Xiangdong Li

Dr. Xiangdong Li

Research Fellow

Details

  • College: STEM Research & Innovation
  • Department: Research & Innovation
  • Campus: Bundoora East Australia
  • xiangdong.li@rmit.edu.au

About

Dr Xiangdong Li is a CFD modeller and researcher within School of Engineering, RMIT University


Honours and awards:
2019, Teaching Excellence Award, SWJTU-OSU Joint Degree Program
2018, Certificate of Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing, International Journal of Thermal Sciences
2016, Certificate of Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing, Building and Environment
2015, Best Paper of The Year, Engineering Thermophysics Society of China
2014, Best Paper Award, Journal of Building Simulation
2011, Australian Postdoctoral Industry (APDI) Fellowship, the Australian Research Council

Research fields

  • 4012 Fluid mechanics and thermal engineering
  • 3302 Building
  • 4005 Civil engineering
  • 3301 Architecture
  • 4017 Mechanical engineering
  • 3303 Design
  • 3304 Urban and regional planning
  • 4004 Chemical engineering
  • 4019 Resources engineering and extractive metallurgy
  • 4905 Statistics

Academic positions

  • Research Fellow (Advanced), School of Engineering
  • RMIT University
  • Melbourne, Australia
  • Jun 2021 – Present
  • Research Fellow, School of Engineering
  • RMIT University
  • Melbourne, Australia
  • Jun 2010 – Jun 2020
  • Research Assistant,
  • Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  • , China
  • Apr 2007 – Jun 2010

Supervisor projects

  • Transport and Distribution Characteristics of Contaminants in Commercial Airliner Cabins
  • 10 Dec 2019
  • Comprehensive Optimization of Air Quality in High Speed Rail Cabins Using CFD
  • 17 Apr 2015
  • Numerical modelling of bubbly flows in nanofluids with and without heat transfer
  • 24 Sep 2014

Teaching interests

Gas-Particle fluids in occupied environments, Heat transfer by nucleate boiling of nanofluids, Computational Fluid Dynamics

Research interests

Interdisciplinary Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Other Mathematical Sciences, Other Built Environment and Design, Public Health and Health Services, Engineering Design

Fields of expertise
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Multiphase flows
Heat transfer enhancement (incl. micro/nanoscale heat and mass transfer)
HVAC and indoor environment
Higher education (engineering)

Involved research projects
2021 – 22, Victorian Higher Education State Investment Fund: Digitisation for COVID-safe workplaces
2014 – 20, Railway Manufacturing CRC: Experimental and numerical investigation on the key ventilation issues affecting air quality in HSR cabins
2012 – 13, Enterprise Connect – RiB: Improving the efficiency of a forward curved blower system
2011 – 13: Australian Research Council (LP110100140): Developing an integrated predictive model for optimal design of ventilation systems in buildings

Initiatives and links

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Acknowledgement of Country

RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.