Following the completion of his Master of Science in Power Engineering at Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Professor Qi WEI spent four years working in Jiangsu University of Science and Technology.Subsequent to this he obtained his PhD at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He has worked in Jiangsu University until 2004. He then works as a professor at the College of Energy, at Soochow University. To date, Professor Qi WEI has published over 50 scientific papers with many appearing in leading journals.

Main Research Areas:

1. Fluid flow and Convective heat transfer

2. Refrigeration and air conditioning equipment

Representative Papers:

1. Variational bounds on energy dissipation in an incompressible channel flow with uniform injection and suction，

Acta Mechanica, Vol.159, No.1-4, 2002.

2. Bounds on natural convective heat transfer in a porous layer with fixed heat flux,

Int. Comm. in Heat Mass Transfer, 34(2007) 456-463.

3. An autonomous system for thermal convection of viscoelastic fluids in a porous layer using a thermal nonequilibrium model,Frontiers of Energy and Power Engineering in China, Vol.4, No.4, 507-516,2010