Introduction:

Name:Kai Chen

Title: Research Professor

E-mail: cechenkai@scut.edu.cn

Personal homepage:

Supervisor: Master’s ＆ PhD Supervisor

Area: 

Power Engineering and Engineering Thermophysics Energy Chemical Engineering New Energy

Education:

2005-2009， Tsinghua University， Undergraduate

2009-2014， Tsinghua University， Ph.D

Research interests:

Heat transfer enhancementElectronic coolingBattery thermal management

Representative publications :

(1)Lingfeng Yu， Xiaoling Wu， Mengxuan Song， Kai Chen*. Hot spot temperature optimization of micro-channel heat sinks enabled by designing vortex generators andrealizing optimal flow pattern. Intemational Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer， 2025， 247: 127181.

(2) Chen Kai， Zhang Zhenli， Wu Bingheng， Song Mengxuan， Wu Xiaoling. An air-cooled system with a control strategy for efficient battery thermal management. Applied Thermal Engineering， 2024;236: 121578.

(3) Zhang Jiajun， Wu Xiaoling， Song Mengxuan*， Chen Kai*， An effective method for hot spot temperature optimization in heat conduction problem， Applied Thermal Engineering， 2023， 227: 120325.

(4) Kai Chen*， Jiajun Zhang， Xiaoling Wu， Mengxuan Song， Xing Zhang*， Hot spot temperature optimization of customized region in multi-region integrated system based on variational method， International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer， 193 (2022) 122964.

(5) Junsheng Hou， Xiaoling Wu， Kai Chen*， Yuan Dong， A direct optimization strategy based on field synergy equation for efficient design of battery thermal management system， International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer， 184 (2022) 122304