Xiaolin Zhong, Ph.D.

Xiaolin Zhong, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research focuses on computational fluid dynamics, hypersonic flows, and the development of high-order numerical methods. She leads the UCLA Hypersonics and Computational Aerodynamics Group, conducting studies on hypersonic boundary layer receptivity, stability, and transition. Her work also includes numerical simulation of real-gas hypersonic flow, DNS of strong shock interaction with turbulence, and numerical simulation studies of wave energy harvesting devices. Contact information: Email: xiaolin@seas.ucla.edu, Phone: (310) 825-2905.

Xiaolin Zhong is a Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at UCLA, specializing in Fluid Mechanics, hypersonic flow, and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). His research focuses on the numerical simulation of compressible turbulence, shock wave interactions, and hypersonic boundary layer instability. Zhong's work includes high-order finite-difference schemes, additive semi-implicit Runge–Kutta methods, and immersed interface methods for solving complex fluid dynamics problems. He has extensively studied boundary-layer receptivity, transition mechanisms, and the effects of surface roughness and real-gas phenomena on hypersonic flows. His research contributes to understanding and controlling aerodynamic behavior in extreme flow conditions.