Professor Xin Zhang has supervised nearly 50 PhD/EngD students as main supervisor; these students currently hold diverse positions in academia, aerospace and automobile industries, government, and other sectors.
| Student | Degree and Title of Thesis | Start Date | Completion Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aldo Rona | Aerodynamic and aeroacoustic estimation of oscillatory supersonic flows | October 1993 | June 1997 |
| David Jeffrey | An investigation into the aerodynamics of Gurney flaps | October 1994 | July 1998 |
| Xiaoxian Chen | A numerical investigation of self-sustained cavity flow oscillation | October 1997 | December 2000 |
| Jonathan D C Zerihan | An investigation into aerodynamics of wings in ground effect | October 1997 | April 2001 |
| Andrea E Senior | An investigation of a 3D generic diffuser in ground effect | October 1997 | August 2001 |
| Andreas Ruhrmann | The downforce producing flow physics of a diffuser equipped bluff body in ground effect | October 1999 | |
| Richard J Pattenden | An investigation of the flow around truncated cylinders | October 1999 | April 2004 |
| Graham A Ashcroft | The aeroacoustics of low speed unsteady flow | October 2000 | January 2004 |
| Edward Maina | The development of flow control vortices | October 1999 | January 2004 |
| Simon K Richards | Acoustic computation of sound radiation from ducts | October 2000 | April 2004 |
| Prithiraj Bissessuer | Unsteady aerodynamics using high-order methods | October 2000 | April 2007 |
| Jim McManus | Aerodynamics of a single wheel in contact with ground | November 2001 | Tbc |
| Stephen Mohan | The aerodynamics of multi-element wings in ground effect | October 2001 | April 2005 |
| Andrew Wells | Experimental and computational of slat aerodynamics and aeroacoustics with flow control | October 2002 | September 2007 |
| David Angland | Aerodynamics and aeroacoustics of flap side edges | October 2002 | June 2006 |
| Sammie C C Chan | An investigation into the reduction of flow induced tonal noise using plasma actuators | October 2002 | April 2006 |
| Zhaoka Ma | Computational aeroacoustic modelling of slat noise | October 2003 | January 2007 |
| Xun Huang | Adaptive mesh refinement for computational aeroacoustics | October 2003 | October 2007 |
| Martinus Van den Berg | Aerodynamics interaction of an inverted wing with an rotating wheel | October 2003 | May 2007 |
| Koen Boorsma | Aeroacoustic control of landing gear noise using perforated fairings | September 2004 | June 2008 |
| Edward Peers | Physics based acoustic modelling of bluff bodies | October 2004 | May 2009 |
| Takafumi Nishino | An investigation of flow around a circular cylinder in ground effect | October 2004 | October 2007 |
| Chris Booker | Large scale vortex generation modelling and breakdown prediction | October 2005 | July 2010 |
| Tom Westbury | Aeroacoustics of a single wheel | October 2005 | |
| Michael Spiteri | Aerodynamic control of bluff body noise | November 2005 | July 2010 |
| Yuichi Kuya | Aerodynamics and Multi-fidelity surrogate modelling of an inverted wing with vortex generators in ground effect | May 2006 | December 2009 |
| Jack Heyder-Bruckner | The Aerodynamics of an inverted wing and a rotating wheel in ground effect | October 2006 | April 2011 |
| Juan Molina | Aerodynamics of heaving wing in ground effect | October 2007 | September 2011 |
| Wen Liu | Computational aeroacoustics of single LG wheel | October 2006 | January 2012 |
| Koen van Mierlo | Computational aeroacoustics of landing gear bogies | October 2006 | Viva May 2014 |
| Kondwani Kanjere | Aeroacoustic investigation of aircraft spoiler during steep approach | October 2006 | January 2013 |
| Cindy Wang | Computational aeroacoustics of slat tracks | January 2007 | December 2014 |
| Peng Chen | Identification and attenuation of slat noise | April 2008 | April 2012 |
| Xinfu Luo | Plasma based jet vortex generators for flow control | April 2008 | May 2012 |
| Antoni Alomar | Investigation into noise emitted by large bluff bodies with large roughness | October 2009 | April 2013 |
| Ju Wu | Efficient Prediction Method for Broadband Acoustic Mode Radiation from Engine | October 2009 | October 2011 |
| Scott Chappell | Plamsa actuators for high lift devices | October 2009 | September 2013 |
| Michael Sanderson | Efficient computation of landing gear noise | October 2010 | |
| Jie Zhou | Prediction of cabin noise in aircraft and its abatement using porous material | April 2010 | April 2014 |
| Chuikun Zeng | Efficient CAA algorithm dvevelop | October 2011 | |
| Shuming Miao | GPU based CAA computation | ||
| Hou Yu | Physics based aircraft noise model | October 2012 | |
| Fuyang Tao | Aerodynamics and aeroaocustics of air distribution duct | October 2012 | |
| Stefano Spagnolo | Unsteady aerodynamic loads on aircraft landing gears | January 2012 | |
| Mathias Aubert | Landing gear load control | November 2012 | |
| Utza Oza | Large scale computation of landing hear aero loads | October 2012 | |
| Tim Heffernon | Fast multipole methods for aircraft noise | October 2012 | |
| Sarah Premachandra | Aircraft aero load model | August 2013 | |
| Sylvain Gross | Plasma actuator for flow control | October 2013 | |
| Meng Wang | Aircraft flow and noise computation | September 2013 | |
| Fernando Gea Aguilera | Computational aeroacoustics of broadband engine noise | October 2013 | |
| Ravish Karve | Computational and experimental study of CROR | October 2104 | |
| Yuhao Sun | Efficient propagation eqs based on wave splitting methods | February 2015 | |
| Yi Fang | Experimental assessment of sound absorbing metasurfaces for aeroacoustic applications | February 2015 | |
| Siyang Zhong | Simulation of entropy and acoustic waves | February 2015 | |
| EngD supervision | |||
| Sara Windidate | Computation of Bluff Body Flow for Active Control Applications | October 2009 | April 2014 |
| James Gill | Contro-rotating openrotor broadband noise | October 2010 | December 2014 |
| Martin Cottage | Active control of aero load | October 2013 | |