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ZHANG Hongwu
Position：Professor
Address：Department of Hydraulic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing，China
Postal code：100084
Telephone number：010-62772665（O）
Fax：
Email: zhhw@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn
Educational Background
From to School Department Degree
1978.9—1982.6 Wuhan University of Hydraulic and Electric Engineering River Engineering Bachelor
1983.9—1986.6 Wuhan University of Hydraulic and Electric Engineering (Yellow River Institute of Hydraulic Research) River Engineering Master
1992.9—1995.6 Tsinghua University Hydraulic Engineering PHD
Work Experience
From to Company Position
1982.6—1983.8 Yellow River Henan Bureau Technological staff
1986.7—1994.11 Yellow River Institute of Hydraulic Research Senior Engineer, Project Leader, Deputy Chief Engineer of Sediment Research Department
1994.12—2000.1 Yellow River Institute of Hydraulic Research Professorship senior engineer, Deputy Dean
1999.7 to now Tsinghua University Professor/PHD supervisor, Dean of Yellow River Research Center.
(1999.7-2000.1 Deputy Dean, and then Department consultant; 2015.2. Consultant of the State Council）
Teaching Courses
1. Model test of river engineering and The introduction of River Harnessing strategy For graduate students.
2.River Harnessing and flood control engineering and The introduction of river simulation For undergraduate students
Research Interests
1. Engineering Sediment Treatment and River Harnessing;
2. Theory and Technology of River simulation;
3. Study on influence of flood control in river-crossing project；
4. Study on dam break flood and debris flow.
Research Projects
Time Reward Ranking
2009 First Price of Da Yu science and Technology Award Third Author
2008 Second Price of National Science and Technology Progress Award Third Author
2007 Second Price of Natural Science Award of Ministry of Education Third Author
2005 First Price of Science and Technology Progress Award of Ministry of Education Second Author
2002 Second Price of Science and Technology Award of Chinese University First Author
1999 Young and Middle Age Experts with outstanding contribution to China
1999 National Prize of Excellent doctoral dissertation for the First Session First Author
1998 Second Price of National Science and Technology Progress Award Third Author
1997 Expert of the State council for Special Allowance
1996 One out of ten National hydraulic talents For the First Session
1995 Second Price of Technology Progress Award of Ministry of Water Resources First Author
1995 First batch of Experts to be selected into National Key Talent Project
1991 One of Ten Excellent Young People in Henan province for the First Session
Professional Service
From 2015 to now, appointed as consultant of the State Council;
From 2001-2006 and 2014, appointed as director of China Economic and Social Council;
From Jan. 1999 to now, appointed as Deputy Dean of Sediment Council of Chinese Hydraulic Engineering Society;
From Aug. 2001 to now, appointed as associate editor of Research and Progress of hydrodynamics and Journal of Hydrodynamics（SCI）;
From 1999 to now, Deputy Dean in Editorial Committee of Sediment Research;
In 2005, appointed as expert of Expert Committee in China International Engineering Consulting Corporation;
In most recent ten years, appointed as editor of Journal of Hydraulic Engineering ,water resources and hydropower engineering, The south to North Water Transfer and water conservancy science and technology, Yellow River of People;
In 2004, appointed as chief expert of the project of The Yellow River estuary model;
From 1998 to 2013, appointed as the ninth, tenth, eleventh member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (C.P.P.C.C.) ;
In 1995, appointed as the eighth member of committee of All-China Youth Federation
Honors and Awards
Project Type Project Title Project Duration
Enterprises and institutions commissioned Study on the feasibility of erosion in Ningxia-Inner Mongolia reach 2015.10-2020.10
Key projects of National Science Foundation The formation, break mechanism and risk control theory of high-risk barrier lake 2011.1-2014.12
Enterprises and institutions commissioned Study on the management countermeasures in Ningxia-Inner Mongolia reach of Yellow River 2012.3 to now
Enterprises and institutions commissioned Study on the test of flood control model in Ningxia-Inner Mongolia reach of Yellow River 2010.12 to now
Enterprises and institutions commissioned Study on the significant river-crossing engineering model and flood control assessment in the Lower Yellow River 2000.12 to now
National Fund committee, Yellow River committee The constraint mechanism of river regulation and regulating effect in the Lower Yellow River 2004.6-2007.6
Academic Achievement
Published 258 articles and 9 monographs solo or with coauthor.
Monographs include:
Study on the principle of relative stability and engineering planning of the check-dam system on the Loess Plateau;
The similarity law of hyperconcentrated floods model of the Yellow River;
Bend channel hydraulics;
River regulation in the meandering reach of the Lower Yellow River;
Evolution and simulation of the meandering river;
River Bridge Design; etc.
Articles include:
A unified formula for incipient velocity of sediment;
Training strategy for wandering channels of Lower Yellow River;
Quasi-2D mathematical model for morphology of the Lower Yellow River;
Formula of sediment carrying capacity of the Yellow River.
Patents include：
Device for building an indoor soil and water conservation model;
Real-time measurement system for surface flow field of flood control physical model test.
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