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Xianguo Li

Professor, Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering

Research interests: fuel cells, thermodynamics, energy, digital design and fabrication technologies

Biography

Xianguo Li is a Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering Professor at the University of Waterloo.

Professor Li's main research interests and activities are in the area of thermal fluid/science, including energy systems and energy storage, various energy conversion devices, propulsion and power generation systems, aerosol generation and applications, and transportation fuel cell and battery systems. These research projects involve thermodynamics, fluid dynamics, hydrodynamic stability, multiphase flow, heat and mass transfer, liquid atomization and sprays, combustion, power generation and propulsion systems.

Professor Li is also the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Green Energy, which established the International Green Energy Conference series and launched the annual review series Progress in Green Energy. He is currently serving on the editorial board of dozens of international scientific/technical journals, book series on fuel cells and energy systems, as well as an encyclopaedia on Energy Engineering and Technology.

Professor Li is a fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada and a fellow of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering (CSME), and serves as the CSME Division Chair for the Advanced Energy Systems technical division.

Education

Doctorate, Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, 1989
Master's, Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, 1986
Bachelor's, Thermal Energy Engineering, Tianjin University, 1982

Research

Research Interests

Fuel Cells
Spray Dynamics
Fluid Dynamics
Heat And Mass Transfer
Power Generation
Propulsion Systems
Thermodynamics
Fire Suppression
Energy
Automotive
Additive Manufacturing
Digital Design And Fabrication Technologies
Alternative Fuel
Hybrid And Electric Vehicles
Energy Storage
Power Systems
Advanced Manufacturing
Renewable Energy

Publications

Recent publications include:

Shahgaldi, Samaneh and Alaefour, Ibrahim and Unsworth, Grant and Li, Xianguo, Development of a low temperature decal transfer method for the fabrication of proton exchange membrane fuel cells, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 42(16), 2017, 11813 - 11822
Ghasemi, Abbas and Pereira, Aaron and Li, Xianguo and Ren, Yi, Multi-plume sprays interacting with subsonic compressible gas jets, Applied Energy, 190, 2017, 623 - 633
Ghasemi, Abbas and Pereira, Aaron and Li, Xianguo, Large Eddy Simulation of Compressible Subsonic Turbulent Jet Starting From a Smooth Contraction Nozzle, Flow, Turbulence and Combustion, 98(1), 2017, 83 - 108
Ren, Yi and Li, Xianguo, Assessment and validation of liquid breakup models for high-pressure dense diesel sprays, Frontiers in Energy, 10(2), 2016, 164 - 175
Saha, Kaushik and Li, Xianguo, Assessment of Cavitation Models for Flows in Diesel Injectors With Single-and Two-Fluid Approaches, Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, 138(1), 2016

Please see Xianguo Li's Google Scholar profile for a current list of his peer-reviewed articles.