Zhe Li

Fonction

  • Maître/Maîtresse de conférences

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)
blood-valve interaction with LBM-FEM coupling
Example 1: Transient interaction between blood flows and aortic valve during one cardiac cycle [Li et al. JCP 2022].
 
energy harvesting fsi_beam
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
gkfs
Example 3: Supersonic rarefied flows around a cylinder with an improved gas kinetic flux solver (GKFS) [Li JCP 2025].

gkfs_couette
Example 4: Velocity distribution in rarefied cylindrical Couette flow with GKFS [Li et al. POF 2024].
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Example 5: Hermite polynomial regularization enhancing numerical stability of IBM-LBM [Li et al. CAF 2019].

 
Selected publications in international peer-reviewed journals:
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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
Publié le 29 mars 2017 Mis à jour le 29 avril 2026