Kong, Xiang-Zhao

Education

Research Interests

• Multi-phase flow in porous media
• Granular materials
• Fluid mechanics

PhD Research Topic

3D-Visualization and modelling of multi-phase phenomena in porous media

Publications

Journal Papers

F. Stauffer, X.-Z Kong, W. Kinzelbach, A stochastic model for air injection into saturated porous media, Advances Water Resources, 32, 1180-1186 (2009).

X.-Z Kong, W. Kinzelbach, F. Stauffer, Migration of air channels: an instability of air flow in mobile saturated porous media, Chem. Eng. Sci., 64, 1528-1535 (2009).

W.-J Wang, X.-Z Kong, Z.-G. Zhu, Friction and relative energy dissipation in sheared granular materials, Phys. Rev. E, 75, 041302 (2007).

X.-Z Kong, M.-B. Hu, Q.-S. Wu, Y.-H. Wu, Effects of vibration frequency on intruders' position in granular bed, Phys. Lett. A, 356, 267-271 (2006).

X.-Z Kong, M.-B. Hu, Q.-S. Wu, Y.-H. Wu, Effects of bottleneck on granular convection cells and segregation, Granular Matter, 8, 119-124 (2006).

X.-Z Kong, M.-B. Hu, Q.-S. Wu, Y.-H. Wu, Kinetic energy sandpile model for conical sandpile development by revolving rivers. Phys. Lett. A, 348, 77-81 (2005).

X.-Z Kong, M.-B. Hu, Q.-S. Wu, Y.-H. Wu, Ring-like size segregation in vibrated cylinder with a bottleneck, Phys. Lett. A, 341, 278-284 (2005).

M.-B. Hu, X.-Z. Kong, Q.-S. Wu, Z.-G. Zhu, Experimental study of energy absorption properties of granular materials under low frequency vibrations, Int. J. Mod. Phys. B, 18, 2708-2712 (2004).

M.-B. Hu, Q.-S. Wu, X.-Z. Kong, Y.-H. Wu, Discharge oscillation of particles from a vertical Pipe with capillary outlet, Chinese Science Bulletin, 50, 1076-1078 (2005).

M.-B. Hu, X.-Z. Kong, Q.-S. Wu, Y.-H. Wu, Effects of container geometry on granular segregation pattern, Chinese Physics, 14, 1844-1849 (2005).

M.-B. Hu, X.-Z. Kong, Q.-S. Wu, Y.-H. Wu, Granular segregation in a multi-bottleneck container: Mobility effect, Int. J. Mod. Phys. B, 19, 1793-1800 (2005).

Conference Papers

X.-Z Kong, W. Kinzelbach, F. Stauffer, Fully visualized 3D experimental study of air injection in index-matched non-consolidated porous media, ICAPM 4th, Istanbul, Turkey, 2009. (Oral Presentation)

X.-Z Kong, W. Kinzelbach, F. Stauffer, When air is injected into mobile liquid-saturated porous medium, EGU, Vienna, Austria, 2009. (Oral Presentation)

X.-Z Kong, W. Kinzelbach, F. Stauffer, When air is injected into mobile liquid-saturated porous medium, Preferential and Unstable Flow in Porous Media - From Water Infiltration to Gas Injection, Monte Verita, Switzerland, 2009. (Oral Presentation)

X.-Z Kong, W. Kinzelbach, F. Stauffer, Migration of air flow in non-fixed saturated porous medium, AGU, San Francisco, USA, 2008. (Poster)

M.-B. Hu, Q.-S. Wu, X.-Z. Kong, Y.-H. Wu, Particle discharge process from a capillary pipe, Accepted by the conference on Traffic and Granular Flow '05, Oct. 10-12, 2005, Berlin, Germany.

X.-Z Kong, M.-B. Hu, Q.-S. Wu, Effects of bottleneck on granular convection cells and segregation, Shanghai, China, 2004. (Poster)