Cheng LIU’s CFD Studio

 

Cheng Liu

Ph.D, Assistant Professor.

Marine Environment and Energy Engineering Division,

Research Institute for Applied Mechanics,

Kyushu University.

6-1 Kasuga-koen, Kasuga-city, Fukuoka, 816-8580, Japan.

Tel: +81-090-1367-2668

Email: liu@riam.kyushu-u.ac.jp

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Education

Sep. 2011-Oct. 2014 Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Engineering Sciences, Kyushu University, Japan.

                             Ph. D. in Engineering.

                             Dissertation: A Cartesian Grid Method for Free Surface Flow Interaction with Complex Geometry.

                             Supervisor: Prof. Changhong HU.

Sep. 2008-Jul. 2011   School of Resource and Environmental Science, Chongqing University, China.

                             M. S. in Engineering Mechanics.

                             Dissertation: An Extended Finite Element Method for Simulating Two-Phase Flows.

                             Supervisor: Prof. Bo YAN.

Sep. 2004-Jul. 2008   School of Resource and Environmental Science, Chongqing University, China.

                             B. S. in Engineering Mechanics.

 

Research Topics

Block-Structured AMR for Free Surface Flows

Block-Structured AMR for Fluid Structure Interactions

Block-Structured AMR for Incompressible Flows

Block-Structured AMR for Compressible Flows

Block-Structured AMR for Multi-medium Compressible Flows

High Resolution Scheme

Floating Wind Turbine

Tidal Current Turbine

Ship Wave Interaction

Elliptic Problems

Immersed Boundary Method

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Positions and Employment

Oct. 2014-Apr. 2018 Research Fellow (学術研究員).     Research Institute for Applied Mechanics, Kyushu University, Japan.

Apr. 2018-Present    Research Fellow (助教).     Research Institute for Applied Mechanics, Kyushu University, Japan.

 

Honors and Awards

Oct. 2011-Sep.2014  Japanese Government (Monbukagakusho) Scholarship.

 

Research Project

Oct. 2014-Mar.2016  NEDO Project: Technology Development for Next Generation Ocean Energy Converter

Apr. 2016-Mar.2018 University-Industry Collaboration Research Project: Development of New Type Floating Offshore Wind Turbine System

Apr. 2018-Mar.2019 University-Industry Collaboration Research Project: CFD Prediction of Natural Gas Diffusion for a LNG-fueled Ship

 

Journal Paper

Submitted

[1]. C. Liu*, C. Hu, Blocked Adaptive Method for Directly Numerical Simulation of Interfacial Flows, Journal of Computational Physics, under review.

[2]. C. Liu*, C. Hu, Block-Based Adaptive Mesh Refinement for Fluid Structure Interactions in Incompressible Flows, Computer Physics Communication, under revision.

[3]. C. Liu*, C. Hu, Simulation of Multiple Tidal Turbines with Actuator line - Immersed Boundary Method, Renewable Energy, under revision.

[4]. C. Liu*, C. Hu, An Adaptive High Order WENO Solver for Conservation Laws, Communications in Computational Physics, under revision.

 

Published

[5]. C. Hu*, C. Liu, Simulation of Violent Free Surface Flow by AMR Method, Journal of Hydrodynamics, (2018) accepted.

[6]. M. K. Mohd, N. Mohd, C. Liu, M. Sueyoshi, C. Hu*, Numerical and experimental investigation of three-dimensionality in the dam-break flow against a vertical wall, Journal of Hydrodynamics, (2018) accepted.

[7]. C. Liu*, C. Hu, An adaptive multi-moment FVM approach for incompressible flows, Journal of Computational Physics, (2018) 359: 239-262. Link

[8]. C. Liu*, C. Hu, Adaptive THINC-GFM for compressible multi-medium flows, Journal of Computational Physics, (2017), 342: 43-65. Link

[9]. C. Liu*, C. Hu, An Immersed Boundary Solver for Inviscid Compressible Flows, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, (2017), 85: 619-640. Link

[10].    C. Liu*, C. Hu, A Second Order Ghost Fluid Method for an Interface Problem of the Poisson Equation, Communications in Computational Physics, (2017), 22(4): 965-996. Link

[11].    C. Hu*, C. Liu, Development of Cartesian grid method for simulation of violent ship-wave interactions, Journal of Hydrodynamics, (2016), 28(6): 1003-1010. Link

[12].    C. Liu, C. Hu*, An efficient immersed boundary treatment for complex moving object, Journal of Computational Physics, (2014), 274: 654-680. Link

[13].    C. Hu*, M. Sueyoshi, C. Liu, et al. Hydrodynamic Analysis of a Semi-Submersible Type Floating Wind Turbine, Journal of Ocean and Wind Energy, (2014); 1: 202-208.

[14].    C. Liu, B. Yan*, N. Hu, A Corrected XFEM for Two-Phase Flow (in Chinese), Chinese Journal of Chongqing University, (2013), 36 (3):121-127.

[15].    J. Liu; B. Yan*, L. Zhao, C. Liu, FEM/ MLPG coupling algorithm using transform matrices (in Chinese), Chinese Journal of Computational Mechanics, (2010), 27: 596-600.

[16].    B. Yan*; C. Liu; J. Liu; L. Zhao, Repair efficiency of cracked panel repaired by a piezoelectric patch (in Chinese), Chinese Journal of Chongqing University, 2009, 32(9): 950-954.

[17].    N. Jiang*, H. Zhao, J. Liu, C. Liu, Y. Lu, FE-Meshfree Coupled Method for Calculating Stress Intensity Factor of Circumferential Through-Wall Crack on Pipes (in Chinese), Nuclear Power Engineering, 2009, 30(10): 71-74.

 

Conference Paper

 

[18].    C. Liu, C. Hu, Numerical simulation of breaking waves using adaptive mesh approach, The 32nd Intentional Workshop on Water Waves and Floating Bodies, Brest, France, 2018.

[19].    C. Hu, C. Liu, Simulation of Violent Free Surface Flow by AMR-IBM Method, 10th International Workshop on Ship and Marine Hydrodynamics, Keelung, Taiwan, 2017.

[20].    C. Hu, C. Liu, CFD Simulation and experimental measurement of the wake of a horizontal tidal current turbine, The 3rd Asian Wave and Tidal Energy Conference, Singapore, 2016.

[21].    C. Hu, C. Liu, Improvement of Immersed Boundary Method for Simulation of Fluid-Structure Interaction, The 31st Intentional Workshop on Water Waves and Floating Bodies, Michigan, USA, 2016.

[22].    C. Liu, C. Hu, Block-Structured AMR method for High Accurate Shock Wave Capturing Schemes, The 29th Computational Fluid Dynamics Symposium (第29回数値流体力学シンポジウム), Fukuoka, Japan, 2015.

[23].    C. Liu, C. Hu, Numerical Prediction of the Hydrodynamic Performance of Horizontal Tidal Turbines, ASME 34th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, St. John's, Canada, 2015.

[24].    C. Hu, C. Liu, Development and Validation of RANS CFD Model for Hydrodynamic Prediction of a Horizontal Tidal Current Turbine, Proceedings of the 11th European Wave and Tidal Conference, Nantes, France, 2015.

[25].    C. Liu, C. Hu, CFD Simulation of a Floating Wind Turbine Platform in Rough Sea Conditions, The 24th International Ocean and Polar Engineering Conference, Busan, Korea, 2014.

[26].    C. Hu, M. Sueyoshi, C. Liu, Y. Liu, Hydrodynamic Analysis of a Semi-Submersible Type Floating Wind Turbine, The 11th Pacific/Asia Offshore Mechanics Symposium, Shanghai, China, 2014.

[27].    C. Hu, C. Liu, CFD Simulation of Violent Ship-Wave Interactions, The 1st International Conference on Computational Engineering and Science for Safety and Environmental Problems, Sendai, Japan, 2014.

[28].    C. Liu, C. Hu, Numerical Simulation of a Horizontal Axis Tidal Turbine Using OpenFOAM, Conference proceedings, the Japan Society of Naval Architects and Ocean Engineers (日本船舶海洋工学会講演会論文集), 19: 503-504, Nagasaki, Japan, 2014.

[29].    C. Hu, M. Sueyoshi, C. Liu, et al. Numerical and Experimental Study on a Floating Platform for Offshore Renewable Energy, ASME 32nd International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, Nantes, France, 2013.

[30].    C. Liu, C. Hu, CFD Numerical Simulation for Offshore Wind Turbine and Floating Platform, Proceedings of the 18th Conference on Computational Engineering and Science(第18回計算工学講演会), Tokyo, Japan, 2013.

[31].    C. Liu, C. Hu, Numerical simulation of the motion of floating wind turbine, The 7th International Symposium on the East Asian Environmental Problems, Fukuoka, Japan, 2013.

[32].    C. Liu, C. Hu, An Immersed Boundary Method for Simulating of Flow with Moving Body, The 27th Computational Fluid Dynamics Symposium (第27回数値流体力学シンポジウム), Nagoya, Japan, 2013.

[33].    C. Hu, C. Liu, Parallel Simulation of RIAM-CMEN for Strongly Nonlinear Wave-Ship Interaction, 2nd International Conference on Violent Flows, Nantes, France, 2012.

[34].    C. Liu, C. Hu, Parallel Implementation of CIP-based Method for Wave-Ship Interaction Simulation, Conference proceedings, the Japan Society of Naval Architects and Ocean Engineers (日本船舶海洋工学会講演会論文集), 14: 273-274, Kobe, Japan, 2012.

 

Seminar Talks

1)     C. Liu, C. Hu, CFD Simulation of a Tidal Current Farm by Using ACL Model, International RIAM Symposium on Ocean Renewable Energy Technologies and Related Fluid Dynamics Researches, Fukuoka, Japan, Jan. 2017.

2)     C. Liu, C. Hu, CFD Simulation of a Tidal Current Farm, International RIAM Symposium on Ocean Renewable Energy Technologies and Related Fluid Dynamics Researches, Fukuoka, Japan, Dec. 2015.

3)     C. Liu, C. Hu, Development of RANS CFD Model for Simulation of Tidal Current Turbine Farm, 第12回海洋エネルギーシンポジウム, 2015, Saga, Japan.

4)     C. Liu, C. Hu, CFD Simulation of a Horizontal Axis Tidal Turbine based on OpenFOAM, International RIAM Symposium on Ocean Renewable Energy Technologies and Related Fluid Dynamics Researches, Fukuoka, Japan, Dec. 2014.

5)     C. Liu, C. Hu, Recent Progress on CFD Development for Simulation of Floating Offshore Wind Turbine, International RIAM Symposium on Ocean Renewable Energy Technologies and Related Fluid Dynamics Researches, Fukuoka, Japan, Jan. 2014.

 

Research Experience

Apr. 2017-Present   Develop free surface flow solver on block structured adaptive mesh.

                             Keywords: adaptive mesh; high order schemes; 2rd order jump condition model; high efficient surface tracking method (THINC, CLSVOF); parallel computation.

Sep. 2016-Apr. 2017 Develop incompressible flow solver with high-resolution schemes and highly efficient meshing strategy.

                             Keywords: adaptive mesh; high order schemes (WENO-5, multi-moment FVM); immersed boundary method (MLS interpolation); highly efficient linear solver (PETSc, Hypre); parallel computation.

Nov. 2015-Sep. 2016     Develop multi-medium compressible flow solver for next stage wave impact study.

                             Keywords: adaptive mesh; high order schemes (hybrid WENO-5 and upwind-5); surface tracking method (Level set, THINC).

Feb. 2016-Jul. 2016 Propose a ghost immersed boundary method for compressible inviscid flow past complex geometrical rigid body.

                             Keywords: adaptive mesh; low dissipative schemes (WENO-3 scheme with new smooth indicators); ghost cell immersed boundary method; parallel computation.

Oct. 2015-Jul. 2016   Tidal current turbine wake modelling and array arrangement optimization.

                             Keywords: multiple tidal turbines; actuator line model; immersed boundary method (MLS interpolation); URANS; wall function model; parallel computation.

Sep. 2012-Apr. 2014     Numerical study on the hydrodynamics of floating wind turbine platform in large waves.

                             Keywords: CIP method; actuator line model; immersed boundary method (Quadratic interpolation); parallel computation.

Oct. 2011-Jue. 2012 Parallelization of the serial in-house code RIAN-CMEN for large scale parallel computation.

                             Keywords: MPI; overlap communication; block-pipelined method; parallel computation.