PhD candidate
Name: Pei Xing NIU (牛培行)
E-mail: npx123@yeah.net
Education:
BEng (06/2008 - 09/2013) College of Mechanical & Electrical Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
MSc (09/2014 - 06/2017) College of Mechanical & Electrical Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (Supervisor: Prof. B.F. Chen)
PhD (09/2017 - present) College of Aerospace Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (Supervisors: Profs. T.J. Lu, T. Kim, & Dr. M.D. Atkins at Wits University, South Africa)
Research Interests:
Biomimetics
Journal articles:
P.X. Niu, M.D. Atkins, Y.Y. Liu, T.J. Lu, T. Kim. Kinematic responses of an autorotating samara to concentrated crosswind, Physics of Fluids 34 (2022) 111912 (Selected as a Featured article and Scilight by AIP publishing)
P.X. Niu, M.D. Atkins, Y.Y. Liu, M.X. Li, T.J. Lu, T. Kim, Intrinsic equilibrium of stably autorotating samaras, Physical Review E 106 (2022) 014405
