Prof. Zhi Zong

Vice President of Liaoning Shipbuilding Society

Fuyao University of Science and Technology, China

Biography:

Zong Zhi is a professor at Fuyao University of Science and Technology. He obtained his Ph.D. in Ship Engineering from Hiroshima University in Japan in 1995. Afterward, he joined the Singapore Institute of High Performance Computing as a senior and chief research engineer, focusing on underwater explosion and computational mechanics research. In 2004, he joined Dalian University of Technology in China as a professor. Professor Zong has served as the dean of the School of Ship Engineering and the deputy director of the National Laboratory for Structural Analysis of Industrial Equipment. He is currently employed at Fuyao University of Science and Technology. He is also a member of the editorial boards of more than ten international and local journals. He has published over 340 papers, of which 190 are included in the SCI database. He has authored seven monographs, three of which were published by Elsevier, CRC, and Lambert Academic. Professor Zong is actively engaged in research areas such as fluid mechanics, computational mechanics, and ocean engineering. He discovered the splash resistance of trimaran vessels and a new form of solitary waves. He developed a variable topology boundary element method to simulate the jet formation after bubble collapse, which is widely used in underwater explosion research. He has also improved the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) and Discrete Vortex Method to achieve better simulation results for water wave evolution, ship motion in waves, impacts, water entry, and vortex-induced vibrations. He has received multiple awards, including first and second prizes for technological advancement from the Ministry of Education and several awards from the Ocean Engineering Consulting Association.

Prof. Sanjeev Sanghi

Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India

Biography:

Sanjeev Sanghi is Professor and Chair of the Applied Mechanics Department at Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. Having obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from I.I.T. Kanpur, he worked with John Lumley in turbulence modelling for his M.S. from Cornell University. He got his Ph.D. from the Levich Institute of the City College of City University of New York. He has been a recipient of the Ralph Boliagno award for being the most distinguished Teaching assistant at Cornell University and the Excellence in Teaching Award at I.I.T. Delhi. He was Member, Board of Governors, Head Educational Technology and Dean Alumni Affairs and International programmes at IIT Delhi. As Dean Alumni Affairs he set up a Global 1 Billion Dollars Alumni Endowment Fund for IIT Delhi. Currently he is the Head of Applied Mechanics Department at IIT Delhi, where he has spearheaded a new B. Tech. programme in Engineering and Computational Mechanics.He is recognized globally for work on Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD), Chaos and Low Dimensional Modelling, Development of New Discretization Schemes in Computational Fluid Dynamics and Modelling of Turbulent Flows. He has applied POD to near wall turbulent flows, rotating flows with natural convection and flows in a square duct. His work on outflow boundary condition for unsteady flows in open domains for incompressible flows demonstrates a novel way to reduce domain size in open flows. He has also developed a new upwinding scheme for compressible flows which is more efficient than the existing schemes. Through a series of works, he has established the phenomena of supression of turbulence with an increase in heat transfer for configurations like channel flow and rotating flows in confined cavities. He has been Invited to deliver lecture on these topics in more than 30 universities in Asia, Europe, Africa, USA, South America and Australia.He is acclaimed to be one of the best teachers at IIT Delhi and has won distinguished teaching awards from IIT Delhi, Cornell University and C.V. Kapur Foundation. He has co-authored the recent version of Beer and Johnston texts on Vector Mechanics and Mechanics of Materials. In 2008, he helped set up a collaborative distance education M. Tech. with Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia with transmission of classes taught by Professors at IIT Delhi to Ethiopia by video conferencing. He was invited as a visiting professor to University of Sussex, UK in 2007-2008. He has held several administrative positions at IIT Delhi including Member, Board of Governors, Head, Educational Technology Centre. Co-ordinator, QIP and CEP, Chairman, Faculty Forum and Convenor for the interdisciplinary group on Transportation Research, TRIPP.