Zuguo Shen

Zuguo Shen is a lecturer and master’s supervisor in the School of Automotive Engineering at Wuhan University of Technology and Co-PI of the Combustion and Laser Sensing Laboratory. He studies energy conversion, fluid flow, and heat and mass transfer in phase-change thermal storage, thermoelectric generation, fuel-cell thermal and water management, and solar thermal utilization.

He has led and participated in projects supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the National Key R&D Program. He has published 25 SCI-indexed papers in these areas.

• Ph.D., Power Engineering and Engineering Thermophysics, School of Energy and Power Engineering, Chongqing University
• B.Sc., Thermal Energy and Power Engineering, School of Energy and Power Engineering, Chongqing University

[1] Z. Shen, S. Chen, X. Liu, B. Chen. A review on thermal management performance enhancement of phase change materials for vehicle lithium-ion batteries. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 2021; 148: 111301. link

[2] B. Huang, Z. Shen*. Performance assessment of annular thermoelectric generators for automobile exhaust waste heat recovery. Energy 2022; 246, 123375. link

[3] Z. Shen, X. Liu*, S. Chen, S. Wu, L. Xiao, Z. Chen. Theoretical analysis on a segmented annular thermoelectric generator. Energy 2018,157: 297-313. link

[4] Z. Shen, B. Huang*, X. Liu. Effect of structure parameters on the performance of an annular thermoelectric generator for automobile exhaust heat recovery. Energy Conversion and Management 2022; 256, 115381. link

[5] Z. Shen, Li. Tian, X. Liu*. Automotive exhaust thermoelectric generators: Current status, challenges and future prospects. Energy Conversion and Management 2019;195: 1138-1173. link

[6] L. Tian, X. Liu, S. Chen,Z. Shen*. Effect of fin material on PCM melting in a rectangular enclosure. Applied Thermal Engineering, 2020;167: 114764. link

[7] Z. Shen, S. Chen, B. Chen. Heat transfer performance of a finned shell-and-tube latent heat thermal energy storage unit in the presence of thermal radiation. Journal of Energy Storage 2022, 45: 103724. link

[8] B. Huang, L. Tian, Q. Yu, X. Liu, Z. Shen*. Numerical analysis of melting process in a rectangular enclosure with different fin locations. Energies 2021;14(14): 4091. link

• Reviewer for Energy Conversion and Management, Energy, Applied Energy, and Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science

• Outstanding Reviewer, Energy Conversion and Management