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Dr. Lixin Cheng joined the University of Portsmouth as Senior Lecturer in Petroleum Engineering in April 2011. His teaching interests include Petroleum Refinery Operations, Drilling Engineering and Petroleum Production Engineering.

Dr. Cheng obtained his Ph.D. in Thermal Energy Engineering at the State Key Laboratory of Multiphase Flow in Power Engineering of Xi'an Jiaotong University, China in 1998. He was Lecturer in Chemical Engineering at the University of Aberdeen from 02 2009 to 03 2011. He was ERCOFTAC (European Research Community on Fluids, Turbulence and Combustion) visitor of the Laboratory of Heat and Mass Transfer (LTCM) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland in April 2010. He was Scientific Collaborator of the LTCM at EPFL from 2006 to 2009. In 2004, he was awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship and thus worked in the Institute of Process Engineering at the Leibniz University of Hanover, Germany from 2004 to 2006. He was Senior Research Fellow at the London South Bank University from 2001 to 2003, and Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands from 2000 to 2001.

Dr. Cheng's research interests include experimental research and modeling on two-phase flow and heat transfer, enhanced heat transfer, transport phenomena in macro- and micro-channels and systems, compact and micro heat exchangers, energy and environmental issues in chemical processes, electronic chip cooling, nanofluid two-phase flow and heat transfer, sub- and super-critical CO2 heat transfer in macro- and micro-channels, thermal systems, oil-gas-water multiphase flow technologies (fundamental research and applied research) and multiphase flow in porous media.

He has published more than 80 papers in journals and conferences, 2 book chapters and edited several books/ebooks. He is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Microscale and Nanoscale Thermal and Fluid Transport Phenomena (IJMNTFTP) and the Editor-in-Chief of e-book series Advances in Multiphase Flow and Heat Transfer.

Selected Journal Papers

1. Lixin Cheng and Hanfeng Zou (2010): Evaluation of Flow Boiling Heat Transfer Correlations with Experimental Data of R134a, R22, R410A and R245fa in Microscale Channels, Int. Journal Microscale Nanoscale Thermal & Fluid Transport Phenomena, Vol.1, Issue 4 pp. 363-380.
2. Lixin Cheng (2010): Microscale and Nanoscale Thermal and Fluid Transport Phenomena: Rapidly Developing Research Fields, Int. Journal Microscale Nanoscale Thermal & Fluid Transport Phenomena, Vol.1, Issue 1, pp. 3-6.
3. Lixin Cheng and John R. Thome (2009): Cooling of Microprocessors Using Flow Boiling of CO2 in a Micro-Evaporator: Preliminary Analysis and Performance Comparison. Appl. Therm. Eng., Vol. 29, pp. 2426-2432.
4. Jesús Moreno Quibén, Lixin Cheng, Ricardo J. da Silva Lima and John R. Thome (2009): Flow Boiling in Horizontal Flattened Tubes: Part I – Two-Phase Frictional Pressure Drop Results and Model, Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer, Vol. 52, pp. 3634-3644.
5. Jesús Moreno Quibén, Lixin Cheng, Ricardo J. da Silva Lima and John R. Thome (2009): Flow Boiling in Horizontal Flattened Tubes: Part II – Flow Boiling Heat Transfer Results and Model, Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer, Vol. 52, pp. 3645-3653.
6. Enio P. Bandarra Filho, Lixin Cheng and John R. Thome, (2009): Flow Boiling Characteristics and Flow Pattern Visualization of Refrigerant/Lubricant Oil Mixtures. Int. J. Refrig., Vol. 32, pp. 185-2002.
7. Lixin Cheng, Gherhardt Ribatski and John R. Thome (2008): Gas-Liquid Two-Phase Flow Patterns and Flow Pattern Maps: Fundamentals and Applications. ASME Appl. Mech. Rev., Vol. 61, 050802,1-28.
8. Lixin Cheng, Gherhardt Ribatski and John R. Thome, (2008): Analysis of Supercritical CO2 Cooling in Macro- and Micro Channels, Int. J. Refrig., Vol. 31, pp. 1301-1316.
9. Lixin Cheng, Enio P. Bandarra Filho and John R. Thome, (2008): Nanofluid Two-Phase Flow and Thermal Physics: A New Research Frontier of Nanotechnology and Its Challenges. J. Nanosci. Nanotech., Vol. 8, 3315-3332.
10. John R. Thome, Lixin Cheng, Gherhardt Ribatski and Lui F. Vales (2008): Flow Boiling of Ammonia and Hydrocarbons: A State-of-the-Art Review, Int. J. Refrig., Vol. 31, 603-620.
11. Lixin Cheng, Gherhardt Ribatski, Jesus Moreno Quibén and John R. Thome (2008): New Prediction Methods for CO2 Evaporation inside Tubes: Part I – A Two-phase Flow Pattern Map and a Flow Pattern Based Phenomenological Model for Two-Phase Flow Frictional Pressure drops, Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer, Vol. 51, 111-124.
12. Lixin Cheng, Gherhardt Ribatski and John R. Thome (2008): New Prediction Methods for CO2 Evaporation inside Tubes: Part II – An Updated General Flow Boiling Heat Transfer Model Based on Flow Patterns, Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer, Vol. 51, 125-135.
13. Lixin Cheng, Dieter Mewes and Andrea Luke (2007): Boiling Phenomena with Surfactants and Polymeric Additives: A State-of-the-Art Review, Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer, Vol. 50, 2744-2771.
14. Lixin Cheng and Tingkuan Chen (2007): Study of Vapor Liquid Two-phase Frictional Pressure Drop in a Vertical Heated Spirally Internally Ribbed Tube, Chem. Eng. Sci., Vol. 62, 783-792.
15. Lixin Cheng, Gherhardt Ribatski, Leszek Wojtan and John R. Thome (2006): New Flow Boiling Heat Transfer Model and Flow Pattern Map for Carbon Dioxide Evaporating inside Horizontal Tubes, Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer, Vol. 49, 4082-4094.
16. Lixin Cheng and Dieter Mewes, (2006): Review of Two-phase Flow and Flow Boiling of Mixtures in Small and Mini Channels, Int. J. Multiphase Flow, Vol. 32, 183-207.

Chapters in Books

1. Lixin Cheng and John R. Thome, Two-Phase Flow and Heat Transfer of Sub- and Supercritical CO2 in Macro- and Micro-channels, in Multiphase Flow Research, Editors: S. Martin and J.R. Williams, Nova Science Publishers Inc., New York, 2009, pp. 543-620.
2. Lixin Cheng, Single-Phase Incompressible Fluid Flow in Mini- and Micro-channels, in Fluid Mechanics and Pipe Flow: Turbulences, Simulation and Dynamics, Editors: Donald Matos and Cristian Valerio, Nova Science Publishers Inc., New York, 2009, pp. 343-364.

Books

1. Lixin Cheng (Ed.), Frontier Research in Microscale and Nanoscale Thermal and Fluid Sciences, ISBN: 978-1-61324-665-8, Nova Science Publishers Inc., New York, 2011.
2. Lixin Cheng and Dieter Mewes (Ed.), Advances in Multiphase Flow and Heat Transfer, Vol. 1, 2009, eISBN: 978-1-60805-080-2, Bentham Science Publishers, website: http://www.bentham.org/ebooks/9781608050802/index.htm.
3. Lixin Cheng and Dieter Mewes (Ed.), Advances in Multiphase Flow and Heat Transfer, Vol. 2, 2009, eISBN: 978-1-60805-094-9, Bentham Science Publishers, website: http://www.bentham.org/ebooks/9781608050949/index.htm.