This document is a curriculum vitae for Zhang Yang that includes his personal and contact information, education background, research interests in areas like combustor-turbine leakage gaps and experimental methodology using pressure sensitive paint, projects he has worked on, and publications and honors. He received his undergraduate degree from Northwestern Polytechnical University in aerospace engineering and is currently pursuing graduate studies in power engineering and thermal physics at Tsinghua University.

1. Curriculum Vitae
Zhang Yang
Gender Male Research Field:
1) Combustor-Turbine Leakage Gap
Flow/ Rotor-Stator Purge Flow;
2) Experimental Methodology Using
Pressure Sensitive Paint (PSP);
3) Real Geometry Effects: Fillets, Slot
Geometry & Leakage Gap Geometry.
Date of Birth 16 JULY 1987
Nationality P.R.China
Mobile/Cell Number +86-15210895295
Mail Address
Department of Thermal Engineering,
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Zip code: 100084
E-mail yangzhang09@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn
Education Background:
Sep. 2009—
(Graduate Study)
Tsinghua University
Power Engineering and Thermal Physics,
Department of Thermal Engineering
Oct. 2012—Mar.2013
(Academic Visitor)
University of Oxford
Thermal Fluids Engineering,
Osney Lab, Department of Engineering
Sep. 2005—Aug. 2009
(Undergraduate Study)
Northwestern Polytechnical University
Aerospace Engineering,
School of Energy and Power Engineering
Publications:
[1] Zhang Yang, Yuan Xin, 2010, “Experimental Investigation about the Effects of Off-deign Condition
on the Turbine Vane Endwall Film Cooling”, Annual conference of engineering thermophysics 2010,
Nanjing, China, Paper No. 102092
[2] Zhang Yang, Qi Shibo, and Yuan Xin, 2010, “Experimental Investigation on the Turbine Blade
Platform Film Cooling Effected By the Flow Field”, Journal of Engineering Thermophysics, Vol.32, No.6
P.941-944（EI: 20112514079438）
[3] Zhang Yang, Yuan Xin, 2011, “Film Cooling Effectiveness Distribution on First-Stage Vane
Endwall With and Without Leading-Edge Fillets Part I：Effect of Leading Edge Geometry”, ASME Turbo
Expo 2011: Power for Land, Sea, and Air, Vancouver, Canada, ASME Paper No.GT2011-45427（EI:
20123615387431）
[4] Zhang Yang, Yuan Xin, 2011, “Film Cooling Effectiveness Distribution on First-Stage Vane Endwall
With and Without Leading-Edge Fillets Part II：Effect of Incidence Angle”, ASME Turbo Expo 2011:
Power for Land, Sea, and Air, Vancouver, Canada, ASME Paper No.GT2011-45428（EI: 20123615387432 ）
[5] Zhang Yang, Yuan Xin, 2011, “Turbine Endwall Film Cooling With Combustor-Turbine Interface
Gap Leakage Flow: Effect of Incidence Angle”, 10th
International Symposium on Experimental and
Computational Aerothermodynamics of Internal Flows - ISAIF10, Brussels, Belgium, ISAIF Paper No.114
[6] Zhang Yang, Yuan Xin, 2011, “The Influence of Periodic Unsteady Wakes on Endwall Film Cooling
with Combustor-Turbine Interface Gap Leakage Flow”, International Gas Turbine Congress
2011-IGTC'11, Osaka, Japan, IGTC Paper No.IGTC2011-0126
[7] Zhang Yang, Yuan Xin, 2011, “Endwall Film Cooling with Curving Slot Leakage Flow”, Annual
conference of engineering thermophysics 2011, Wuhan, China, Paper No. 112079
[8] Zhang Yang, Yuan Xin, 2012, “Experimental Investigation of Turbine Phantom Cooling with
Combustor-Turbine Interface Gap Leakage Flow”, ASME Turbo Expo 2012: Power for Land, Sea, and Air,
Copenhagen, Denmark, ASME Paper No.GT2012-69295 （EI: 20133316600337）
[9] Zhang Yang, Yuan Xin, 2012, “Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Turbine Suction Side
Phantom Cooling”, Annual conference of engineering thermo physics 2012, Harbin, China, Paper No.
122017
[10] Zhang Yang, Yuan Xin, 2013, “Turbine Endwall Film Cooling With Combustor-Turbine Interface
Gap Leakage Flow: Effect of Incidence Angle”, JOURNAL OF THERMAL SCIENCE Volume: 22 No 2
Page: 135-144 DOI: 10.1007/s11630-013-0604-3 : APR 2013（SCI：WOS:000315936000007）
[11] Zhang Yang, Yuan Xin, 2013, “Endwall Film Cooling with Slot Leakage Flow：Effects of Incidence
Angle”, Journal of Engineering Thermophysics, volume 33, Issue 12 （EI: 20130215883556 ）
[12] Zhang Yang, Yuan Xin, 2012, “Effect of incidence angle on gas turbine first-stage nozzle guide

2. vane leading edge and gill region film cooling”, ASME Turbo Expo 2012: Power for Land, Sea, and Air,
Copenhagen, Denmark, ASME Paper No.GT2012-69298 （EI: 20133316600338）
[13] Zhang Yang, Gou Jinlan, Yuan Xin, 2012, “Effect of Compound Angle on Leading Edge Film
Cooling With Shaped Holes Using PSP”, Journal of Engineering Thermophysics, Vol.34, No.5 P. 826-829
（EI: 20132416422129）
[14] Zhang Yang, Yuan Xin, 2013, “Turbine Endwall Film Cooling with Pressure Side Radial Holes”,
ASME Turbo Expo 2013: Power for Land, Sea, and Air, San Antonio, Texas, USA, ASME Paper No. GT2013-
95273 （EI: 20135117101612）
[15] Zhang Yang, Yuan Xin, 2013, “Endwall Film Cooling Using The Staggered Combustor-Turbine
Gap Leakage Flow”, ASME Turbo Expo 2014: Power for Land, Sea, and Air, Düsseldorf, Germany, ASME
Paper No. GT2014-26771（Accepted）
[16] Zhang Yang, Yuan Xin, 2013, “Experimental Investigation Of Turbine Phantom Cooling On
Endwall With Trailing Edge Discharge Flow”, ASME Turbo Expo 2014: Power for Land, Sea, and Air, Dü
sseldorf, Germany, ASME Paper No. GT2014-26781 （Accepted）
[17] Zhang Yang, Yuan Xin, 2013, “Experimental Investigation On Nonperiodic Endwall Film Cooling
In Neighboring Passages with Upstream Rotating Flow”, ASME Turbo Expo 2014: Power for Land, Sea,
and Air, Düsseldorf, Germany, ASME Paper No. GT2014-26824 （Accepted）
Projects:
2009-2010 Special Funds for Major State Basic Research Projects (Grant No. 2007CB210108)
“Research on Complex Internal Flow in Turbomachinery”
2009-2011 National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 50676043)
“Research on Conjugate Heat Transfer in Gas Turbine”
Honors and Awards:
Honors: Tsinghua-Baogang Heavy Industries Scholarship THU, 2013
Tsinghua-Guanghua Scholarship THU, 2012
Tsinghua-Takata Scholarship THU, 2011
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Scholarship THU, 2010
Excellent Graduate, Shaanxi Province, 2009
The Outstanding Academic Scholarship, NWPU, 2008
China Gas Turbine Establishment Scholarship, NWPU,2008
Outstanding Student Cadre Scholarship, NWPU, 2007
“Ai Sheng” Scholarship for undergraduate, NWPU,2007
“Hong Kong, Macao and Guangdong” Scholarship, NWPU,2006
Outstanding Student Scholarship, NWPU, 2006
Awards:
First Prize 2011 GE Foundation TECH AWARD, GE Company 2011
First Prize 4th
Aircraft Design Competition in Tsinghua University 2011
Second Prize 3rd
National Aircraft Design Competition 2008
Second Prize 3rd
Innovative Aviation Technology Competition 2008
First Prize 4th
School Aircraft Design Competition 2008
Third Prize 10th
"Challenge Cup" National Science and Technology Competition 2007
Third Prize 2nd
National Computer Aided Design Competition 2007
Second Prize 8th
Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling 2007
First Prize 10th
"Challenge Cup" Science and Technology Competition (Shaanxi) 2007
First Prize 11th
“Imagine Cup” for Innovative Technology Competition 2007
First Prize 8th
Aviation Knowledge Competition in Northwestern Poly. University 2007
Second Place 2nd
National Aircraft Design Competition 2006
First Prize 2nd
Aircraft Design Competition in Northwestern Poly. University 2006