Qualifications
- PhD: Mechanical Engineering
- MSc: Mechanical Engineering
About
Yi Wang joined Campden BRI in 2024 as a Process Engineer. In his first year, Yi focused on developing ThermaGen, a thermal process modelling software that predicts in-container product temperature profiles and lethality in food and beverage applications using the finite difference method. He has also played a key role in supporting practical thermal process validation projects at clients’ production sites.
Before joining Campden BRI, Yi completed a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M University, following an MSc in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University. He then worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Birmingham Centre for Energy Storage at the University of Birmingham.
Yi specialises in heat transfer, fluid flow, and thermodynamics. His expertise includes internal flow and multiphase heat transfer, cryogenic heat transfer, electronics thermal management, and thermochemical energy storage. He has a strong research record, having led and contributed to projects funded by the US N ational Science Foundation (NSF) and the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). His work has been widely published in leading international journals.
Specific areas of expertise
- Heat transfer and fluid dynamics in pipe flow
- Phase change and energy conversion in thermodynamics process
- Cryogenic heat transfer
- Heat transfer and fluid flow test-rig
- Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) model using ANSYS Fluent and COMSOL
- Improve process efficiency using Python and Excel Macro