Dr. Hongye Zhang, University of Edinburgh, UK
Dr Hongye Zhang (FHEA, MIET, MIEEE, h-index 15), also a Visiting Research Fellow at The University of Manchester, engaged with the H2GEAR project to develop the world’s first Hyperconducting motor for zero-emission aircraft. He won an IEEE CSC Graduate Study Fellowship in Applied Superconductivity in 2021. His research interests include HTS modelling, design of HTS machines, hydrogen energy, and engineering AI. Zhang is an ESAS Board Member, and an invited Session Chair for SMT 2024, Bangkok, Thailand. He first illustrated the invalidity of the ‘thin-film approximation’ for modelling HTS coated conductors (CCs) at high frequencies and proposed several 1D, 2D, and 3D multilayer models for HTS CCs, coils, and stacks based on the T- and H-formulation [1-3] (see CV). He presented multiple guest lectures and invited talks regarding calculating/modelling dynamic resistance/loss [4-6, 16]. He has been working on the design and modelling of various HTS machinery [7-8]. Notably, he illustrated the ‘Lenz’s law violated phenomenon’ in a closed HTS loop using the H-formulation [9] and H-ϕ formation [10]. With his colleagues, they developed an open-access design tool for HTS dynamos based on AI [11-12].
