Faculty + Staff

Education

• Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Marquette University
• MS, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, The George Washington University
• BE, Thermal Energy and Power Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology

Courses and Advising

• EGE 2013 – Statics
• EME 3123 – Fluid Mechanics
• EME 4613 – Introduction to Thermal Systems

Research Interests

• Gasification, combustion, and pyrolysis of solid fuels
• Computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
• Machine learning

Selected Publications

1. D. Liang, S. Singer, Automated combustion model classification for char particle distributions using 3-D morphology analysis and pore-resolving CFD simulations, Fuel. 335 (2023) 127020. doi: 10.1016/j.fuel.2022.127020.
2. D. Liang, S. Singer, Pore-Resolving Simulations of Biomass Char Particle Combustion, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute. (2022). doi: 10.1016/j.proci.2022.07.098.
3. D. Liang, S. Singer, Pore-resolving simulations to study the impacts of char morphology on zone II combustion and effectiveness factor models, Combust Flame. 229 (2021) 111405. doi: 10.1016/j.combustflame.2021.111405.
4. Z. Wang, D. Liang, Y. Li, H. Tian, J. Liang, Influence of scale and atmosphere on the pyrolysis properties of large-scale bituminous coal, J Anal Appl Pyrolysis. 158 (2021) 105060. doi: 10.1016/j.jaap.2021.105060.

Activities and Service

• Member, The Combustion Institute