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RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Physics and Fractals in Transport in Porous media;
  • Complex Networks and Applications;
  • Transport in Nanofluids;
  • Computation in Condensed Matter Physics
RESEARCH FUNDING
  • Fractal analysis of transport properties in porous media, National Natural Science Founding of China (2003.1-2005.12)
  • Fractal analysis of parameters of non-linear transport properties in porous media, National Natural Science Founding of China (2006.1-2008.12)

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS
  • Proposed analytical models for fractal dimensions for single-phase, two-phase and multi-phase fractal media;
  • Proposed analytical models for transport properties (thermal, flow resistance, permeabilities) for Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluid flow in porous media;
  • Proposed analytical models for fractal dimension for tortuous capillaries in porous media;
  • Proposed analytical thermal conductivity models (both fractal and conventional) for porous media;
  • Proposed analytical thermal conductivity models (both fractal and conventional) for nanofluids;
  • Proposed analytical fractal models for boiling heat transfer, including CHF and nanofluids;
  • Transport properties (thermal, fluid flow and electrical) in fractal branching tree-networks;
  • Corrected come erroneous models for fractal geometry in porous media;
  • Referee for the national “863” plan for “resources and environment technologies”;
  • Member of Committee of Complex Science;
  • Member of Committee of Seepage Mechanics in Fluid Mechanics Society of China.
     
PUBLICATIONS
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1. Boming Yu, Jianchao Cai, Mingqing Zou, On the physical 
    properties of apparent two-phase fractal porous media,
   Vadose Zone J. 8(1): 177-186(2009).
2. Boming Yu, Analysis of flow in fractal porous media,
    Appl. Mech. Rev. 61, 050801-1-19(2008).
3. Boming Yu， Comments on “Fractal fragmentation, soil
    porosity, and soil water properties: I. Theory”,
    Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 71, p.632, (2007). 
4. Boming Yu and Baowen Li, Fractal-like tree networks reducing
    the thermal conductivity, Phys. Rev. E 73, 066302 (2006). 
5. Boming Yu, Fractal dimensions of multiphase fractal media,
    Fractals, 14(2): 111-118(2006). 
6. Boming Yu, Mingqing Zou and Yongjin Feng, Permeability of
    fractal porous media by Monte Carlo simulations, Int. J. Heat &
    Mass Transfer, 48(13): 2787-2794 (2005).
7. 郁伯铭，多孔介质输运性质的分形分析研究进展，
    力学进展， 33(3): 333-346(2003).
8. Boming Yu and Ping Cheng, A fractal model for permeability of
    bi-dispersed porous media, Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer, Vol. 45,
    No. 14, 2983-2993(2002).
9. Boming Yu and Ping Cheng, A fractal model for nucleate pool
    boiling heat transfer, J. Heat Transfer 124, No.6, 1117-1124
    (2002).
10.Boming Yu and Jianhua Li, Some fractal characters of porous
     media, Fractals 9, No.3, 365-372(2001).
 
Totally more than 100 journal papers have been published, and among them totally more than 90 SCI journal papers.
FRACTAL GROUP
1 Postdoc, 1 Visiting Scholar, 5 Ph.D. students, 6 M.S. students.


Prof. Boming Yu (郁伯铭)

Condensed Matter Physics
School of Physics, Huazhong University of Science & Technology
Email: yuboming2003@yahoo.com.cn

ABOUT
Professor Boming Yu was majored in Engineering Physics and graduated from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 1970, and majored in Nuclear Reactor Engineering and received M.S. degree in Tsinghua University in 1982. Prof. Yu serves Professor of Physics at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China since 1996 until the present

AWARDS
2007 Excellent Supervisor Award for Students, HUST
2007 Excellent Supervisor Award for Student's Degree
        Paper, Hubei Province

PROFESSIOANL ACTIVITIES
Visiting Scholar at the Ohio State University,U.S.A. from 1996.10 to 1999.12;
Visiting Scholar at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology from 2000.7-2000.10;
Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore from 2005.7-2005.9

PIONEER REFEREE FOR:
Physical Review journals;
AIChE Journal;
Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer;
Transport in Porous Media;
Chem. Eng. Sci.;
Fractals;
J. Power Sources;
Advances Water Res.;
ASME J. Heat Transfer;
Vadose Zone Journal;
Int. J. Thermal Sciences;
Sciences in Chinese;
Chinese Physics Letters;