About Me
Hi! I'm Zhao Zhang, a PhD student in the Department of Aeronautics at Imperial College London, advised by Prof. Someone. My research focuses on a one-sentence summary of your field, and I'm especially curious about the big question you most want to answer.
Before that, I received my master's degree in Mechanics from the University of Science and Technology of China and my bachelor's degree in Energy and Power Engineering from Northwestern Polytechnical University. Outside the lab, I enjoy hobby one and hobby two, and I like writing short essays that explain interesting science in plain language.
Footprints
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– PresentImperial College LondonPhD in Aeronautics (in progress)
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–University of Science and Technology of ChinaM.Eng. in Mechanics
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–Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityB.Eng. in Energy and Power Engineering
Publications
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Journal of Fluid Mechanics
At the nanoscale, thermal noise makes liquid threads break into droplets of random sizes. We show that a well-chosen external perturbation can override this noise and produce uniform breakup, and we derive a criterion for when the perturbation wins over the fluctuations.
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Physics of Fluids
Nanometre-thick liquid films on chemically patchy surfaces are torn apart by thermal fluctuations. Combining a stochastic lubrication equation with molecular dynamics, we find that slip and intermolecular forces amplify this instability, and that a heterogeneous surface behaves much like a uniform one with averaged properties.