Name: Zhaoqing Ke Title: Associate Professor

Email: kzqing@ncu.edu.cn

Recent Courses Taught: Fluid Mechanics

Personal Website: Web of Science ResearchGate

Research Areas

• Thermo and Heat Transfer

• Fluid-Structure Interaction

• Multiphase Flow

• Computational Fluid Dynamics

• Energy Conversion and Utilization

Education

• Ph.D., Power Engineering and Engineering Thermophysics, University of Science and Technology of China, 2016

• BASc, Thermal Energy and Power Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, 2011

Work Experience

• Associate Professor, School of Advanced Manufacturing, Nanchang University, Nov. 2021 - to date

• Senior Engineer, Ningde Amperex Technology Ltd., Aug. 2019 - Nov. 2021

• Postdoctoral Associate, University of Missouri-Columbia, Jun. 2016 - Aug. 2019

Honors

• Second Prize of Jiangxi Province Teaching Achievement Award, 2023

• First Prize of Teaching Achievement Award of Nanchang University, 2023

Selected Articles in Journals

[1] Zhaoqing Ke, Guanlin Zhang, Xingyang Liu, Chaohua Zhang, Ying Zhang, Optimization of microgroove cross sections to enhance pool boiling performance via wire electrical discharge machining, Applied Thermal Engineering, 282 (2026) 128836.

[2] Deji Sun, Jinyang Zhao, Huiwu Liu, Ying Zhang, Zhaoqing Ke*, An Experimental Study of Bubble Growth and Detachment Characteristics at an Orifice for an Electronic Atomizer, Processes 13(11) (2025) 3516.

[3] Shiqi He, Yu Mao, Xiaoliang Deng, Jiansheng Liu, Zhaoqing Ke*, Yuan Tian*, Ying Zhang*, Bubble detachment and heat transfer of pool boiling on different structure surfaces with continuous wettings, Physics of Fluids, 37(5) (2025) 053311.

[4] Ying Zhang, Wei Yang, Shuli Zou, Zhiqiang Wang, Zhaoqing Ke*, Jianfeng Chen*, Enhanced boiling performance of microgrooves with ultrathin metal surfaces, Applied Thermal Engineering, 264 (2025) 125498.

[5] Ying Zhang, Zhiqiang Wang, Shuli Zou, Yao Liu, Shuting Zhao, Zhaoqing Ke*, A new bottom and radial coupled heat dissipation model for battery thermal management system, Applied Thermal Engineering, 258 (2025) 124794.

[6] Ying Zhang, Ruifeng Gao, Qinwen Fu, Jiansheng Liu, Zhaoqing Ke*, Kian Jon Chua*, Self-driven transport and heat transfer characteristics of a droplet on a wettability-gradient surface by front-tracking method, Physics of Fluids, 36 (2024) 112004.

[7] Zhaoqing Ke, Zhenguo Mo, Chaohua Zhang, Prasert Prapamonthon, Ying Zhang, Nucleate boiling enhancement on a pillar structure surface with selected surface vibration modes, International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, 156 (2024) 107576.

[8] Ying Zhang, Xiaoguang Yang, Shuli Zou, Xuefeng Xu, Yuwei Tu, Yuan Tian, Zhaoqing Ke*, Enhancing the phase change material based shell-tube thermal energy storage units with unique hybrid fins, International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, 157 (2024) 107763.

[9] Ying Zhang, Shuting Zhao, Yao Liu, Deji Sun, Zhaoqing Ke*, Yuan Tian*, Directional self-migration of droplets on an inclined surface driven by wettability gradient, Physics of Fluids, 36 (2024) 093336.

[10] Ying Zhang, Shuting Zhao, Yao Liu, Yuwei Tu , Zhaoqing Ke*,Yuan Tian*, Min Lu*, Dynamic characteristics of droplets impacting an inclined wall based on a front-tracking method, Physics of Fluids, 36 (2024) 053331.

[11] Yanghua Chen, Renjun Wang, Zhaoqing Ke*, Comparative study of film cooling performance on curved walls with various hole configurations and blowing ratios, Applied Thermal Engineering, 238 (2024) 122195.

[12] Zhiqiang Wang, Ying Xu, Ying Zhang*, Zhaoqing Ke*, Yuan Tian*, Shuting Zhao, An accelerated lattice Boltzmann method for natural convection coupled with convolutional neural network, Physics of Fluids, 36 (2024) 023602.

[13] Zhaoqing Ke, Ying Zhang, Heat transfer enhancement in a rectangular channel with flow-induced pitching, heaving or surging of an airfoil, International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, 142 (2023), 106657.

[14] Ying Zhang, Yu Mao, Yuan Tian, Yichen Huang, Jiansheng Liu, Zhaoqing Ke*, Effects of continuous wettability on the pool-boiling bubble dynamics and heat transfer characteristics of a triangular structure-roughened surface, Physics of Fluids, 35 (2023), 107110.

[15] Zhaoxuan Tang, Tingfang Yu, Zhaoqing Ke*, Bozhen Lai, Yan Gao, Ying Zhang*, Experimental investigation on boiling regime transformation when the binary-droplet impact on the superheated surface, Applied Thermal Engineering, 233(2023), 121194.

[16] Ying Zhang, Ruifeng Gao, Yuwei Tu, Yichen Huang, Zhaoqing Ke*, Numerical simulation study of self-driven microdroplet on locally restrictive discontinuous wetting gradient surface using front tracking method, Canadian Journal of Physics, 101 (2023) 619-629.

[17] Ying Zhang, Peilin Lu, Xuhui Huang, Yichen Huang, and Zhaoqing Ke*, Convective heat transfer in I-shape heat sink under the action of Lorentz force via LBM, Numerical Heat Transfer, Part A: Applications, 83 (2023), 379-399.

[18] Peisheng Li, Guozi Zhu, Ying Zhang, Yan Gao, Jian Hong, Zhaoqing Ke*, Heat transfer enhancement of microchannel with jets and ribs, Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, 37 (2023) 750-760.

[19] Peisheng Li, Qi Zeng, Ming Ma, Ying Zhang, Zhaoqing Ke*, Wei Wu, Numerical study of the performance of heat pipe-based thermal management system for power lithium battery, Heat Transfer Research, 54 (2023) 63-77.

[20] Ying Zhang, Qinwen Fu, Yao Liu, Bozhen Lai, Zhaoqing Ke*, Wei Wu*, Investigations of lithium-ion battery thermal management system with hybrid PCM/liquid cooling plate, Processes, 11 (2023) 57.

[21] Zhaoqing Ke, Chung-Lung Chen, Kuojiang Li, Sheng Wang, Enhancement of heat transfer by out of phase self-vibration through fluid structure interaction, Journal of Enhanced Heat Transfer, 27 (2020), 643-663.

[22] Zhaoqing Ke, Chung-Lung Chen, Kuojiang Li, Sheng Wang, Chien-Hua Chen, Vortex dynamics and heat transfer of longitudinal vortex generators in a rectangular channel, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 132 (2019), 871-885.

[23] Zhaoqing Ke, Junxiang Shi, Bo Zhang, Chung-Lung Chen, Numerical investigation of condensation on microstructured surface with wettability patterns, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 115 (2017) 1161-1172.

[24] Zhaoqing Ke, Jianhua Wang, Conjugate heat transfer simulations of pulsed film cooling on an entire turbine vane, Applied Thermal Engineering, 109 (2016) 600-609.

[25] Zhaoqing Ke, Jianhua Wang, Numerical investigations of pulsed film cooling on an entire turbine vane, Applied Thermal Engineering, 87 (2015) 117-126.