Hongming Xu’s research interests include powertrain system control, fossil fuels and biofuels, fuel systems and mixture preparation, combustion, formation and mitigation of emissions.
Previous PhD students
1. Sathaporn Chuepeng, “Quantitative Impacat on Engine Performance and Emissions of High Proportion Biodiesel Blends and the Required Engine Control Strategies,” 2008 (joint supervision)
2. Jacek Misztal, “Study of Homogenous Charge Compression Ignition (HCCI) Combustion and Emission Characteristics in a Multi-Cylinder Engine,” 2009
3. Rizalman Mamat, “Performance and Emission Characteristics of an Automotive Diesel Engine Using Biodiesel Fuel with the Influence of Air Intake Variables,” 2009
4. Pawel Luszcz, “Combustion Diagnostics in Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition Optical and Thermal Single Cylinder Engines,” 2009
5. Marcin Frackowiak, “Modelling and Diagnostic Study of Flow in an Optical Engine with Negative Valve Overlapping for Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition,” 2009
6. George Constandinides, “Thermal Management and Control of a Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition (HCCI) Engine,” 2010
7. Dale Turner, “The Combustion and Emissions Performance Of Fuel Blends In Modern Combustion Systems,” 2010
8. Jun Zhang, “Particle Matter Emission Control and Related Issues for Diesel Engines,” 2011
9. Richie Daniel, “Combustion and Emissions Performance of Oxygenated Fuels in a Modern Spark ignition Engine,” 2012
10. Yanfei Li, “Experimental Study on Spray and Combustion Characteristics of Diesel-like Fuels,” 2012
11. He Ma, “Control Oriented Engine Modelling and Engine Multiple-objective Optimal Feedback Control,” 2013
12. Fan Zhang, “Spray, Combustion and Emission Characteristics of dieseline Fuel,” 2013
13. Haiying Li, “CFD Modelling Study of Spray and Combustion of Gasoline and DMF in Direct Gasoline Engines,” 2013
14. Chongming Wang, “Combustion and emissions of a direct injection gasoline engine using biofuels,” 2014
15. Changzhao Jiang, “Optical Investigation on the spray and combustion characteristics of the furan bio-fuels,” 2014
16. Dai Liu, “Combustion and emissions of an automotive diesel engine using biodiesel fuels under steady and start conditions,” 2014
17. Powen Tu, “Numerical and experimental study of spray characteristics in the gasoline direct injection engine,” 2015
18. Daliang Jing, “Experimental and numerical studies of fuel spray,” 2015
19. Chen Tan, “Model based Control for a Modern Automotive Diesel Engine,” 2015
20. Bowen Du, Numerical and Experimental Study of Spray Characteristics in the Gasoline Direct Injection Engine, 2016
21. Jianyi Tian, “Particulate emission characteristics of a light duty diesel engine under transient operation conditions,” 2015
22. Thomas Lattimore, “Combustion and emissions of a direct injection gasoline engine using EGR,” 2015
23. Ziman Wang, “Experimental study on diesel spray with single and multiple injection under room temperature and low temperature”, 2015 (joint supervision)
24. Yasser Qahtani, “Particulate matter characterization and control in premixed compression ignition engines”, 2016
25. Soheil Zeraati Rezaei, “Experimental investigation of a premixed compression ignition engine”, 2016
26. Tawfik Badawy, ‘’Optical Diagnostics of Flow and Combustion’’, 2017
27. Hengjie Guo, ‘’Experimental and Numerical Study on Multi-Jet Spray Collapse Under Flashing Condition in GDI Engines (Tsinghua University)’’, 2017
28. Yunfan Zhang, ‘’Optimization and control of a dual-loop EGR system on a modern Diesel engine’’, 2018.
29. Scott Cash, ‘‘Hybrid Electric Vehicle Modelling and Control’’, 2018.
30. Olalere Rafiu Kayode, ‘‘investigating the combustion and emissions behaviour of MF and MTHF'’, 2018.
31. Quan Zhou, ‘’Artificial Intelligence for Hybrid Electric Vehicles Development and Control’’, 2019.
32. Ziyang Li, ‘’Online dynamic optimization for the engine management system using artificial intelligence methods’’, 2019.
33. Shuai Liang, ‘’PAHs and soot formation in laminar partially premixed co-flow flames fuelled by PRFs at elevated pressures (Tsinghua University)’’, 2019
34. Aawishkar Dharmadhikari, ‘’Particular Matter Emissions Characteristics, Dynamics and Control in Compression Ignition Engines’’, 2020.
35. Lewis Parry, ‘’Diesel Engine Combustion with Dual Fuel and EGR, 2020.
36. Ji Li, ‘’ Driver-oriented Intelligent Control Methodology for Series-Parallel Hybrid Electric Vehicles’’, 2020.
37. Carlo Coratella, ‘’ Experimental investigation of the non-uniformity of jets velocities exiting a multi-hole injector’’, 2021.
38. Yinglong He, ‘’Developing and Evaluating the Driving and Powertrain Systems of Automated and Electrified Vehicles for Sustainable Transport’’, 2021.
39. Zhou Zhang, ‘’Effect of Ethanol Blending on Particulate Matter Emissions of Direct Injection Gasoline Engines (Tsinghua University)’’, 2021
40. Bin Shuai, ‘’ Real-time energy management of the hybrid off-highway vehicle using reinforcement learning’’, 2022.
Previous exchange PhD students
1. Xuesong Wu - Combustion and emissions analysis of ‘dual-injection strategy’, Joint Ph.D. with Xi’an Jiaotong University, 2010
2. Yan Gao – performance of catalyst for exhaust gas, Joint Ph.D. with Shandong University, 2013.
3. Haichun Ding – Spray Characterization of Alternative Fuel, Joint Ph.D. with Hefei University of Technology, 2015.
4. Jiyuan Xu - Investigation into the characteristics of DISI Injector deposits, Joint Ph.D. with Shangdong University, 2015.
5. Bo Wang – CFD Modelling of in-cylinder mixture, Joint Ph.D. with University of Nottingham, 2016
6. Yizhou Jiang – Optical Diagnostics of Engine Spray and Combustion, Tsinghua University, 2017
7. Zhirong Liang - Particle emissions with 2DxGCMS, Joint Ph.D. with Beihang University, 2017
8. Zhenhua Gao – Studies of Chemical Kinetics and Reaction Kinetics, Joint Ph.D. with Xi’an Jiaotong University, 2018
9. Mengzhu Zhang – Computational Fluid Dynamics and combustion analysis, Joint Ph.D. with Beijing institute of technology,2020
Current PhD students
1. Mr Zeyu Sun - Battery Thermal Management of Electrified Vehicles
2. Mr Cetengfei Zhang- Online optimal Energy Management Control for Hybrid vehicles
3. Miss Hua Min, Deep Reinforcement Learning for Real-time Control of Electrified Vehicles
4. Mr Xu He, Control Optimization of Extended-Range Electric Vehicles
5. Mr Fanggang Zhang – Energy Management of Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles
6. Mr Chengqing Wen, Improvement of Energy Management System for Electric Vehicles
Post-Doctoral Research Fellows
Several positions open - applications welcome
Current exchange PhD students
1. Ze Zhou – Experimental and numerical studies of flash boiling characteristics of binary fuels
2. Wan Chen – NVH of the vehicle system
Previous Research Fellows
1. Dr Guohong Tian, Jan 2008 – July 2010, now Associate Professor, Surrey University, Alternative fuels for Internal Combustion engines
2. Dr He Ma, March 2013 - Oct 2015, Real-time Model based Next Generation Engine Management System, now with Ricardo
3. Dr Arumugam Ramadhas, March 2013 - Feb 2015 - Cold Start of Diesel Engines (Marie Curie Fellow), now Principal Consultant, manufacturing vertical lead, Infosys Knowledge Institute, India
4. Dr Mohammadreza Anbari Attar, Oct 2013 - Dec 2015 – Combustion and Emissions High Efficient Engines with Boosting-2013-2015
5. Dr Asish Sarangi, May 2012 - Oct 2013- Fuel injection, now Assistant professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
6. Dr Dhananjay Kumar Srivastava – 2011, GDI Engine Deposits, now Assistant professor, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
7. Dr Guoxiang Lu, Mar 2015 - Jan 2017 – Low-Pressure EGR Control Strategy Development, now Director of Product Planning and New Automobile Technology Center, BYD Auto Industry Co. Ltd, China
8. Dr Chongming Wang, Jan 2015 - Jan 2018 – Combustion and emissions in DISI engine fuelled with biofuels (Marie Curie Fellow) – now Assistant Professor, Coventry University
9. Dr Manju Dhakad Tanwar, Mar 2015 – Feb 2017 - Engine combustion and after treatment (Marie Curie Fellow).
10. Dr Wei Zhang, Oct 2015 – Sept 2017 – Hybrid electric vehicle energy management and control
11. Lucas Miles Polglase, July 2014 – April 2018 – Engineer, development of advanced combustion systems
12. Dr Shaohua Zhong, Feb 2009 – Jan 2010 – Studies on biofuels, now Professor, Wuhan University of Technology
13. Dr Xiao Ma, Nov 2011- April 2013 – Optical diagnostics of spray and combustion, now Associate Professor, Tsinghua University
14. Dr Amrit Sahu, Feb 2017 - Apr 2019 - Optical diagnostics of combustion
15. Dr Haoye Liu, Feb 2018 – August 2021 – Advanced Fuel and Engine Combustion, now Associate Professor, Tianjin University
16. Dr Quan Zhou, April 2019 - April 2022 – Vehicle electrification and automation now Assistant Professor, University of Birmingham
Current Research Fellows
1. Dr Ji Li – Research fellow at CASE-V team, Human-Machine-AI System for Autonomous and Connected Vehicles