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Columbia, Missouri Area United States

James C. Dowell Professor and Chairman, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Missouri

Education

Dr. Yuwen Zhang is the department chairman of and a James C. Dowell Professor in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at the University of Missouri. Dr. Zhang’s research interests are are in the areas of thermal-fluids science and engineering, including ultrafast and high-energy laser materials interaction, multiscale transport phenomena in multiphase systems, inverse problems and optimization under uncertainty, micro- and nanoscale heat transfer, and sustainable and renewable energy. Dr. Zhang has been the principal investigator or a co-principal investigator on nearly $4M of funding from Office of Naval Research, Air Force Research Laboratory, National Science Foundation,.