Xinying Liu

Personal profile

Position at the ZHAW

Research Associate
Team Aerodynamics

www.zhaw.ch/de/engineering/institute-zentren/zav/aircraft-technologies/aerodynamik

Expertise and research interests

Computational aeodynamics and gasdynamics (RANS, LES)
Direct numerical simulation (DNS) of compressible flow, schock wave and boundary layer interaction, unsteady wave processes
Jet propulsion and turbomachinery, engine performance calculation, engine design
Flight mechanics and flight simulation
Flight test data analysis

Educational background

2009 - 2012 B.Sc. Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, Universität Wuppertal
2012 - 2015 M.Sc. Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, RWTH Aachen
From 2019 Doctoral candidate at the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Membership of networks

• Alumni-Netzwerk der RWTH Aachen
• Schweizerische Vereinigung für Flugwissenschaften

Projects

• Konzept und Machbarkeitstudie eines Leistungsreservenrechners für die allgemeine Luftfahrt / Project co-leader / Project completed
• Sicherstellung der Strukturintegrität für Ageing Airplanes / Deputy project leader / Project completed
• TwingTec - Profiloptimierung / Team member / Project completed
• Historic Ageing Airplane / Deputy project leader / Project completed
• Sicherstellung der Strukturintegrität, Damage Tolerance-Analysen von Ageing Aircrafts / Team member / Project completed

Publications

• Liu, Xinying; Abà, Anna; Capone, Pierluigi; Manfriani, Leonardo; Fu, Yongling,

  2022.

  Atmospheric disturbance modelling for a piloted flight simulation study of airplane safety envelope over complex terrain.

  Aerospace.

  9(2), pp. 103.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace9020103

• Liu, Xinying; Manfriani, Leonardo; Fu, Yongling,

  2021.

  Concept of a new system synthesizing meteorological and orographic influences on the airplane safe energy envelope [paper].

  In:

  32rd Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, Shanghai, China, 6-10 September 2021.

  Winterthur:

  ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-23246

• Liu, Xinying; Anet, Julien Gérard; Manfriani, Leonardo; Fu, Yongling,

  2021.

  Real-time flight simulation with highly resolved wind fields from a LES model [poster].

  In:

  EGU General Assembly 2021, Online, 19-30 April 2021.

  European Geosciences Union.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-2622

• Liu, Xinying; Ferrari, Flavio; Manfriani, Leonardo,

  2018.

  Numerical and experimental investigation of cooling concept for an electric propulsion system for aerobatic aircrafts [paper].

  In:

  ICAS 2018 : congress proceedings, belo horizonte, brazil, september 09-14, 2018.

  31st Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 9-14 September 2018.

  Stockholm:

  ICAS.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-3345

• Guillaume, Michel; Vannelli, Marina; Liu, Xinying,

  2017.

  Structural integrity for historic Annex II airplanes for continuous airworthiness [paper].

  In:

  International Congress on Fracture (ICF), Rhodes, Greece, 18-23 June 2017.

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