Prof. Jinliang Xu is the Dean of School of Energy Power and Mechanical Engineering in North China Electric Power University. His research interests include multiphase flow and heat transfer in energy and power systems, micro/nano heat transfer. Recently, he focused on using smart materials with hybrid micro/nano structure to improve the facility performance for energy and power engineering. He performed studies on loss of coolant accident for pressurized water reactor (PWR). He developed a new acoustic wave model for the critical liquid-vapor discharge criterion, which is important for the safety evaluation of PWRs. He developed a numerical model for the supercritical pressure coal-fired power plant, to precisely calculate the flow and heat transfer distribution of the boiling tubes, with the strong non-uniform distribution of heat flux of radiation and convection heat transfer on the water wall surface.

He developed a hybrid model for the microfluidic boundary conditions, and concluded that the boundary conditions are relied on the solid and fluid interactions while channel sizes have less effect. He proposed a novel method for the heat transfer enhancement and reduction of pressure drops in microscale. He found the bubbles initially nucleated in channel corners in silicon microchannels and the explosive boiling phenomenon. He found three distinct heat transfer regions depending on boiling numbers in silicon microchannels. He received the natural science foundation of China for outstanding young scholars in 2008. He has been the chief scientist for the national basic research program (973 program of China) from 2010. He contributed 200 journal articles and performed the review services for a set of journals. He is the outstanding reviewer for the ASME, J. of Heat Transfer in 2010. He served some international academic conference as the chair, track co-chair, session chair or organization committee member. He performed the keynote speech in more than 20 international conferences.