Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Education   

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, PhD 1991  
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, MSME 1989 
Tsinghua University (P. R. China), BSc 1984

Academic and Research Appointments   

Professor Mechanical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, July 2007-present)  
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology,  (July 2003- July 2007)
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, (August 1998 - July 2003)

Current Research Interests    

Multiphase Flows: evaporative jets in multiphase flows; drag forces and collisions of interacting particles; pneumatic conveying; turbulence modulation.    Particulate Pollution Control: fibrous filtration; wet scrubbing; rotating fluidized bed granular filtration. 
Membrane Distillation: thermal membrane distillation, ultrasonic enhancement.

Book & Book Chapters

Liang-Shih Fan and Chao Zhu, Principles of Gas-Solid Flows, 557 pages. Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-58148-6, 1998.  

Chao Zhu, Chapter 2: Isokinetic Sampling and Cascade Impactor, Instrumentation for Fluid-Particle Flow, ed. by Shao Lee Soo, Noyes Publications, Park Ridge, NJ, USA, 1999, pp.9-46. 

Chao Zhu and Liang-Shih Fan, Chapter 18: Gas-Solid Flows, The Handbook of Fluid Dynamics, ed. by Richard W. Johnson, CRC Press, Boca Raton, LA, USA, 1998, pp.18-1: 18-48.  

S. L. Soo and C. Zhu, Chapter 9: Unsteady Motion of Dense Suspensions and Rheological Behavior, Particulate Two-Phase Flow, ed. By M. C. Roco, Butterworth-Heinemann, Boston, MA, USA, 1993, pp.265-297. Selected Publications  

Chao Zhu, Qun Yu, Robert Pfeffer, Rajesh N. Dave, “Gas Fluidization Characteristics of Nanoparticle Agglomerates”, AIChE J., 51(2), 426-439, 2005.  

S. S. Dukhin, C. Zhu, R. Dave, Q. Yu, “Hydrodynamic Fragmentation of Nanoparticle Aggregates at Orthokinetic Coagulation”, Advances in Colloids and Interface Science, 2004, in press. 

Chao Zhu, Guangliang Liu, Qun Yu, Robert Pfeffer, Rajesh N. Dave, Caroline H.Nam, “Sound Assisted Fluidization of Nanoparticle Agglomerates” Powder Technology, 141, 119-123, 2004. 

Xiaohua Wang, Chao Zhu, Rajesh Ahluwalia, “Numerical Simulation of Evaporating Spray Jets in Concurrent Gas-Solids Pipe Flows”, Powder Technology, 140, 56-67, 2004. 

C. Zhu, K. Lam, H.-H. Chu, X.-D. Tang and G. Liu, “Drag Forces of Interacting Spheres in Power-Law Fluids”, Mechanics Research Communications, 30, 651-662, 2003.  

S. S. Dukhin, C. Zhu, R. Dave, R. Pfeffer, J. J. Luo, F. Chávez and Y. Shen, “Dynamic Interfacial Tension near Critical Point of a Solvent-Antisolvent Mixture and Laminar Jet Stabilization”, Colloids and Surfaces, 229, 181-199, 2003. 

X. Wang and C. Zhu, “Concentric Evaporating Spray Jets in Dilute Gas-Solid Pipe Flows”, Powder Technology, 129, 59-71, 2003. 

C. Zhu, C. H. Lin, G. H. Qian and R. Pfeffer, “Modeling of Pressure Drop and Flow Field in a Rotating Fluidized Bed”, Chemical Engineering Communications, 190(6), 1-23, 2003.  

C. Zhu, G. L. Liu, X. Wang and L.-S. Fan, “A Parametric Model for Evaporating Liquid Jets in Dilute Gas-Solid Flows”, Int’l. J. Multiphase Flows, 28, 1479-1495, 2002.  

S. Chen, C. S. Cheung, C. K. Chan and C. Zhu, “Numerical Simulation of Aerosol Collection in Filters with Staggered Parallel Rectangular Fibers”, Computational Mechanics, 28, 152-161, 2002.  

L.-S. Fan, R. Lau, C. Zhu, K. Vuong, W. Warsito, X. Wang and G. Liu, “Evaporative Liquid Jets in Gas-Liquid-Solid Flow System”, Chem. Eng. Science, 56, 5871-5891, 2001.  

Chao Zhu, Xiaohua Wang, Guangliang Liu, Liang-Shih Fan, A Similarity Model of Evaporating Liquid Spray Jets in Concurrent Gas-Solid Flows, Powder Technology, 119, 292-297, 2001.  

Chao Zhu, Chao-Hsin Lin, Chun Shun Cheung, Inertial Impaction dominated Fibrous Filtration with Rectangular or Cylindrical Fibers, Powder Technology, 112, 149-162, 2000. 

Chao Zhu, Guangliang Liu, Modeling of Ultrasonic Enhancement on Membrane Distillation, J. Membrane Science, 176, 31-41, 2000.   

Chao Zhu, Xiaohua Wang, Liang-Shih Fan, Effect of Solids Concentration on Evaporative Liquid Jets in Gas-Solid Flows, Powder Technology, 111, 79-82, 2000.   

C. Zhu, G. L. Liu, C. S. Cheung, C. W. Leung, Z. C. Zhu, Ultrasonic Stimulation on Enhancement of Air Gap Membrane Distillation, J. Membrane Science, 161, 85-93, 1999.  

Jiangping Zhang, Liang-Shih Fan, Chao Zhu, Robert Pfeffer, Dewei Qi, Dynamic Behavior of Collision of Elastic Spheres in Viscous Fluids, Powder Technology, 106, 98-109, 1999.

Liu Guangliang, Huang Dongtao, Zhu Zhichi, Zhu Chao, Mechanism of Mass Transfer on Air Gap Membrane Distillation, J. Tsinghua University (Sci & Tech), 39, 50-53, 1999 (in Chinese with English Abstract).