About me

Changxu MIAO

Education background

2019–2020: Imperial College London (London, UK), Biomedical Engineering (Biomechanics), Master;

2018–2019: École Centrale de Lyon (Lyon, France), Acoustics, Master;

2017–2019: INSA-Lyon (Lyon, France), Mechanical Engineering, Master;

2014–2019: Northwestern Polytechnical University (Xi'an, China), Engineering Mechanics, Bachelor;

Publication

  • Miao, C., & Wei, H. (2021). Modeling electroactuation of polyelectrolyte gel in liquid solution. 中国力学大会 (The Chinese Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics) (Oral presentation)

  • Dai, J., Liu, Y., Liu, H., Miao, C., & Tong, G. (2019). A parametric study on thermo-mechanical vibration of axially functionally graded material pipe conveying fluid. International Journal of Mechanics and Materials in Design, 15(4), 715-726.

Working experience

2020.12-Present: Individual Scientific Project (SUSTech, CHINA)

  • Research Assistant at Lab of Soft Mechanics of Prof Wei Hong;

  • Topic: Modeling electroactuation of polyelectrolyte gel in liquid solution;

  • Modeled polyelectrolyte gel and its surrounding electrolyte bath under frame of non-equilibrium thermodynamics;

  • Used Weak form PDE of COMSOL Multiphysics to investigate response of rod-like gel to external electric field;

  • Quantitatively revealed how enrichment and depletion of mobile ions in solution trigger deflection of gel;

11/2019-11/2020: Individual Scientific Project (Imperial College London, UK)

  • Topic: Control analysis of mechanosensitive nitric oxide signaling in aqueous humour outflow in human eye;

  • Used Simulink to establish lumped-element model of aqueous humour outflow system under regulation of nitric oxide;

  • Extracted parameters describing the modulation of nitric oxide on stiffness of trabecular meshwork and resistance of endothelium from ex vivo eye perfusion test;

  • Successfully reproduced reversibility of washout effect in ex vivo perfusion test and predicted control behavior for in vivo eyes;

03/2019-09/2019: Internship (ALSTOM-Paris, FRANCE)

  • Topic: Prediction of noise reduction inside HVAC duct system (Heating, Ventilation and Air Condition);

  • Used Actran & Python Optimization tool to extract Biot parameters of porous silencer layer in Kundt's tube model by fitting measured absorption coefficient;

  • Numerically predicted attenuation performance of specific porous material by ASHRAE handbook, Boundary Element Method (VAone) and Lattice Boltzmann Method (Powerflow);

  • Experimentally evaluated attenuation performance of silencer by measuring sound pressure level and sound power level along sound path in duct system;

05/2016-04/2017; Group Project (NWPU, CHINA)

  • Topics: Dynamic Simulation of Carbon Nanotubes Based on differential quadrature method;

  • Simplified carbon nanotube as 1D nonlocal Eringen's Euler-Bernoulli beam;

  • Considered thermo-elastic behavior and nonlocal effect of nanotube, and fluid transported inside;

  • Used Matlab to investigate dynamic behavior of tube and bifurcation of vibration in respect to different fluid velocity with differential quadrature method;

Languages and skills

🇨🇳Chinese; 🇬🇧English; 🇫🇷French;

Programme skills: Matlab, Python, Fortran, Labview;

Scientific Software: COMSOL Multiphysics, Abaqus, Adams, Catia, VAone, Actran, PowerFlow.

Awards

  • 2017-2018; China Scholarship Council Scholarship (For excellent oversea students);

  • 2015-2016; National Scholarship (For the top 2% of students in their major);

  • 2014-2015; National Encouragement Scholarship (For the top 5% students in their major);

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