As a visiting scholar, Dr. Fangwei Xie worked in Washington University in St. Louis from July 16th, 2014. His co-advisor is Professor Ramesh Agarwal, a Fellow of twelve societies including IEEE, AAAS, AIAA/SAE, ASME, SAE, SME, ASEE, and so on. Their co-research project is power transmission of oil film using computational fluid dynamics technology, and has obtained some useful results. It is of great practical significance to improve the performance of high power fluid transmission device. Dr. Xie’s research work will further strengthen exchange and cooperation with world-famous university in this field.
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