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Dr. Huiyuan Fan
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972-4-8292435 |
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972-4-8231848 |
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fanhy@tx.technion.ac.il |
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Biographic Details
Research Experience
Publications
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| Nationality: |
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P. R. China |
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Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Technion-I.I.T., Haifa 32000, Israel |
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972-4-8292435 |
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972-4-8231848 |
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fanhy@tx.technion.ac.il |
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| Xi'an Jiaotong University, China |
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in Engineering received April, 2000
Major: Fluid Computation;
Minors: CFD & Artificial Intelligent Computation.
Thesis title: Study of Evolutionary-Computation-Based Methods and Applications to Design Stationary Circular Cascades in Centrifugal Compressors. |
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in Mechanical Engineering received July, 1983 |
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| Lady Davis Postdoctoral Research Fellow |
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FLOXCOM: Low-NOx Flameless Oxidation (FLOX) combustor for high efficiency gas turbines:- Modeling and optimization of recirculations for flameless oxidation in combustors
- Multiobjective optimization problems in design of FLOX combustors.
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| Visiting Researcher |
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Soft Computational methods and their engineering applications:- Improvement of differential evolution and its application to CFD numerical methods
- Combination of neural networks and evolutionary algorithms in engineering applications
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| Research Assistant |
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- Prediction of pollutant dispersion in congested downtown areas in Hong Kong using artificial neural networks and CFD techniques
- Soft computational methods in atmospheric and environmental engineering applications
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| Senior Research Engineer |
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- Numerical simulations of flowfield in 3-D centrifugal impellers and diffuser cascades,
- Neural-network-based approaches in turbomachinery optimal designs,
- Genetic-algorithm-based approaches in turbomachinery optimal designs,
- Numerical analysis of flowfields using genetic algorithms,
- Open design database and automatic design system of turbomachines
- Experimental technology of centrifugal compressors with high pressure-ratios and
- Performance improvement of more than twenty existing centrifugal compressors used in process plants in China.
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| Mechanical Engineer |
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- Insensitive experiments of seven turbine rotors,
- Insensitive experiments of seven turbine rotors,
- Vibration problems in four piston compressor systems with dampers and pipes,
- Fluctuation phenomenon of the governor system in two turbine and compressor groups,
- Life-span prolonging of rod packings for four piston compressors,
- Study of floating ring shaft seals for centrifugal compressors,
- Development of countermeasures for mechanical seal faults
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| Research Assistant |
- Aerodynamic experiment study of centrifugal impellers with three-dimensional blades.
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| 1990 |
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" The Star in Technology" of Yangzi Petrochemical Corporation of SINOPEC, China |
| 1996 |
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Prizes at municipal and provincial grade for the promotion of Science and Technology, China. |
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Scholarship from TCL Corporation, China |
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Excellent Graduate Student of Xi'an Jiaotong University |
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Scholarship and award (silver) from Tang Zhaoqian |
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Excellent Ph.D. Thesis of Xi'an Jiaotong University |
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- Computational Mathematics
- Recent Development of Numerical Approaches to Partial Differential Equations
- A Modern Method for Global Optimization, Stability of a Dynamic System and Stochastic Approximation,
- Computational Fluid Dynamics of Turbomachines
- Dynamics of Turbomachinery Rotors and Computer Aided Geometric Design
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- Professor Yeshayahou Levy, Head, Turbo and Jet Engine Laboratory, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel. Tel: 972-4-8293807. Email: levyy@aerodyne.technion.ac.il
- Professor Jouni Lampinen, Head, Department of Information Technology, Lappeenranta University of Technology, P.O.Box 20, 53851 Lappeenranta, Finland. Tel: 358-5-6212813. Email: jlampinen@lut.fi
- Professor Weizhen Jane Lu, Building & Construction Department, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong. 852-27844316. Email: bcwzlu@cityu.edu.hk
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Has published more than forty journal papers, and some are listed below
- H.-Y. Fan, An inverse design method of diffuser blades by genetic algorithms, Journal of Power and Energy, Proc. Instn Mech. Engrs, Vol. 212, Part A,1998: 261~268
- H.-Y. Fan, A neural network approach for centrifugal impeller inverse design, Journal of Power and Energy, Proc. Instn. Mech. Engrs. Vol. 214, Part A, 2000: 183~186
- H.-Y. Fan, G. Xi and S. J. Wang, Multi-point optimal design for cascade of centrifugal compressor, Journal of Power and Energy, Proc. Instn. Mech. Engrs. Vol. 214, Part A, 2000: 187~190
- H.-Y. Fan, G. Xi and S. J. Wang, Dual fitness genetic algorithms and its application in aerodynamic design, Inverse Problems in Engineering. Vol. 8, No 4, 2000: 325~344
- H.-Y. Fan, G. Xi and S. J. Wang, Study on turbomachinery performance prediction with neural networks, Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering, Vol. 13, No 1, 2000: 52~57
- H.-Y. Fan, W.-Z. Lu and Z.-B. Xu, An empirical comparison of three novel genetic algorithms, Engineering Computation, Vol. 17, No 8, 2000: 981~1001
- H.-Y. Fan, R. Yam, C. Dang, A preliminary study on the genetic algorithms in flowfield numerical analysis, Proc. Instn. Mech. Engrs. Vol. 215, Part A, 2001: 203~212
- H.-Y. Fan and Y. Shi, Study on Vmax of particle swarm optimization, the Particle Swarm Optimization Workshop, April 6-7, 2001, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
- H.-Y. Fan, R. Yam and C. Dang, A new PCA self-organizing algorithm with almost global convergence, submitted to IEEE Transaction on Neural Networks
- H.-Y. Fan, W.-Z. Lu, G. Xi and S.-J. Wang A new neural-network-based calibration method for aerodynamic pressure probes, submitted to ASME Transaction on Fluid Engineering
- W.-Z. Lu, H.-Y. Fan, S.-M. Lo and J. C. K. Wong, A particle-swarm-optimization-based neural network approach and its application to environmental modeling, in the 4th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality, Ventilation & Energy Conservation in Buildings, Oct. 2001, Changsha, China
- W.-Z. Lu, H.-Y. Fan, S.-M. Lo and J. C. K. Wong, Analysis of pollutant levels in central Hong Kong applying a neural network method with Particle Swarm optimization, accepted to be published in Journal of Environmental Monitoring & Assessment
- W.-Z. Lu, H.-Y. Fan, S.-M. Lo and J. C. K. Wong, Pollution modeling for Hong Kong downtown area using principal component analysis and artificial neural networks, in the 6th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Civil and Structural Engineering, 19-21 Sep. 2001, Eisenstadt, Vienna, Austria.
- W.-Z. Lu, H.-Y. Fan, S.-M. Lo and J. C. K. Wong, A PCA analysis and neural network modeling of suspended particle level in Causeway Bay area in Hong Kong, accepted to be published in International Journal on Architectural Science.
- H.-Y. Fan and J. Lampinen, A directed mutation operation for the differential evolution algorithm, International Journal of Industrial Engineering: Special Issue on Computational Intelligence in Industrial Engineering (in press)
- H.-Y. Fan and J. Lampinen, A trigonometric mutation approach to differential evolution, in EUROGEN 2001, "Evolutionary Methods for design, optimization and control with applications to industrial problems", September 19-21, 2001-Athens, Greece
- H.-Y. Fan and J. Lampinen, A trigonometric mutation operation to differential evolution, submitted to International Journal of Global Optimization
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