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Education

• Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Baylor University (2020)
• M.A. in Physics, Baylor University (2017)
• M.S. in Applied Chemistry, Yanshan University (2008)
• B.S. in Environmental Engineering, Yanshan University (2005)

Research Interests

• Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
• Compressible and multiphase flows
• Shock waves and high-speed aerodynamics
• Scientific machine learning
• Physics-informed artificial intelligence
• Differentiable physics and differentiable solvers
• Inverse problems and optimization
• Data assimilation and uncertainty quantification
• High-performance scientific computing
• Computational solid mechanics
• Computational nanoscale heat transfer
• Cardiovascular flow simulation

Selected Journal Publications

• B. Zhang, "A differentiable, shock-capturing neural solver for compressible flow simulation," Physics of Fluids 38, 046105 (2026).
• B. Zhang, "Banach neural operator for Navier–Stokes equations," Physics of Fluids 37, 086166 (2025).
• Zhang, “”, Phys. Fluids. 35, 095115 (2023). (Featured article, which has also been selected to appear in the AIP Publishing Showcase on Kudos.)
• Zhang, “Airfoil-based convolutional autoencoder and long short-term memory neural network for predicting coherent structures evolution around an airfoil”, Computers & Fluids. 258, 105883 (2023).
• Zhang, M. Usta, I. Khan, D. Ranjan, and C. K. Aidun, “Chemically reacting mixing in coaxial miscible liquid jets under variable viscosities and reaction rates”, Chem. Eng. Sci. 268, 118412 (2023).
• Zhang, B. Boyd, and Y. Ling, “Direct numerical simulation of compressible interfacial multiphase flows using a mass-momentum-energy consistent volume-of-fluid method”, Computers & Fluids 236, 105267 (2022).
• Zhang, S. Popinet, and Y. Ling, “Modeling and detailed numerical simulation of the primary breakup of a gasoline surrogate jet under non- evaporative operating condition”, Int. J. Multiphase Flow 130, 103362 (2020).
• Zhang, P.-H. Tsai, A.-B. Wang, S. Popinet, S. Zaleski and Y. Ling, “Short-term oscillation and falling dynamics for a water drop dripping in quiescent air”, Phys. Rev. Fluids 4, 123604 (2019).

Recent Preprints

• B. Zhang, "Information Transport and Observability in Compressible Aerodynamics," arXiv:2607.20177 (2026).
• S. A. Chibire, J.-T. Gau, and B. Zhang, "A Physics-Informed Neural Network Framework for Elastodynamic Wave Propagation in Bimaterial Systems," arXiv:2607.06479 (2026).

Work Experience

• Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northern Illinois University (2024-present)
• Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Notre Dame (2023-2024)
• Postdoctoral Fellow, George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology (2021-2023)