The Second Class National Awards for Nature Science 2014

Multiscale Reactive Multiphase Flows (MRMFs) is a research frontier in a variety of scientific fields including energy science, environment science, chemical engineering science, and mechanics, and are frequently encountered in many engineering fields such as clear combustion, control of inhalable particle emission, and underground storage of greenhouse gases. The classical macroscopic continuum theory and methods face some essential difficulties for describing the mechanisms in MRMF

Prof. Chuguang Zheng’s group has achieved significant progress in developing mesoscopic theory and methods for Multiscale Reactive Multiphase Flow (MRMF) through over a decade of continuous efforts. The group has proposed a mesoscopic theoretical description of multiscale flows based on an extended constitution relation, then developed several mesoscopic models for multiscale field coupling, and designed a number of computational models and algorithms for MRMF, with some practical applications in the study on mechanisms of MRMF such as Enhanced Oil Recovery by CO2 flooding. These studies have made great contribution to the MRMF field. This group has published over 100 SCI papers in refereed international journals, which ranks the second among the 1700 worldwide institutes in the field of mesoscopic lattice Boltzmann method. Several representative papers are elected as high-impact ones by the American Physics Society and the Elsevier journals. The methods have been widely used in a various fields, such as in the study of cloud dynamics by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of USA, and the study of pollution of underground water and Carbon Capture Storage by the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The models and methods are also employed in some international softwares such as the OpenLB developed in German and the Palabos developed by the Flowkit Company in Switzerland.