Engineer Mechanical

Dr. Qing Tian (U.S. Permanent Resident)

Current Address:

*** ********** **

Blacksburg, VA 24060

Contact Information:

Cell: 540-***-****

Email: ********@*****.***

OBJECTIVE

Looking for a full time research and development position where I can

contribute my knowledge in aerodynamics and heat transfer.

EDUCATION

. Doctor of Philosophy, Aerospace Engineering, Virginia Tech, USA, 12/2003

~ 11/2006, GPA: 4.0/4.0

. Master of Science, Aerospace Engineering, Virginia Tech, USA, 08/2001 ~

12/2003

. Bachelor of Engineering, Engineering Mechanics, Tianjin University,

China, 09/1996~07/2000

WORK EXPERIENCE

. Mechanical Engineer, Applied University Research Inc., USA, 01/2007~

. Research Assistant, Aerospace Engineering Department, Virginia Tech,

12/2003 ~ 11/2006

. Research Assistant, Aerospace Engineering Department, Virginia Tech,

08/2001 ~ 12/2003

. Assistant Engineer, Tianjin Chemical Engineering Designing Institute,

China, 08/2000 ~ 08/2001

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

. 10-year experience in wind tunnel tests, including test design, setup,

and data analysis; proficient in advanced testing instruments and data

acquisition systems, such as LabVIEW;

. Proficient in laser optical-mechanical system design and its' application

in the aerodynamics; design and development of a three-component laser

Doppler velocimetry (LDV) for particle velocity and turbulence

measurements inside a compressor cascade wind tunnel; proficient in

pressure probe (3 hole, 5 hole, 7 hole) design, calibration, and its'

application in the compressor rotor research;

. 5-year experience in compressor rotor research and design verification;

proficient in advanced fluid measurement technology, such as, laser

Doppler velocimetry (LDV), particle image velocimetry (PIV)), pressure

field measurement, and flow visualization technology inside compressor;

. Expertise in using a wide variety of both commercial and opensource CFD

and FEA softwares, such as ANSYS, CFX, Fluent and OpenFoam for

aerodynamic design and design optimization; Experienced in turbulent

flows, incompressible flows, compressible flows, free surface flows, and

heat transfer simulation;

. Professional in using 3D mechanical CAD software: Solidworks and Autodesk

Inventor; Familiar with grid meshing tools, such as Gridgen, Gambit,

Turbogrid and ICEM CFD; Experienced in Structured, unstructured, and

hybrid mesh generation around complex geometry; Familiar with 3D

visualization tools, such as Tecplot, Matlab, ParaView and Visit, etc;

. Experienced in in-house Linux parallel computing which can support

simulations of 10+ million; Advanced understanding and implementation in

full range of RANS turbulence models, full range of LES models and DES

models;

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS

. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Senior Member

. AIAA Gas turbine committee

. Sigma Xi (International honor society of science and engineering), Member

. Reviewer for Journal of AIAA, Journal of Fluid Engineering, Journal of

Renewable and Sustainable Energy, and International Journal of Heat and

Fluid Flow

COMPUTER SKILLS

. Operating Systems: Windows and Linux

. Applications:

CFD: OpenFoam, Fluent, and ANSYS CFX.

CAD: Solidworks, proE, AutoCAD and Mechanical Desktop

Meshing tool: Gambit, Gridgen, Turbogrid and ICEM CFD

Visualization: Matlab, Tecplot, ParaFoam and Visit

Others: LabVIEW, Microsoft Office, etc.

. Programming: C/C++, Visual Basic, Fortran, Matlab and Mathematica,

PATENTS

1. "Low Drag Tetrahedral Vortex Generators", Simpson R, Lowe K and, Tian

Q, Patent Pending.

PUBLICATIONS

1. Tian Q, Lowe K and Simpson R, 2007, "A Three-Velocity-Component Laser-

Doppler Velocimeter for Measurements inside the Linear Compressor

Cascade", 487-499, Volume 43, Number 4, Experiments in Fluids.

2. Tian Q, Simpson R and Tang G, 2004, "Flow visualization on the linear

compressor cascade endwall using oil flows and laser Doppler

anemometry", 1910-1916, Volume 15, Number 9, Measurement Science

Technology.

3. Tian Q, and Simpson R, 2007, "Experimental Study of Tip Leakage Flow in

the Linear Compressor Cascade: Part I - Stationary Wall", AIAA-2007-269,

45th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, Reno.

4. Tian Q, and Simpson R, 2007, "Experimental Study of Tip Leakage Flow in

the Linear Compressor Cascade: Part II - Effect of Moving Wall", AIAA-

2007-270, 45th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, Reno.

5. Tang G, Simpson R and Tian Q, 2006, "Experimental study of tip-gap

turbulent flow", GT2006-90359, Proceedings of GT2006, ASME Turbo Expo:

Power for Land, Sea and Air Barcelona, Spain.

6. Tang G, Simpson R and Tian Q, 2006, "Endwall Pressure Measurement and

Skin Friction Correction of a Compressor Cascade", AIAA-2006-4457, 42nd

AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit, Sacramento,

California.

7. Tang G, Simpson R and Tian Q, 2005, "Gap Size Effect on Tip-Gap

Turbulent Flow Structure",, AIAA 2005-4024, 41st AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE

Joint Propulsion Conference & Exhibit Tucson, Arizona.

8. Tang G, Simpson R and Tian Q, 2005, "Effect of Relative Motion on Tip-

Gap Turbulent Flow Structure", AIAA 2005-5146, 35th AIAA Fluid Dynamics

Conference and Exhibit Toronto, Ontario Canada.

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