Ren Yihua
School of Engineering Sciences

Email: renyihua@ucas.ac.cn

Mailing Address:
Room 402, school building 1st, West Campus
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
1 Yanqihu East Road, Huairou District, Beijing

Postal Code: 101418

Personal Introduction:

Ren Yihua received his Bachelor's and Doctoral degrees from the Department of Energy and Power Engineering at Tsinghua University in 2013 and 2018, respectively. He has been employed at the School of Engineering of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences since 2023. He received the "Outstanding Young Scholar Grants" in 2022, the Bernard Lewis Young Combustion Award in 2020, and the Humboldt Fellowship in 2018. His main research areas include in-situ laser diagnostics, low-carbon fuels, flame synthesis of nanomaterials.


Research Areas

In-situ laser diagnostics

Low-carbon fuel combustion

Reinforcement learning of combustion

Education

2009-2013 Tsinghua University, B.C.

2013-2018 Tsinghua University, Ph.D.

Experience

2019-2020: Homboldt postdoc, ITV, RWTH Aachen

2021-2022: Research Scientist, ITV RWTH Aachen

2023-NOW: Assoc. Prof., UCAS

Work Experience

2019-2020: Homboldt postdoc, ITV, RWTH Aachen

2021-2022: Research Scientist, ITV RWTH Aachen

2023-NOW: Assoc. Prof., UCAS

Teaching Experience

Combustion Theory

In-situ laser diagnostic of thermal fluids

Publications

1.      Yihua Ren, Shuiqing Li*, Yiyang Zhang, Stephen D. Tse, Marshall Long.   Absorption-ablation-excitation mechanism of laser-cluster interactions in a   nanoaerosol system. Physical Review Letters, 2015,   114:093401.

2.      Yihua Ren, Yiyang Zhang, Shuiqing Li*. Simultaneous single-shot two-dimensional   imaging of nanoparticles and radicals in turbulent reactive flows. Physical   Review Applied, 2020, 13:044002.

3.      Yihua Ren*, Jinzhi Cai, Heinz Pitsch. Theoretical single droplet model for particle   formation in flame spray pyrolysis. Energy and Fuel, 2021, 35(2):   1750–1759.

4.      Dingyu Hou, Qian Mao, Yihua Ren*, and Kai H.   Luo*. Atomic insights into mechanisms of carbon coating on titania   nanoparticle during flame synthesis. Carbon 201   (2023): 189-199.

5.      Yihua Ren*, Ke Ran, Stephan Kruse, Joachim Mayor, Heinz Pitsch. Flame synthesis of   carbon metal-oxide nanocomposites in a counterflow burner. Proceedings   of the Combustion Institute, 2021, 38(1): 1269-1277.

6.      Yihua Ren, Wei Cui, Heinz Pitsch, Shuiqing Li*. Experimental and numerical studies   on electric field distribution of a premixed stagnation flame under DC power   supply. Combustion and Flame, 2020, 215: 103-112.

7.      Yihua Ren, Wei Cui, Shuiqing Li*. Electro-hydrodynamic instability of premixed   flames under manipulations of DC electric fields. Physical Review E,   2018, 97(1):013103.

8.      Yihua Ren,   Shuiqing Li*, Wei Cui, Yiyang Zhang, Lin Ma. Low-frequency AC electric field induced thermoacoustic oscillation of a   premixed stagnation flame. Combustion and Flame, 2017, 176:   479-488.

9.      Yihua Ren, Yiyang Zhang, Shuiqing Li*, Chung K. Law. Doping mechanism of   Vanadia/Titania nanoparticles in flame synthesis by a novel optical   spectroscopy technique. Proceedings of the Combustion Institute,   2015, 35(2).

10.   Shuiqing Li*, Yihua Ren,   Pratim Biswas, Stephen D. Tse. Flame aerosol synthesis of nanostructured   materials and functional devices: Processing, modeling, and diagnostics. Progress   in Energy and Combustion Science, 2016, 55:1-59.