Professor Shan Xiaowen is currently a Chair Professor at the Institute of Advanced Study of BNBU. He received his BS and MS degrees from Beijing University in 1985 and 1988 respectively, and his Ph. D. from Dartmouth College in 1991. From 1991 to 2012, he worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Microsoft, and Exa Corporation (now part of Dassault Systems SE), all in the United States. In 2012, he joined the Beijing Research Center of the Commercial Aircraft Company of China (COMAC) as the Director for Aerodynamics. In 2016, he joined SUSTech to found the Department of Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering. Professor Shan is best known for the Shan-Chen non-ideal gas lattice Boltzmann model that he co-invented in 1993. The original paper published in Physical Review E was selected in 2018 as one of the 25 Milestones in celebrating the Journal’s 25th anniversary. In 2009, he was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society for “seminal contributions in the formulation and applications of lattice Boltzmann models for multiphase and complex fluids; and for pioneering Lattice-Boltzmann-method based fluid dynamics algorithms for real-world engineering applications.” Professor Shan published more than 70 research papers with more than 11,000 citations accumulated.
