报告摘要

 

普林斯顿大学是美国航空和燃烧研究的最有影响的研究机构之一。她曾经有着辉煌的过去，但今天却面临新的选择。报告通过回顾普林斯顿大学航空系的创立和发展的历史，介绍其成功地创建一个一流的航空系的经验和现在的研究队伍。但是，随着美国航空航天研究的投入的下降，传统的航空研究正面临转型。同时，日益增加的能源，环境，地球温暖化的问题也给航空研究带来机遇。报告通过介绍最近美国大学航空和燃烧研究的动向，共同探讨如何建立一个21世纪的新的国际一流的航空研究中心。

 

报告人简介

Yiguang Ju received his undergraduate BSE from Tsinghua University in 1986, and his PhD degree from Tohoku University (Japan) in 1994.  He was appointed to the assistant and associate professor ranks at Tohoku University in 1995 and 1998, and as a ChangJiang Professor and Director of Thermophysics Institute at Tsinghua University in 2000. He joined Princeton University as an assistant professor in 2001 and became a full professor in 2011. Prof. Ju’s research interests include combustion theory, modeling and diagnostics in the area of near limit combustion, microscale combustion, alternative fuels, chemical kinetics, plasma assisted propulsion, and functional nanomaterials. He has published more than 130 refereed journal publications. He is an ASME Fellow and a board member of Combustion Institute of Eastern States. He received many awards including the Young Investigators Award (1999) at the First Asia Pacific Conference on Combustion, the Best Paper Award (1999) by the Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Sciences, the Yangzi River Scholar Award (2000) by the Chinese Education Ministry, the National Outstanding Young Scholar award from NSFC (2001), the Distinguished Paper Award from the Thirty-third International Symposium on Combustion (2010), the NASA Director’s Certificate of Appreciation award (2011), and the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2011).