Dr Lu Tian

PhD, MEng, BEng

  • Lecturer in Sustainable Transport Technologies

Background

Lu received her PhD degree from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London in 2018 sponsored by a prestigious Imperial College President’s Scholarship. Prior to her appointment as a Lecturer in Sustainable Transport Technologies at Loughborough University, she had been a Research Associate at Imperial College working on a number of Projects sponsored by Research Councils and Industrial Partners, such as, Rolls-Royce UK and Toyota Europe Ltd. Her research interests include flame synthesis of nanomaterials, characterisation of alternative fuels, soot formation, combustion effects on turbulence closure, interactions between turbulence and chemistry and hybrid RANS-LES. Lu is also an honorary Lecturer at Imperial College London.

Qualifications

  • PhD 2018, Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London, London, UK.
    • Thesis title: “The impact of pressure fluctuation and scalar dissipation rate closures in turbulent flames”
  • MEng (Hons) 2013, Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
  • BEng 2010, Tongji University, Shanghai, China.

Key awards and accomplishments

  • Osborne Reynolds Award Finalist (the best PhD research in fluid mechanics in UK), 2019
  • Outstanding Chinese Non-Government-Funded PhD award (one of the only two awardees from Imperial College in that year), 2018-2019
  • Imperial College President’s PhD Scholarship, 2014-2018
  • National Scholarship for Postgraduates, 2012
  • Best Undergraduate Thesis awarded by Tongji University, 2010