About Me
Hello, I am Zelai. My research focuses on soft matter and fluid mechanics by numerical simulation.
Contact Information
- Email: zxu@bio.ens.psl.eu
Education
| B.S. Lanzhou University | 2013-2017 |
| M.Eng. University of Science and Technology of China | 2017-2020 |
| Dissertation: Numerical Study on the Interfacial Flow Caused by Temperature/Concentration Gradient | |
| Ph.D. University of British Columbia | 2021-2024 |
| Dissertation: Mechanics of Hydrogels in Flow Fields | |
Positions
| Post-doctoral researcher in École Normale Supérieure de Paris | 2025-Now |
Research Interests
- Numerical Simulation on Multi-Phase Flow
Key words: diffuse interface method, Maragoni effect, moving contact line - The Interaction between Hydrogel and Surrounding Fluid
Key words: poroelastic model, interfacial phenomena, swelling, hysteresis phenomena, biophysics
Teaching
CHBE 352 Transport Phenomena II, Teaching Assistant
APSC 183 Matter and Energy II, Teaching Assistant
Awards
Faculty of Applied Science Graduate Award, University of British Columbia (2021)
Excellent Master's Thesis, Anhui Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (2021)
Outstanding Graduates, University of Science and Technology of China (2020)
Presentations
- November 2024, Oral Presentation, APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, Salt Lake City, United States
- July 2024, Oral Presentation, 16th World Congress on Computational Mechanics and 4th Pan American Congress on Computational Mechanics, Vancouver, Canada
- November 2023, Oral Presentation, APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, Washington, DC, United States
- July 2023, Invited Talk, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China
- May 2023, Oral Presentation, 8th Pacific Rim Conference on Rheology, Vancouver, Canada
- Feb 2023, Oral Presentation, CHBE (Chemical and Biological Engineering) research day at UBC, Vancouver, Canada
- Oct 2022, Oral Presentation, 72nd Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference, Vancouver, Canada
- Jun 2022, Poster Presentation, Frontiers in Biophysics, Vancouver, Canada
- Oct 2021, Oral Presentation, 71st Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference, Montreal (online), Canada
- Nov 2019, Oral Presentation, APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, Seattle, United States
- Aug 2019, Oral Presentation, Chinese Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Hangzhou, China
Publications
- Xu, Z.; Yue, P.; Feng, J. J. Hystereses in Flow-Induced Compression of a Poroelastic Hydrogel. Soft Matter, 2024, Published Online.
- Xu, Z.; Yue, P.; Feng, J. J. Estimating the Interfacial Permeability for Flow into a Poroelastic Medium. Soft Matter, 2024, Published Online. (Featured "Soft Matter Recent HOT Articles")
- Xu, Z.; Yue, P.; Feng, J. J. A Theory of Hydrogel Mechanics That Couples Swelling and External Flow. Soft Matter, 2024, 20 (27), 5389–5406.
- Xu, Z.; Zhang, J.; Young, Y.-N.; Yue, P.; Feng, J. J. Comparison of Four Boundary Conditions for the Fluid-Hydrogel Interface. Phys. Rev. Fluids, 2022, 7 (9), 093301.
- Xu, Z.; Yue, P.; Feng, J. J. Poroelastic Modelling Reveals the Cooperation between Two Mechanisms for Albuminuria. J. R. Soc. Interface, 2023, 20 (198), 20220634.
- Xu, Z.-L.; Chen, J.-Y.; Liu, H.-R.; Sahu, K. C.; Ding, H. Motion of Self-Rewetting Drop on a Substrate with a Constant Temperature Gradient. J. Fluid Mech., 2021, 915, A116.
- Li, L.; Zhang, J.; Xu, Z.; Young, Y.-N.; Feng, J. J.; Yue, P. An Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian Method for Simulating Interfacial Dynamics between a Hydrogel and a Fluid. Journal of Computational Physics, 2022, 451, 110851.
- Ma, Z.-Y.; Pan, X.-F.; Xu, Z.-L.; Yu, Z.-L.; Qin, B.; Yin, Y.-C.; Gao, Y.-C.; Yu, S.-H. Nanosheet-Coated Synthetic Wood with Enhanced Flame-Retardancy by Vacuum-Assisted Sonocoating Technique. Nano Res., 2022.
- Ma, Z.-Y.; Yu, Z.-L.; Xu, Z.-L.; Bu, L.-F.; Liu, H.-R.; Zhu, Y.-B.; Qin, B.; Ma, T.; Zhan, H.-J.; Xu, L.; Wu, H.-A.; Ding, H.; Yu, S.-H. Origin of Batch Hydrothermal Fluid Behavior and Its Influence on Nanomaterial Synthesis. Matter, 2020, 2 (5), 1270–1282.