{"id":814,"date":"2025-07-21T14:23:30","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T18:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tickle.utk.edu\/mae\/?page_id=814"},"modified":"2025-07-21T14:25:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T18:25:49","slug":"peng-zhao","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tickle.utk.edu\/mae\/faculty\/peng-zhao\/","title":{"rendered":"Peng Zhao"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading alignwide\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--x-small)\">Peng Zhao<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"alignwide has-medium-font-size\" style=\"margin-top:0\"><em><em>Associate Professor<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-style-columns-reverse alignwide is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading orange-mark\">Biography<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>February 2021\u2013Present<br><\/strong>Associate Professor in Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering at UT Space Institute<br>University of Tennessee, Knoxville<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>August 2015\u2013January 2021<br><\/strong>Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering<br>Oakland University, Rochester, MI<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"width: 15%;height: 16px;margin-bottom: 24px;border-bottom: 6px solid #ff8200\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Education<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>PhD in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, 2015<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>MA in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, 2011\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>BS in Thermal Science and Energy Engineering, USTC, 2009<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"width: 15%;height: 16px;margin-bottom: 24px;border-bottom: 6px solid #ff8200\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Research<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Combustion and reacting flow, advanced powertrain and propulsion systems, alternative fuels and chemical kinetics, numerical simulation and computational diagnostics, thermal management and safety of lithium-ion batteries<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"width: 15%;height: 16px;margin-bottom: 24px;border-bottom: 6px solid #ff8200\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Professional Service<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Member of SAE, ASME, ASEE and the Combustion Institute<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Guest editor of a special issue on Advancement of Low Temperature Engine Combustion Strategies in the journal of Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering, 2019\u20132020<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Invited reviewer for DOE Vehicle Technologies Office (VTO) Annual Merit Review (AMR), 2019<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Panelist for NSF Program of Combustion and Fire Systems, 2018<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Session chair of the US CSSCI Technical Conference, Minneapolis, 2018.<br>Member of the Early Career and Diversity Development Committee of US Section of the Combustion Institute (2017\u2013present)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Session chair of the US ESSCI Technical Conference, Princeton University, 2016<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Outstanding reviewer by journals including Combustion and Flame, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, Chemical Engineering Journal, Applied Energy, Fuel, Energy, Applied Thermal Engineering<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"width: 15%;height: 16px;margin-bottom: 24px;border-bottom: 6px solid #ff8200\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Awards and Recognitions<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Faculty Recognition for Outstanding Research, Oakland University, 2019<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rosen Graduate Supervision Fellowship, Oakland University Writing Center, 2019<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Bernard Lewis Fellowship, the Combustion Institute, 2018<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Faculty Fellowship Award, Oakland University, 2016<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gordon Y.S. Wu Fellowship, Princeton University, 2009\u20132014<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Guo Moruo Scholarship, USTC, 2009<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"width: 15%;height: 16px;margin-bottom: 24px;border-bottom: 6px solid #ff8200\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Publications<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>For a full list of publications, look at Zhao&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?hl=en&amp;user=GTNFRMsAAAAJ\">Google Scholar<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Selected Publications ( * indicates the corresponding author)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Yang, P. Zhao*, \u201cMinimum ignition energy and propagation dynamics of laminar premixed cool flames\u201d, Proc. Combust. Inst., 2020, accepted.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tao, P. Zhao*, B. VanDerWege, I. Claudia, H. Ge, \u201cFurther study on wall film effects and flame quenching under engine thermodynamic conditions\u201d, Combust. Flame, 216, 100-110, 2020.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>L. Zhang, P. Zhao*, M. Xu, X. Wang, \u201cComputational identification of the safety regime of Li-ion battery thermal runaway\u201d, Applied Energy, 261, 114440, 2020.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>P. Zhao*, S.H. Lam, \u201cToward computational singular perturbation without eigen-decomposition\u201d, Combust. Flame, 209, 63-73, 2019.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Q. Yang, P. Zhao*, H. Ge, \u201creactingFoam-SCI: an open source CFD platform for reacting flow simulation\u201d, Computers and Fluids, 290, 114-127, 2019.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>M. Tao, P. Zhao*, J. Szybist, P. Lynch, H. Ge, \u201cInsights on autoignition in engines: combining engine thermodynamic trajectory and fuel ignition delay iso-contour\u201d, Combust. Flame, 200, 207-218, 2019.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>M. Tao, A. Laich, P. Lynch*, P. Zhao*, \u201cOn the interpretation and correlation of high temperature ignition delays in reactors with varying thermodynamic conditions\u201d, Int. J. Chem. Kinet., 50, 410-424, 2018.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>M. Tao, P. Zhao*, D. DelVescovo, H. Ge, \u201cManifestation of octane rating, fuel sensitivity, and composition effects for gasoline surrogates under advanced compression ignition conditions\u201d, Combust. Flame, 192, 238-249, 2018.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Zhao, W. Liang, S. Deng, C. K. Law*, \u201cInitiation and propagation of laminar premixed cool flames\u201d, Fuel, 166, 477-487, 2016.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Zhao, S.Nackman, C.K. Law*, \u201cOn the application of betweenness centrality in chemicalnetwork analysis: computational diagnostics and model reduction\u201d, Combust. Flame, 162 (8), 2991-2998, 2015.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column pull-right is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull utkwds-stack-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-dbf27b9b wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column utkwds-stack has-light-background-color has-background is-layout-flow wp-container-core-column-is-layout-146c2e40 wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"border-top-style:none;border-top-width:0px;padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--small)\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full has-custom-border\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/tickle.utk.edu\/mae\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/07\/Peng-Zhao.jpg\" alt=\"Peng Zhao headshot\" class=\"wp-image-815\" style=\"border-bottom-color:var(--wp--preset--color--orange);border-bottom-width:5px;aspect-ratio:2\/3;object-fit:cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tickle.utk.edu\/mae\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/07\/Peng-Zhao.jpg 400w, https:\/\/tickle.utk.edu\/mae\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/07\/Peng-Zhao-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-4c0ddf3a wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\" style=\"padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60);padding-bottom:0;padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--60)\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">Contact Information<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Frank G. 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