Dr. Xinfeng Gao
Assistant Professor

office: A103T Engineering
email: xinfeng.gao@colostate.edu
website: www.engr.colostate.edu/~gao/
phone: (970) 491-1003
fax: (970) 491-3827

Research Interests

• Parallel adaptive-mesh-refinement and high-resolution numerical algorithms for
  fluid dynamics
• High-performance computing on energy-efficient parallel computer architectures
  - Heterogeneous architectures including GPUs
  - Multi-threaded programming methods for advanced architectures
• Computational combustion and turbulence-chemistry modeling
  - Reynolds/Favre-averaged Navier-Stokes simulation
  - Adaptive large-eddy simulation
  - Fully-resolved flame simulation
• CFD-based design, analysis and optimization
  - Practical low-emission and high-efficiency combustion systems with geometric complexity
  - Turbomachinery

Teaching Interests

• Computational Fluid Dynamics
• Computational Combustion
• Numerical Methods

Education

• Ph.D., Aerospace Sciences and Engineering, Computational Fluid Dynamics and Propulsion, University of Toronto, Canada, 2008
• M.S., Aerospace Engineering, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Syracuse University, U.S.A., 2001
• B.E., Aerospace Engineering, Energy and Power Systems, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China, 1995

Memberships

• American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics(AIAA)
• The Combustion Institute
• American Physical Society (APS)