Professor Shuisheng He

School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering

School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering

Professor of Thermofluids

Course Director: Nuclear Engineering Programme

Shuisheng He
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s.he@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 2227756
Sir Frederick Mappin Building

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Professor Shuisheng He
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Sir Frederick Mappin Building
Mappin Street
Sheffield
S1 3JD
Profile

Professor He graduated from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in China with a BSc and MSc degree in thermal power engineering.

He then pursued his doctoral research in the Nuclear Engineering Research Group at the University of Manchester where he received his PhD in 1992.

Following six years post-doctoral research in Manchester, he joined British Energy’s reactor thermal hydraulics team, where he served as an analyst for over three years.

He returned to academic life in 2002 as a lecturer and later a reader at Robert Gordon University, and moved to the University of Aberdeen in 2005 as a senior lecturer and then a reader in 2008. He joined the University of Sheffield as a chair in thermofluids in March 2011.

Shuisheng is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers

Research interests

Shuisheng conducts research in the field of fluid mechanics and heat transfer combining computational fluid dynamics (CFD) with experimental studies. His current research focuses on nuclear reactor thermal hydraulics and fundamental study in turbulence, transition and drag reduction.

Publications

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Research group

Heat, Flow and Turbulence Research Group (HeFT)

Grants

Current projects

  • EPSRC (EP/T026685/1), CCP for nuclear thermal hydraulics - supporting next generation civil nuclear reactors (CCP NTH), 2020 – 2025, £215k, S He (PI), Hector Iacovides (Manchester), Charles Moulinec (STFC) and Mike Bluck (Imperial).
  • EUROPEAN COMMISSION - H2020, Development of a small modular reactor cooled by supercritical water (ECC-SMART), 2020-2024, €196k, S He (Sheffield PI). This is a consortium involving some 20 organisations.
  • EPSRC (EP/T002417/1) Mixing of helium with air in reactor cavities following a pipe break in HTGRs - High fidelity and engineering CFD model development and validation, 2019-2022, £362k. S He (PI), C Moulinec (STFC). US collaborators: M. Kawaji (US PI), H. Bindra, R.R. Schultz, D.M., McEligot, K. Chen and L Lommers. 
  • EPSRC (EP/T002395/1) Liquid metal-cooled fast reactor instrumentation technology development - CFD model development and validation, 2019-2022, £362k, S He (PI), C Moulinec (STFC). US Collaborators: M. Anderson (US PI) and M Weathered.
  • BEIS (Dept. for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategies) (TRN 1210/09/2016(3) & TRN 1659/10/2018) R&D on Digital Reactor Design – Thermal Hydraulics (Phases 1 & 2), 2019-2021, £833k (Part of a consortium of total value of £5M, managed by Frazer-Nash Consultancy), S He (Sheffield PI).
  • EDF Energy (REF 4840550270), Consultancy on 3D Thermal modelling for dropped nuclear fuel, 2018-2020, £70k, S He
  • EDF Energy, Development of CFD methodology for fuel route thermal hydraulics analysis (dropped fuel), 2016-2020, £49k (PhD Studentship), S He
  • EDF Energy, Computational Study of Flow and Heat Transfer relevant to Nuclear Reactor Applications, 2016-2020, £66k (PhD Studentship), S He
  • EPSRC (EP/M018733/1) Grace time, 2015-2020, £681k, Walker (PI, Imperial), Issa, Bluck, Fairweather, Hewitt, He. 

Recently completed  projects

  • Thermal hydraulics for boiling and passive systems, EPSRC, £797,147, 2012-2014, CoI, with Simon Walker (Imperial, PI) and Michael Fairweather (Leeds).
  • Fundamental study of migration of supercritical carbon dioxide in porous media under conditions of saline aquifers, ESPRC, £470,805, 2011-2014, PI, with Bruce Yardley (Leeds) and Dubravka Pokrajac, (Aberdeen).
  • Turbulence and wall shear stress in unsteady internal flows with rough surfaces, EPSRC, £342,737, 2010-2013, PI, with Tom O'Donoghue & Dubravka Pokrajac (Aberdeen) and Alan Vardy (Dundee).
  • CFD investigation of AGR Cross-Flows for Hartlepool, EDF Energy, £74,439, 2011-2013, PI.
  • Enhancement of heat transfer due to cross flow - Investigation of discrepancy between measured and calculated brick temperatures, EDF Energy, £60,000, 2009-2011, (PI)
  • Advice in the field of thermal hydraulics, British Energy, £2,900, 2009, (PI)
  • Development of a specialised downhole pumping system for the extension of the life of gas wells, Knowledge Transfer Partnership, £112,000, 2008-2010, (CI)
  • ITI Energy: Resonance enhanced drilling, £806,486, 2008-2009, (CI)
  • TelepathTM - a new non-invasive approach to locating leaks in subsea umbilicals, Knowledge Transfer Partnership project with Brinker Technology, £112,000, 2008-2010, (CI)
  • Development of a novel and innovative multiphase flow meter for in line measurement of oil and gas flows, Knowledge Transfer Partnership, £100,144, 2007-2009, (PI)
  • Study of fluid flow and heat transfer in mini/micro channels, The Royal Society, £12,000, 2007-2009, (PI)
  • Integrated infrastructural initiative hydralab III - 'Unsteady friction in pipes and ducts', EC Framework-6, Funding for access to facilities, 2007-2008, (CI)
  • Dependence of transient pipe fiction on turbulence dynamics, EPSRC, £153,678, 2006-2008, (PI)
  • Design and development of an abrasive water jet cutting system, Knowledge Transfer Partnership, £100,144, 2005-2007, (PI)
  • Modelling of heat transfer to fluids at supercritical pressure, EPSRC, £125,447, 2003-2006
  • Computational and experimental studies of unsteady, rough-walled channels flow, Northern Research Partnership and Webber Fund, £60,000, 2007-2010