Professor Zhongyun Fan
Director - BCAST - (Professor)
Gardiner Building 001d
- Email: zhongyun.fan@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 266406
Research area(s)
Fan’s research has been focused on:
- Understanding of early stages of solidification covering prenucleation, heterogeneous nucleation, Grain initiation and Grain refinement
- Developing metallic materials for closed-loop recycling
- Developing innovative techniques for processing light metals.
Research Interests
Professor Fan’s current research interest covers metallic materials processing, solidification under intensive forced convection, heterogeneous nucleation, structure of liquid metals, rheology and alloy development.
Research grants and projects
Research Projects
Grants
Funder: Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council
Duration: September 2021 - February 2025
Funder: Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council
Duration: January 2021 - December 2024
Funder: Advanced Propulsion Centre UK
Duration: July 2020 - June 2023
Funder: European Commission
Duration: October 2019 - September 2023
Funder: Innovate UK
Duration: July 2019 - June 2021
Funder: Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council
Duration: March 2019 - February 2024
Funder: Innovate UK
Duration: November 2017 - April 2020
Funder: Innovate UK
Duration: September 2017 - August 2019
Project Chamaeleon offers UK capability to deliver high volume, lightweight materials and processing technologies to reduce weight and improve vehicle rigidity in new architectures so that electric and hybrid powertrains can be fitted on common platforms, rather than bespoke designs.
Funder: Innovate UK
Duration: July 2017 - March 2019
Funder: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
Duration: November 2015 - October 2022
Funder: HAFCE
Duration: July 2015 - March 2017
On the continual development of research facilities for solidification and casting of metallic materials at BCAST
Funder: Technology Strategy Board
Duration: June 2015 - May 2018
The main technical objectives are the demonstration of the use of a novel end of life recycling compatible, high energy absorbing aluminium extrusion alloy in combination with overcasting techniques for joints and roll forming for the manufacture of hydraulic cylinders with the incorporation of energy absorbent metallic foam and honeycomb structures to make a new generation of lightweight crash management systems that meet or exceed the requirements for mechanical properties, durability and load management for automotive and rail transport applications.
Funder: EPSRC
Duration: January 2014 - January 2024
Funder: European Commission
Duration: January 2014 - December 2016
Funder: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council -- Capital for great technologies--Advanced materials
Duration: June 2013 - March 2014
AMCC 1 (Building and Equipment)
Funder: European Commission
Duration: June 2012 - July 2016
Funder: EPSRC
Duration: December 2011 - May 2016
Funder: EPSRC
Duration: May 2010 - October 2015
Research links
Co-author network
- Prof Shouxun Ji
- Dr Yun Wang
- Dr Jayesh Patel
- Prof Geoffrey Scamans
- Dr Changming Fang
- Dr Ian Stone
- Dr Yijie Zhang
- Prof Hari Nadendla
- Dr Zhongping Que
- Dr Feng Gao
- Dr Hua Men
- Dr Yan Huang
- Dr Jaime Lazaro Nebreda
- Prof Dmitry Eskin
- Dr Chamini Mendis
- Prof Isaac Chang
- Dr Brian Mckay
- Prof Hamid Assadi
- Dr Zhichao Niu
- Dr Lorna Anguilano
- Dr Ebad Bagherpour Jahromi
- Prof Hua Dong
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Research group(s)
- BCAST
- IMM