Research Area:
Transient Study of Turbulent Flow and Particle Transport during Continuous Steel Casting (Ph.D. Thesis, Sponsored by NSF)
Education:
| Bachelors |
Aerospace Engineering
Beijing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics (BUAA) |
1996 |
| Masters |
Aerospace Engineering
Beijing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics (BUAA) |
1999 |
| Ph.D. |
Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
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Professional Activities:
Member, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Member, The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS)
Member, Association for Iron and Steel Technology (AIST)
Member, The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi
Awards:
| 2003 |
Robert W. Hunt Silver Medal, Association for Iron and Steel Technology |
| 1999 |
Excellent Master Thesis, BUAA |
| 1998 |
Guanghua Fellowship, BUAA |
| 1997 |
Outstanding Graduate Student Fellowship, BUAA |
| 1996 |
Outstanding Graduate, BUAA |
| 1993-1996 |
Renmin Fellowship, BUAA |
Selected Publications:
Q. Yuan, B.G. Thomas and S.P. Vanka: "Study of Transient Flow and Particle Transport in Continuous Steel Caster Molds: Part I. Fluid Flow", Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B, 2004, in print.
Q. Yuan, B.G. Thomas and S.P. Vanka: "Study of Transient Flow and Particle Transport during Continuous Steel Caster Molds: Part II. Particle Transport", Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B, 2004, in print.
Q. Yuan, S. Sivaramakrishnan, B.G. Thomas and S.P. Vanka: “Computational and Experimental Study of Turbulent Flow in a 0.4-Scale Water Model of a Continuous Steel Caster”, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B, 2004, submitted.
Q. Yuan, B. Zhao, S.P. Vanka , and B. G. Thomas: “Study of Computational Issues in Simulation of Transient Flow in Continuous Casting”, Steel Research International, 2004, in preparation.
B.G. Thomas, Q. Yuan, S. Sivaramakrishnan, T. Shi, S.P. Vanka and M.B. Assar: "Comparison of Four Methods to Evaluate Fluid Velocities in a Continuous Casting Mold", ISIJ International, 2001, vol. 41 (10), pp. 1262-1271.
Presentations:
Q. Yuan, B.G. Thomas and S.P. Vanka: "Turbulent Flow and Particle Motion in Continuous Slab-Casting Molds", ISSTech 2003, (Indianapolis, The Iron & Steel Society, 2003) 2003, pp. 923-937.
Q. Yuan, S.P. Vanka and B.G. Thomas: "Large Eddy Simulations of Transient Turbulent Flow during Continuous Slab Casting of Steel", 3rd International Symposium on Turbulent and Shear Flow Phenomena (TSFP3), (Sendai, Japan, June 25-27, 2003), 2003, pp. 681-686.
Q. Yuan, S.P. Vanka and B.G. Thomas: "Large Eddy Simulations of Turbulent Flow and Inclusion Transport in Continuous Casting of Steel", 2nd International Symposium on Turbulent and Shear Flow Phenomena (TSFP2), (Stockholm, Sweden, June 27-29, 2001), Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), pp.6, 2001.
Q. Yuan, T. Shi, B.G. Thomas and S.P. Vanka: "Simulation of Fluid Flow in the Continuous Casting of Steel", Proceedings: Computational Modeling of Materials, Minerals and Metals Processing, TMS, ed., (Seattle, WA, Feb. 18-20, 2002), TMS 2001, pp. 491-500.
Q. Yuan, S.P. Vanka and B.G. Thomas: "Large Eddy Simulation of Turbulent Flow and Inclusion Transport in Continuous Casting of Steel", APS/DFD 2000 (American Physical Society, Division of Fluid Dynamics 2000), Washington D.C, Nov. 19 - 21, 2000, Abstract GG.002.
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