Prof. Yanli Zhang

Yanli Zhang obtained her B.Eng., M.Eng., and Ph.D. degrees from Shenyang University of Technology in Shenyang in 1998, 2001, and 2006 respectively. From 2007 to 2008, she served as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Chungbuk National University (CBNU) in Korea. From 2018 to 2019, she worked as a Visiting Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Florida International University (FIU) in Miami, Florida, USA. Since 2013, Dr. Yanli Zhang has been a professor at the School of Electrical Engineering of Shenyang University of Technology. Currently, she is a committee member of the Electrical Engineering Theory and New Technology Special Committee of the China Electrotechnical Society. Her current research interests encompass the theory, numerical analysis methods, as well as the design, simulation, and optimization of power conversion and transmission equipment.
The main research interests are: Measurement and modeling of electromagnetic properties of ferromagnetic materials; Numerical simulation of electromagnetic field and multi-physics field; Design, simulation, and optimization of power conversion and transmission equipment.
Presentation: Regulation, measurement and modeling of magnetic properties of soft magnetic material and the fast computation method of electromagnetic field
Electrical steel sheets are crucial magnetic materials that constitute the magnetic circuit structure of power equipment, such as transformers. Their hysteresis and magnetostrictive properties have a profound impact on the loss and vibration performance of devices like transformers and motors. In addition, in order to develop iron core materials with lower costs and a better match between magnetic characteristics and the performance requirements of devices, magnetic powder cores have been attracting increasing attention. At the same time, as the complexity of the models and the nonlinearity of materials increase, improving the computational efficiency of electromagnetic fields becomes of great significance. In the presentation, the domain wall movement of electrical steel sheets is observed and modeled. The magnetic characteristics within a certain temperature range and under external stress are measured and estimated. Additionally, a microstructural model of magnetic powder cores is constructed based on the simulation data of the powder densification process. The effect of the regulation degree of inter-particle metallic insulation on the eddy current loss is studied. Finally, to reflect the physical characteristics of in-service electrical equipment in real-time through simulation, an adaptive model order reduction algorithm for three-dimensional nonlinear magnetic fields and a GPU-based parallel computation method are proposed.