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Tian Li

Senior Research Scientist and Associate Professor

RISE Fire Research

Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Biography

Tian Li is a Senior Research Scientist at RISE Fire Research AS, which is a limited company, partly owned by RISE - Research Institutes of Sweden (70 %) and SINTEF (30 %). He also an Adjunct Associate Professor at Department of Energy and Process Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

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Interests

  • Fire Research
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulation
  • Renewable Energy
  • Combustion Engine
  • High Performance Computing

Education

  • PhD in Thermal Energy, 2015

    Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

  • MEng in Power Machinery and Engineering, 2011

    Tongji University, China

  • BSc in Physics, 2008

    Zhengzhou University, China

Research Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Senior Research Scientist

RISE Fire Research

Apr 2020 – Present Trondheim, Norway
 
 
 
 
 

Visiting Researcher

Sandia National Laboratories

Dec 2019 – Mar 2020 Livermore, US
 
 
 
 
 

Associate Professor

Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Aug 2017 – Present Trondheim, Norway
 
 
 
 
 

Visiting Researcher

Chalmers University of Technology

Jan 2016 – Dec 2016 Gothenburg, Sweden
 
 
 
 
 

Postdoctoral Fellow

Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Jun 2015 – Jul 2017 Trondheim, Norway
 
 
 
 
 

Visiting Researcher

Sandia National Laboratories

Apr 2013 – Jul 2013 Livermore, US
 
 
 
 
 

PhD Research Fellow

Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Sep 2011 – Apr 2015 Trondheim, Norway
 
 
 
 
 

Research Assistant

ENSTA Bretagne

Sep 2009 – Dec 2009 Brest, France
 
 
 
 
 

Research Assistant

Tongji University

Sep 2008 – May 2011 Shanghai, China

Skills

C/C++

Python

MATLAB

Fortran

Git

Slurm

PBS Pro

Kinetic Modeling and Simulation

Combustion Modeling and Simulation

Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulation

Projects

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BioCarbUp

Optimising the biocarbon value chain for sustainable metallurgical industry

GASPRO

Fundamental insight into biomass gasification using experiments and mathematical modelling

GrateCFD

Enabling optimum Grate fired woody biomass and waste to energy plant operation through Computational Fluid Dynamics

CenBio

Bioenergy Innovation Centre

SiNoPSE

Sino-Norwegian Partnership on Sustainable Energy

GAFT

Gasification and FT-Synthesis of Lignocellulosic Feedstocks

BioCarb+

Enabling the biocarbon value chain for energy

GasBio

Gasification for Biofuels

Combustion and Emission Characteristics of Bio-Fuel

Investigation of low temperature combustion and emission characteristics of bio-fuel focusing on critical temperature

Combustion and Emission Characteristics of High Pressure Diesel Fuel Spray

Investigation of combustion and emission characteristics of high pressure diesel fuel spray in controllable active thermo-atmosphere

HCCI combustion in a GDI engine

Fundamental study on HCCI combustion in a GDI engine using ion current detection.

Ultra Low Emission Internal Combustion Engine Using Rankine Cycle

Study on ultra low emission internal combustion engine using rankine cycle

Publications

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Computational fluid dynamic simulations of thermochemical conversion of pulverized biomass in a dilute flow using spheroidal approximation

A drag force model for spheroids, referred as the spheroid model, was implemented in OpenFOAM, in order to better predict the …

Effects of scaling laws on the combustion and NOx characteristics of hydrogen burners

The effect of constant velocity and constant residence time scaling on the local nitric oxide (NOx) emissions and flame characteristics …

Grid-independent Eulerian-Lagrangian approaches for simulations of solid fuel particle combustion

In this study, a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model with three coarse graining algorithms is developed with the implementation of …

The influence of size and morphology on devolatilization of biomass particles

This modeling study examines the effect of particle morphology on devolatilization of biomass particles at conditions relevant for …

A fast-solving particle model for thermochemical conversion of biomass

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations of large-scale furnaces or reactors for thermal conversion of solid fuels remains …

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