Biography
Prof. Jiujiang Zhu
Prof. Jiujiang Zhu
University of Wuyi, China
Title: Large Eddy Simulation of Turbulent Flow in the Interface of the Soil Surface Using Gray Lattice Boltzmann Model
Abstract: 
Turbulent Flow in the boundary layer near the solid wall had attracted significant attention from both scientific research and engineering application in the last two decades. Turbulent Flow in the interface of the soil surface is similar to but much complicated than the turbulent flow in the boundary layer near the wall. The biomass and solute transportation underneath the soil surface is mainly related to the air flow velocity profile within the porous media of soil. In this presentation, we will report the numerical simulation results of turbulent flow in the soil interface. A continuous velocity profile from out layer to inner layer and sublayer until porous media of soil was predicted. The critical issue of the simulation is how to model turbulent structure across the soil interface. In the out layer and inner layer, a modified Prandtl’s Mixing Length method was adopted to model turbulent viscosity, which was integrated into Lattice Boltzmann Large Eddy Simulation. In the sublayer, the turbulent structure was controlled by a turbulent background viscosity. The air flow within soil was simulated using our Gray Lattice Boltzmann Model. The simulation results demonstrated the velocity profile within porous media of soil was significantly affected by the turbulent background viscosity within a sublayer.
Biography: 
An experienced mathematician with thermodynamics and continuum mechanics background; has 20 years teaching experience in international universities; has more than 30 years research experience in Singapore, UK, US and China; has worked successfully in a number of different research area such as solid and fluid mechanics, materials science, image analysis, computational biology and computational fluid dynamics, has particular skill for mathematical modeling and numerical simulation; was awarded “One Hundred Excellent Young Scientists” by Chinese Academy of Sciences in year 1997.