On March 24th at 5 p.m., Professor Yan Hong, a renowned expert in the field of aeronautical engines in China and a professor at the School of Power and Energy at Northwestern Polytechnical University, passed away at the age of 57 due to illness.
Northwestern Polytechnical University’s School of Power and Energy released an obituary on March 26th, introducing Professor Yan Hong, who was born in September 1969. She was a non-partisan individual, the Executive Vice Chairman of the School’s Overseas Chinese Alumni Association, an AIAA Associate Fellow, and a specially appointed expert of the “Hundred Talents Program” in Shaanxi Province. In 1991, she was admitted to the School of Aeronautics at Northwestern Polytechnical University, where she obtained her bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees. She later pursued post-doctoral research at Tsinghua University’s Department of Engineering Mechanics.
From 1999 to 2005, Professor Yan Hong served as an Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Rutgers University in the United States. From 2005 to 2010, she was a Research Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Wright State University. In December 2010, she returned to her alma mater, Northwestern Polytechnical University, as a faculty member at the School of Power and Energy. She also held positions such as a member of the Shaanxi Provincial Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, Director of the Key Laboratory of Fluid Mechanics of Aircraft Engine in Shaanxi Province, and Vice Dean of the School of Power and Energy.
According to a report by “Sina News,” Professor Yan Hong had been engaged in teaching and research in the fields of supersonic/hypersonic flow control mechanisms, plasma flow control, computational fluid dynamics, and more. She served as an editorial board member of journals such as “Gas Dynamics” and “Propulsion Technology,” as well as a member of the Technical Committee of the European Aerospace and Space Science Conference. She has led multiple national-level research projects, including the National Natural Science Foundation, National Numerical Wind Tunnel Engineering, and National Key R&D Program. She had won the Best Paper Award at international academic conferences and published several high-quality academic papers in prestigious international journals like the AIAA Journal and Journal of Computational Physics.