Dr Muting Hao

Dr Muting Hao is a Research Fellow at the Oxford Thermofluid Institute (OTI), and an Associate Member of Faculty at the Department of Engineering, University of Oxford. Her research is focused on advancing fundamental computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and its application across multiple areas, with a particular emphasis on improving the efficiency of aviation technology, a crucial area for addressing current and future energy and pollution challenges worldwide.

Dr Muting Hao came to Oxford and joined the CFD Methodology group in 2017. She received her Dphil degree in 2022, in Oxford Thermofluid Institute at the University of Oxford, where she specialised in numerical methods and conjugate heat transfer for film cooling of gas turbine, with sponsorship from Rolls-Royce. After that, she continued as Postdoctoral Researcher at OTI, working on high bypass ratio turbofan design under the UKRI scheme. Her research has gained significant recognition in both industry and academia, culminating in prestigious awards such as the UKRI Computing Insight UK 2023 Jacky Pallas Award and The Osborne Reynolds 2024 Best Poster Award. Since 2024, she has been awarded a Career Development Research Fellow in Engineering at St John’s College in the University of Oxford.

Teaching

4YP supervision

4th year Hydraulics in the Engineering department, Oxford, as lead tutor

1st year Fluid dynamics, Oxford, tutor

1st year Thermodynamics, Oxford, tutor

1st year Mathematics, Oxford, tutor

2nd year Thermofluids Laboratory, Oxford, demonstrator

2nd year CWM CFD Coursework Module, Oxford, demonstrator

Over the years, Dr Hao's research has spanned a broad range of turbomachinery applications, including gas turbines, compressors, steam turbines, and nuclear reactor coolant pumps. Recently, she has focused on numerical methods for gas turbines, specifically: (1) LES on turbine cooling, (2) conjugate heat transfer, (3) high bypass ratio turbofan modelling and design optimisation, (4) turbulence and heat transfer analysis. (5) Machine learning method in fluid dynamics.

Currently, Dr. Hao is engaged in cutting-edge research that integrates machine learning with fundamental fluid dynamics. She also continues research in collaboration with Rolls-Royce, developing solver design tools utilized by the aviation industry for both next-generation aircraft engine design and research.

Publications

Muting Hao and Luca di Mare, Heat transfer and budgets of turbulent heat flux in film cooling with fan-shaped and cylindrical holes, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Volume 217,(2023):124687.

Muting Hao and Luca di Mare. ”Reynolds stresses and turbulent heat fluxes in fan-shaped and cylindrical film cooling holes.” International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer 214 (2023) : 124324.

Muting Hao and Luca di Mare. ”Budgets of Reynolds stresses in film cooling with fan-shaped and cylindrical holes.” Physics of Fluids (2023).

Muting Hao and Luca di Mare. ”Scaling and similarity laws in three-dimensional wall jets.” Physics of Fluids (2023).

Muting Hao, Joshua Hope-collins, and Luca di Mare, ”Generation of turbulent inflow data from realistic approximations of the covariance tensor”, Physics of Fluids 34.11 (2022) : 115140.

Awards and Distinctions

St John’s Career Development Research Fellowship

UKRI Computing Insight UK 2023 Jacky Pallas Award

The Osborne Reynolds 2024 Best Poster Award