Ao Xu (NPU) | Teaching

Supervised Students

Ph.D. Candidates

Xu-Long Li Sep 2025 - Present

Hua-Lin Wu Apr 2024 - Present

Ben-Rui Xu Apr 2024 - Present

Li-Sheng Jiang Apr 2023 - Present

Master's Candidates

Yun-Qian Bi Sep 2025 - Present

Yu-Cheng Ma Sep 2024 - Present

Zhi-Jie He Sep 2024 - Present

Zheng Zhao Sep 2023 - Present

Master's Graduates

Rui-Qi Li Photo Sep 2022 - Mar 2025
Evolution of Flow Structures in Channel Turbulence Under the Influence of Time-Varying Wall Temperature
(时变壁面温度影响下槽道湍流的流动结构演化)

Industry 🏢 Hangzhou Mushiny Technology Co., Ltd.
(杭州牧星科技有限公司)
Hua-Lin Wu Photo Sep 2021 - Mar 2024
Migration Strategies of Self-Propelled Particles in a Turbulent Flow Field
(自驱动颗粒在湍流场中的迁移策略研究)

Academia 🎓 Continued Ph.D. studies in our group at NPU
Ben-Rui Xu Photo Sep 2021 - Mar 2024
Coherent Structures of Shear Thermal Turbulence and Particle Sedimentations
(剪切热湍流的拟序结构及颗粒沉降)

Academia 🎓 Continued Ph.D. studies in our group at NPU
Bo-Tao Li Photo Sep 2020 - Mar 2023
Parallel Computation of the Lattice Boltzmann Method for Complex Flows on Multi-GPUs
(多GPU复杂流动格子Boltzmann方法的并行计算)

Industry 🏢 First Aircraft Institute of AVIC
(中国航空工业集团公司第一飞机设计研究院)
Wen-Hao Xue Sep 2019 - Mar 2022
Boundary Layers and Forces on Bluff Bodies and Airfoils in Thermal Turbulence
(热湍流中边界层与钝体及翼型受力特性研究)

Academia 🎓 Ph.D. Candidate at Northwestern Polytechnical University (NPU)

Students' Honors and Awards

University Outstanding Graduate Student Award (学校“优秀研究生”)

University Outstanding Graduating Student Award (学校“优秀毕业生”)

Bo-Tao Li (2023)

Ben-Rui Xu (2024)

Rui-Qi Li (2025)

University Outstanding Master's Thesis (学校“优秀硕士学位论文”)

Ben-Rui Xu (2024)

Rui-Qi Li (2025)

National Scholarship for Graduate Students (研究生国家奖学金)

Ben-Rui Xu (2022)

Ben-Rui Xu (2023)

Other Scholarships

First-Class Academic Scholarship: Bo-Tao Li (2021); Ben-Rui Xu (2022, 2023, 2025); Hua-Lin Wu (2022, 2023); Li-Sheng Jiang (2022)
First-Class Scholarship: Ben-Rui Xu (2022; 2023)
Second-Class Scholarship: Ben-Rui Xu (2025)
Wu Ya-Jun Special Scholarship: Hua-Lin Wu (2022)
Kewei Special Scholarship: Li-Sheng Jiang (2022)

Teaching at NPU

1. Teaching Courses

Undergraduate Courses

Undergraduate courses taught at NPU
Code	Course Name	Type	Semesters
U01M11039	Introduction to Viscous Fluid Mechanics (粘性流体力学导论)	Core	Spring 2020, Spring 2021
NXC4122	Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics (热力学和流体力学)	Core	Spring 2021, 2023, 2024
U01M11097	Viscous Fluid Mechanics (Course Head) (粘性流体力学)	Elective	Spring 2022, 2023, 2024
U01G11011	Tensor Analysis (张量分析)	Math & Sci	Spring 2023, Fall 2024, 2025
U01M11222	Continuum Mechanics (连续介质力学)	Platform	Spring 2023, Fall 2024, 2025
U01M11224	Fluid Mechanics Fundamentals (流体力学贯通课-流体力学基础)	Platform	Spring 2025

Graduate Courses

Graduate courses taught at NPU
Code	Course Name	Type	Semesters
M01M12024	Introduction to Turbulence (English-Taught) (全英文课程)	Elective	Spring 2020-2025 (Annual)
D01A11004	New Progress in Fluid Mechanics (流体力学研究的新进展)	Lecture	Fall 2023

2. Class Teacher

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Class 01101701: Aviation Engineering (International Class)

Awarded the University's "Outstanding Class Award" (被评为学校“先进班级”)

3. Undergraduate Innovation Training Projects

Supervised 7 projects involving 33 students.

S201910699348 (Bo-Tao Li et al.) Provincial 5 Members
S202010699434 (Li-Sheng Jiang et al.) Provincial 5 Members
S202010699577 (Ye-Kai Pan et al.) Provincial 4 Members
202110699053 (Le-Tian Jiang et al.) National 4 Members
S202110699324 (Qing-Yang Shi et al.) Provincial Rated "Excellent" on completion
S202310699570 (He-Fei Fan et al.) Provincial 5 Members
S202410699683 (Yun-Qian Bi et al.) Provincial 5 Members

4. Undergraduate Thesis Supervision

Supervised 17 students' graduation theses.

Class of 2025

Yun-Qian Bi ★ National Excellence Award (National Aerospace Majors) & Top 100 Thesis Nomination & University Outstanding Graduate

Zhuo-Ran Shang

Class of 2024

Zhi-Jie He ★ Department Excellent Thesis

Yu-Cheng Ma

Class of 2023

Xi-Kai Qu, Mu-Kun Liu

Class of 2022

Qing-Yang Shi ★ University Outstanding Graduate & Department Excellent Thesis

Yu-Chen Ge ★ University Outstanding Graduate & Department Excellent Thesis

Yi-Wei Zhang ★ University Outstanding Graduate

Le-Tian Jiang, Rui-Qi Li

Class of 2021

Ben-Rui Xu ★ National 2nd Prize (Aerospace Majors) & University Excellent Thesis & Outstanding Graduate

Li-Sheng Jiang ★ University Outstanding Graduate

Hua-Lin Wu, Ye-Kai Pan

Class of 2020

Bo-Tao Li ★ Department Excellent Thesis

Class of 2019

Wen-Hao Xue

5. Competitions & Resources

Teaching Innovation Competitions:

2021: School Level 1st Prize
2022: University Level 3rd Prize, School Level 1st Prize

Fluid Mechanics Micro-Course:
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Teaching at HKUST

MECH 2310 - Thermodynamics

Teaching Assistant | Fall 2015-16

Course description: Fundamental concepts; pure substance; work and heat; control volume; Ideal and real gases. First and second laws of thermodynamics. Entropy. Elementary power and refrigeration cycles.

Course instructor: Prof. Baoling HUANG

MECH 3300 - Energy Conversion

Teaching Assistant | Fall 2014-15

Course description: Thermodynamics of combustion, chemical equilibrium, refrigeration and mixtures of gases. Analysis of power generation, propulsion systems. Performance of modern steam plants, gas turbines, internal combustion engines and refrigeration plants.

Course instructor: Prof. Robin Lok Wang MA