10 Facts About Yuwen Zhang

Yuwen Zhang is a Chinese American professor of mechanical engineering who is well known for his contributions to phase change heat transfer.

Yuwen Zhang is presently a Curators' Distinguished Professor and Huber and Helen Croft Chair in Engineering in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri.

Yuwen Zhang was born in 1964 in Xiaoyi, Shanxi, China and spent his early life there until 1981 when he graduated from Chengguan High School and was admitted to college.

Yuwen Zhang taught at Xi'an Jiaotong University from 1991 to 1994 and was a research associate at Wright State University and University of Connecticut.

Yuwen Zhang was a research scientist at University of Connecticut and a senior engineer at Thermoflow, Inc before joining the Department of Mechanical Engineering at New Mexico State University as an assistant professor in 2001.

Yuwen Zhang joined the faculty at the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Missouri in 2003 as an associate professor and became a full professor in 2009.

Yuwen Zhang was awarded a James C Dowell Professorship in 2012 and served as the Department Chair from 2013 to 2017.

Yuwen Zhang was named a Curators' Distinguished Professor in 2020 and a Huber and Helen Croft Chair in Engineering in 2021.

Yuwen Zhang has published over 300 journal papers and more than 180 conference publications at national and international conferences.

Yuwen Zhang is the first to develop fundamental models of fluid flow and heat transfer in the oscillating heat pipes, which is a heat transfer device that can be used in thermal management of electronic devices and energy systems.