmi†, Y. Xu†, B. Coder†, P.A. Osborne, J. Spafford, G.E. Michael, G. Yu, J. Xu, Leidenfrost levitation: beyond droplets, Scientific Reports, 2012, 2: 797. (†equal contributors)
