Wangyu Liu received her B.S. degree (1988) in Xi’AN Jiaotong University and M.S. degree (1994), Ph.D. degree (1998) both in the major of Mechanical Manufacturing and Automation from South China University of Technology. From 2003 to 2004, she was a visiting scholar in the Engineering Department of Cambridge University, and in 2011 she paid a visit in McGill University as a guest professor. She has been the associate professor (2000 ) and full professor(2009~) in South China University of Technology. Wangyu Liu’s research interest is focused on the bio/bionic-design of functional structures, including the multi-body dynamic system of wind turbine machine imitating the off-shore palm trees, bionic vapor chamber imitating the high efficient heat and mass transfer functions of plant leaves. Current research progress of Wangyu Liu ’group in bio/bionic multi-scale design mainly covers two aspects: multi-scale investigation into the cellular tissue reconstruction and physical characterization for different organs of particular plants, mainly including the body, blade sheath and leaf, as well as their applications in active design oriented 3-D printing, Lithium battery separator design and fabrication. Another aspect is exploring the evolution traces of natural structure and functions of plants and the prospect engineering applications, including the bionic design for non-uniform material or composites, bionic flexible joints and bionic vapor chamber.

Recent publications

[1] Liu W*, Luo Y, Wang L, et al. Water transport in leaf vein systems and the flow velocity measurement with a new method[J]. Journal of Plant Physiology, 2016, 204: 74-84.

[2] Liu W*, Peng Y, Luo T, et al. The performance of the vapor chamber based on the plant leaf[J]. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2016, 98: 746-757.

[3] Liu W*, Wang N, Jiang X, et al. The mechanical influences of the graded distribution in the cross-sectional shape, the stiffness and Poisson׳ s ratio of palm branches[J]. Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 2016, 60: 203-211.

[4] Liu W*, Luo Y, Chen W, et al. Investigation on thermal resistance of a novel evaporator wick structure[J]. Applied Thermal Engineering, 2015, 91: 731-738.

[5]Wangyu Liu*, Jiale Huang, Ningling Wang, Shuwen Lei, The influence ofmoisture content on the interfacial properties of natural palm fiber–matrix composite,Wood Science and Technology. 49:271-387. 2015

[6]Wangyu Liu*, Ningling Wang, Jiale Huang, Huanhuan Zhong, The effect of irregularity, residual convex units and stresses on the effective mechanical properties of 2D auxetic cellular structure, Materials Science and Engineering: A. 609, 26–33, 2014.

[7] Luo Y, Liu W*, Wang L, et al. Heat and mass transfer characteristics of leaf-vein-inspired microchannels with wall thickening patterns[J]. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2016, 101: 1273-1282.

[8] Huang J, Liu W*, Zhou F, et al. Mechanical properties of maize fibre bundles and their contribution to lodging resistance[J]. Biosystems Engineering, 2016, 151: 298-307.

[9]Wang N, Liu W*, Tang A, et al. Strain isolation: A simple mechanism forunderstanding and detecting structures of zero Poisson's ratio. Physica status solidi (b).251(11): 2239-2246. 2014

[10]Ningling Wang, Wangyu Liu*, Jiale Huang, Ke Ma, The structure-mechanical relationship of palm vascular tissue. Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials. 36C:1-11. 2014.

[11]Wang Ningling, Liu Wangyu*, Lai Jiping, An attempt to model the influence ofgradual transition between cell wall layers on cell wall hygroelastic properties, Journal of Material Science. 49(5), 1984-1993,2014.

[12]Wang Ningling, Liu Wangyu*, Peng Yi. Gradual transition zone between cell wall layers and its influence on wood elastic modulus. Journal of Material Science. 48(14), 5071-5084, 2013.

[13]Luo Yuanqiang, Liu Wangyu*, Analysis of the displacement of distributed compliant parallel-guiding mechanism considering parasitic rotation and deflection on the guiding plate, Mechanism and Machine Theory,.2014.06.005. 2014

[14] Peng Yi, Liu Wangyu*, Wei Chen, Wang Ningling, A conceptual structure for heat transfer imitating the transporting principle of plant leaf. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. 71, 79-90, 2014

[15] Peng Yi, Liu Wangyu*, Wang Ningling, Tian Yufu, Chen Xuelin. A novel wick structure of vapor chamber based on the fractal architecture of leaf vein. International Journal of Heat and Masss Transfer. 63, 120-133, 2013.

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