Laboratoire Laboratoire de recherche en Hydrodynamique, Énergétique et Environnement Atmosphérique (LHEEA) Équipe de recherche MELUHSINE
Recherche Research topic: Numerical methods for fluid-structure interaction (FSI) FSI coupling of lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) and finite element method (FEM) via immersed boundary method (IBM) Example 1: Transient interaction between blood flows and aortic valve during one cardiac cycle [Li et al. JCP 2022]. Example 2: Fluid-structure-piezoelectric interaction for energy harvesting involving large structural displacements [Li et al. CMAME 2023]. Gas kinetic schemes for multi-regime flows Example 3: Supersonic rarefied flows around a cylinder with an improved gas kinetic flux solver (GKFS) [Li JCP 2025]. Example 4: Velocity distribution in rarefied cylindrical Couette flow with GKFS [Li et al. POF 2024]. Example 5: Hermite polynomial regularization enhancing numerical stability of IBM-LBM [Li et al. CAF 2019]. Selected publications in international peer-reviewed journals: Z. Li*. Improved gas kinetic flux solver with locally rescaled Gauss-Hermite quadrature for supersonic continuum and rarefied flows. Journal of Computational Physics, vol. 524, pp. 113700, 2025. Z. Li, G. Wang, X. Zou, X. Wang, K. Liu*. Grad's 13 moments-based gas kinetic flux solver with triangle unstructured meshes for simulating continuum and rarefied fluid flows. Physics of Fluids, vol. 36, pp. 027147, 2024. Z. Li, X. Huang*, L. Fang. Numerical modeling of fluid–structure–piezoelectric interaction for energy harvesting. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, vol. 414, pp. 116164, 2023. Z. Li*, L. Vittoz, G. Oger, D. Le Touzé. A simplified and efficient weakly-compressible FV-WENO scheme for immiscible two-phase flows. Computers & Fluids, vol. 244, pp. 105555, 2022. Z. Li*, G. Oger, D. Le Touzé. A partitioned framework for coupling LBM and FEM through an implicit IBM allowing non-conforming time-steps: application to fluid-structure interaction in biomechanics. Journal of Computational Physics, vol. 449, pp. 110786, 2022. Z. Li*, G. Oger, D. Le Touzé. A finite volume WENO scheme for immiscible inviscid two-phase flows. Journal of Computational Physics, vol. 418, pp. 109601, 2020. Z. Li*, W. Cao, D. Le Touzé. On the coupling of a direct-forcing immersed boundary method and the regularized lattice Boltzmann method for fluid-structure interaction. Computers & Fluids, vol. 190, pp. 470-484, 2019. Z. Li*, J. Favier. A non-staggered coupling of finite element and lattice Boltzmann methods via an immersed boundary scheme for fluid-structure interaction. Computers & Fluids, vol. 143, pp. 90-102, 2017. Z. Li*, J. Favier, U. D'Ortona, S. Poncet. An immersed boundary-lattice Boltzmann method for single- and multi-component fluid flows. Journal of Computational Physics, vol. 304, pp. 424-440, 2016. Z. Li, J. Leduc, J. Nunez-Ramirez, A. Combescure*, J. Marongiu. A non-intrusive partitioned approach to couple smoothed particle hydrodynamics and finite element methods for transient fluid-structure interaction problems with large interface motion. Computational Mechanics, vol. 55, pp. 697-718, 2015. Z. Li, J. Leduc, A. Combescure*, F. Leboeuf. Coupling of SPH-ALE method and finite element method for transient fluid–structure interaction. Computers & Fluids, vol. 103, pp. 6-17, 2014. Z. Li, A. Combescure*, F. Leboeuf. Coupling of finite volume and finite element subdomains using different time integrators. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, vol. 72, pp. 1286-1306, 2013.
Parcours Parcours 2015-present: Maître de Conférences at Ecole Centrale de Nantes (LHEEA) 2014-2015: Postdoc researcher at Ecole Centrale de Marseille (M2P2) 2010-2013: PhD in Mechanics at Ecole Centrale de Lyon (LMFA) 2008-2010: Ingénieur & Master at Ecole Centrale de Lyon (Programme SNECMA) 2004-2008: Bachelor at Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (BUAA, now "Beihang") Publications Publications