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Yidong Xia, Ph.D.

Computational Scientist

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Biography:

Dr. Yidong Xia is a senior staff scientist specializing in computational modeling and simulation for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Idaho National Laboratory's (INL) Energy and Environment Science and Technology (EES&T) Directorate. At INL, Dr. Xia's research and leadership experiences have been in the areas of environmental subsurface science, bioenergy technologies, high-performance scientific computing, nuclear energy, and geothermal energy. Dr. Xia's technical expertise spans several fields, including computational fluid dynamics and heat transfer, computational particle mechanics, computational chemistry, nuclear material and thermal hydraulics, nano/micro-computed tomography (nano/micro-CT), and image-based machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) for material characterization. Dr. Xia serves as a principal investigator (PI) or co-PI on multiple research projects and coordinates the efforts of multiple national laboratories and universities. Dr. Xia has served as PI on the INL-partner project “Multi-Scale Fluid-Solid Interactions in Architected and Natural Materials" (MUSE), an Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) supported by DOE Office of Science Basic Energy Sciences Program. Dr. Xia has also been leading the Material Handling Task in the DOE Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) Feedstock-Conversion Interface Consortium (FCIC) project. Dr. Xia obtained his Ph.D. degree in Aerospace Engineering with a Minor in General Mathematics at North Carolina State University.

Education:

​Ph.D., Aerospace Engineering - North Carolina State University

M.E., Fluid Mechanics - Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics

B.E., Aircraft Design and Engineering -  Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Affiliations:

​Senior Staff Scientist, Energy and Environment Science & Technology Directorate, INL

Adjunct Professor, Civil Engineering, Clemson University


Publications:
Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals

Ahmed Hamed, Yidong Xia, Nepu Saha, Jordan Klinger, David N Lanning and Jim Dooley, “Flowability of Crumbler rotary shear size-reduced granular biomass: An experiment-informed modeling study on the angle of repose." Frontiers in Energy Research, section Bioenergy and Biofuels 10 (2022). https://doi.org/10.3389/fenrg.2022.859248 


Meagan Crowley, Hariswaran Sitaraman, Jordan Lee Klinger, Francois Usseglio-Viretta, Nicholas E. Thornburg, Nicholas Brunhart-Lupo, M Brennan Pecha, James H Dooley, Yidong Xia and Peter N Ciesielski, “Measurement of Transport Properties of Woody Biomass Feedstock Particles Before and After Fast Pyrolysis by Numerical Analysis of X-Ray Tomographic Reconstructions." Frontiers in Energy Research, section Bioenergy and Biofuels 10 (2022). https://doi.org/10.3389/fenrg.2022.850630 


Yidong Xia, Jordan Klinger, Tiasha Bhattacharjee, Vicki Thomson, “The elastoplastic flexural behavior of corn stalks." Biosystems Engineering 216 (2022): 218-228. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2022.02.016 


Feiyang Chen, Yidong Xia, Jordan Klinger, Qiushi Chen, “A set of hysteretic nonlinear contact models for DEM: Theory, formulation, and application for lignocellulosic biomass." Powder Technology 397 (2022): 117100. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.powtec.2021.117100 


Qi Rao, Yidong Xia, Jiaoyan Li, Milind Deo, Zhen Li, “Flow reduction of hydrocarbon liquid in silica nanochannel: Insight from many-body dissipative particle dynamics simulations." Journal of Molecular Liquids 344 (2021): 117673. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molliq.2021.117673 


Quan Sun, Yidong Xia, Jordan Klinger, Robert Seifert, Joshua Kane, Vicki Thompson, Qiushi Chen, “X-ray computer tomography-based porosity analysis: Algorithms and application for porous woody biomass." Powder Technology 388 (2021): 496-504. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.powtec.2021.05.006 


Ziwei Chen, Juan H. Leal, Carrie E. Hartford, John W. Carson, Bryon S. Donohoe, David A. Craig, Yidong Xia, Richard C. Daniel, Oyelayo O. Ajayi, and Troy A. Semelsberger. “Flow Behavior Characterization of Biomass Feedstocks." Powder Technology 387 (2021): 156-180. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.powtec.2021.04.004 


Yidong Xia, Feiyang Chen, Jordan Klinger, Joshua Kane, Tiasha Bhattacharjee, Robert Seifert, Oyelayo O. Ajayi, Qiushi Chen, “Assessment of a tomography-informed polyhedral discrete element modeling approach for complex-shaped granular woody biomass in stress consolidation." Biosystems Engineering, 205 (2021): 187-211. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2021.03.007 


Qi Rao, Yidong Xia, Jiaoyan Li, Joshua McConnell, James Sutherland, Zhen Li, “A modified many-body dissipative particle dynamics model: theory, calibration, and application for mesoscopic simulation of hydrocarbon and water." Molecular Simulation 47, No. 4 (2021): 363-375. https://doi.org/10.1080/08927022.2021.1876233 


Yuan Guo, Qiushi Chen, Yidong Xia, Jordan Klinger, Vicki Thompson, “A nonlinear elasto-plastic bond model for the discrete element modeling of woody biomass particles." Powder Technology 385 (2021): 557-571. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.powtec.2021.03.008 


Yuan Guo, Qiushi Chen, Yidong Xia, Tyler Westover, Sandra Eksioglu, Mohammad Roni, “Discrete element modeling of switchgrass particles under compression and rotational shear."  Biomass & Bioenergy 141 (2020): 105649. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biombioe.2020.105649


Jiaoyan Li, Qi Rao, Yidong Xia, Michael Hoepfner, Milind Deo, “Confinement-mediated phase behavior of hydrocarbon fluids: Insights from Monte Carlo simulations." Langmuir 36, No. 26 (2020): 7277–7288. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.0c00652


Wencheng Jin, Jonathan Stickel, Yidong Xia,  Jordan Klinger, “A review of computational models for the flow of milled biomass II: Continuum-mechanics models," ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 8, No. 16 (2020): 6157-6172. https://doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.0c00412.


Yidong Xia, Jonathan Stickel, Wencheng Jin,  Jordan Klinger, “A review of computational models for the flow of milled biomass I: Discrete-particle models," ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 8, No. 16 (2020): 6142-6156. https://doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.0c00402.


Yidong Xia, Ansel Blumers, Zhen Li, Lixiang Luo, Yu-Hang Tang, Joshua Kane, Hai Huang, Matthew Andrew, Milind Deo, Jan Goral, “A GPU-accelerated package for simulation of flow in nanoporous source rocks with many-body dissipative particle dynamics.'' Computer Physics Communications 247 (2020): 106874. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2019.106874 


Yidong Xia, Zhengshou Lai, Tyler Westover, Jordan Klinger, Hai Huang, Qiushi Chen, “Discrete element modeling of deformable pinewood chips in cyclic loading test”, Powder Technology, Vol 345, 1 March 2019, Pages 1-14.


Xiaodong Liu, Yidong Xia, Hong Luo, “A reconstructed discontinuous Galerkin method for compressible turbulent flows on 3D curved grids”, Computers & Fluids, Volume 160, 4 January 2018, Pages 26-41.

 

Xiaodong Liu, Lijun Xuan, Yidong Xia, Hong Luo, “A reconstructed discontinuous Galerkin method for the compressible Navier-Stokes equations on three-dimensional hybrid grids”, Computers & Fluids, Volume 152, 18 July 2017, Pages 217-230.

 

Yidong Xia, Jan Goral, Hai Huang, Ilija Miskovic, Paul Meakin, and Milind Deo. "Many-body dissipative particle dynamics modeling of fluid flow in fine-grained nanoporous shales", Physics of Fluids 29, No. 5 (2017): 056601.

 

Eric M. Leonard, Benjamin J.C. Laabs, Mitchell A. Plummer, Ryan K. Kroner, Keith A. Brugger, Vivian M. Spiess, Kurt A. Refsnider, Yidong Xia, Marc W. Caffee. “Late Pleistocene glaciation and deglaciation in the Crestone Peaks area, Colorado Sangre de Cristo Mountains, USA – chronology and paleoclimate”, Quaternary Science Reviews, 158:127-144, February 2017.

 

Yidong Xia, Mitch Plummer, Robert Podgorney, and Ahmad Ghassemi. “Design, modeling, and evaluation of a doublet heat extraction model in enhanced geothermal systems”, Renewable Energy, 105: 232-247, 2017.

 

Xiaodong Liu, Yidong Xia, Hong Luo, and Lijun Xuan. “A comparative study of Rosenbrock-type and implicit Runge-Kutta time integration for discontinuous Galerkin method for unsteady 3D compressible Navier-Stokes equations”, Communications in Computational Physics, 20 (4): 1016-1044, 2016.

 

Mark A. Christon, Jozsef Bakozi, Balu Nadiga, Markus Berndt, Marianne M. Francois, Alan K. Stagg. Yidong Xia, and Hong Luo. “A hybrid incremental projection method for thermal-hydraulics applications”, Journal of Computational Physics, 317: 382-404, 2016.

 

Yidong Xia, Robert Podgorney, and Hai Huang. “Assessment of a hybrid continuous / discontinuous Galerkin finite element code for geothermal reservoir simulations”, Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering, 2016. DOI: 10.1007/s00603-016-0951-y.

 

Yidong Xia, Chuanjin Wang, Hong Luo, Mark Christon, and Jozsef Bakosi. “Assessment of a hybrid finite element and finite volume code for turbulent incompressible flows”, Journal of Computational Physics, 307: 653-669, 2016.

 

Yidong Xia, Xiaodong Liu, Hong Luo, and Robert Nourgaliev. “A third-order implicit discontinuous Galerkin method based on a Hermite WENO reconstruction for time-accurate solution of the compressible Navier–Stokes equations”, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, 79(8): 416-435, 2015.

 

Yidong Xia, Jialin Lou, Hong Luo, Jack Edwards, and Frank Mueller. “OpenACC acceleration of an unstructured CFD solver based on a reconstructed discontinuous Galerkin method for compressible flows”, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, 78 (3): 123–139, 2015.

 

Yidong Xia, Hong Luo, Megan Frisbey, and Robert Nourgaliev. “A set of parallel, implicit methods for a reconstructed discontinuous Galerkin method for compressible flows on 3D hybrid grids”, Computers & Fluids, 98:134–151, 2014.

 

Yidong Xia, Hong Luo, and Robert Nourgaliev. “An implicit Hermite WENO reconstruction-based discontinuous Galerkin method on tetrahedral grids”, Computers & Fluids, 96:406–421, 2014.

 

Hong Luo, Yidong Xia, Seth Spiegel, Robert Nourgaliev, and Zonglin Jiang. “A reconstructed discontinuous Galerkin method based on a hierarchical WENO reconstruction for compressible flows on tetrahedral grids”, Journal of Computational Physics, 236:477–492, 2013.

 

Hong Luo, Yidong Xia, Shujie Li, and Robert Nourgaliev. “A Hermite WENO reconstruction-based discontinuous Galerkin method for the Euler equations on tetrahedral grids”. Journal of Computational Physics, 231(16): 5489–5503, 2012.

 

Yidong Xia, Yizhao Wu, Hongqiang Lu, and Jiangyong Song. “Parallel computation of a high-order discontinuous Galerkin method on unstructured grid”, ACTA AERODYNAMICA SINICA, 29(05): 537–541, 2011. (In Chinese)


Book Chapter
Yidong Xia, Megan Frisbey, and Hong Luo. “A Hierarchical WENO Reconstructed Discontinuous Galerkin Method for Computing Shock Waves”, In 29th International Symposium on Shock Waves 2 (pp. 951-956). Springer International Publishing, 2015.


Conference Proceedings
Mitch Plummer, Yidong Xia, Robert Podgorney, Earl Mattson, Hai Huang and Ahmad Ghassemi. “Primary Constraints on the Design of an Enhanced Geothermal System Reservoir”, In 50th US Rock Mechanics / Geomechanics Symposium, Houston, Texas, USA, June 2016.

 

Yidong Xia, Mitch Plummer, Robert Podgorney, and Ahmad Ghassemi. “An Assessment of Some Design Constraints on Heat Production of a 3D Conceptual EGS Model Using an Open-Source Geothermal Reservoir Simulation Code”, In 41st Stanford Geothermal Workshop, Stanford, California, USA, February 2016.

 

Jialin Lou, Yidong Xia, Lixiang Luo, Hong Luo, Jack Edwards, and Frank Mueller. “OpenACC- based GPU acceleration of an implicit reconstructed discontinuous Galerkin method for compressible flows on 3D unstructured grids”, In 54th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, San Diego, California, USA, No. 2016-1815, January 2016.

 

Yidong Xia and Hai Huang. “Non-oscillatory thermal front tracking based on a reconstructed discontinuous Galerkin method for geothermal reservoir simulation”, In 5th International Conference on Coupled Thermo–Hydro–Mechanical–Chemical (THMC) Processes in Geosystems: Petroleum and Geothermal Reservoir Geomechanics and Energy Resource Extraction, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, February 2015.

 

Yidong Xia, Robert Podgorney, and Hai Huang. “Assessment of a finite element geothermal reservoir simulator on benchmark problems”, In 5th International Conference on Coupled Thermo–Hydro–Mechanical–Chemical (THMC) Processes in Geosystems: Petroleum and Geothermal Reservoir Geomechanics and Energy Resource Extraction, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, February 2015.

 

Davood Bahrami, George Danko, Pengcheng Fu, Bin Guo, Robert Podgorney, Mark White, and Yidong Xia. “Poroelastic and Self-Propped Single Fracture THM Models for EGS Studies”. In 40th Stanford Geothermal Workshop, Stanford, California, USA, volume SGP-TR-204, January 2015.

 

Xiaodong Liu, Lijun Xuan, Hong Luo, and Yidong Xia. “A reconstructed discontinuous Galerkin method for the compressible Navier-Stokes equations on hybrid grids”, In 53rd AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Kissimmee, Florida, USA, No. 2015-0575, January 2015.

 

Jialin Lou, Yidong Xia, Lixiang Luo, Hong Luo, Jack Edwards, and Frank Mueller. “OpenACC- based GPU acceleration of a p-multigrid discontinuous Galerkin method for compressible flows on 3D unstructured grids”, In 53rd AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Kissimmee, Florida, USA, No. 2015-0822, January 2015.

 

Yidong Xia, Jialin Lou, Lixiang Luo, Hong Luo, Jack Edwards, and Frank Mueller. “On the multi-GPU computing of a reconstructed discontinuous Galerkin method for compressible flows on 3D hybrid grids”, In 7th AIAA Theoretical Fluid Mechanics Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, No. 2014-3081, June 2014.

 

Yidong Xia, Hong Luo, Chuanjin Wang, and Robert Nourgaliev. “An implicit, reconstructed discontinuous Galerkin method for the unsteady compressible Navier-Stokes equations on 3D hybrid grids”, In 7th AIAA Theoretical Fluid Mechanics Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, No. 2014-3220, June 2014.

 

Lijun Xuan, Yidong Xia, and Hong Luo. “A reconstructed discontinuous Galerkin method based on a gas kinetic scheme for compressible flows on arbitrary grids”, In 7th AIAA Theoretical Fluid Mechanics Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, AIAA Paper No. 2014-3219, June 2014.

 

Yidong Xia, Xiaodong Liu, and Hong Luo. “A finite volume method based on WENO reconstruction for compressible flows on hybrid grids”, In 52nd AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, National Harbor, Maryland, USA, No. 2014-0939, January 2014.

 

Yidong Xia, Hong Luo, Lixiang Luo, Jack Edwards, Jialin Lou, and Frank Mueller. “OpenACC-based GPU acceleration of a 3-D unstructured discontinuous Galerkin method”, In 52nd AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, National Harbor, Maryland, USA, No. 2014-1129, January 2014.

 

Yidong Xia, Hong Luo, Chuanjin Wang, and Robert Nourgaliev. “Implicit large eddy simulation of turbulent flows by a reconstructed discontinuous Galerkin method”, In 52nd AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, National Harbor, Maryland, USA, No. 2014-0224, January 2014.

 

Yidong Xia, Megan Frisbey, and Hong Luo. “A reconstructed discontinuous Galerkin method based on a hierarchical WENO reconstruction for computing shock waves on hybrid grids”, In 21st AIAA Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference, San Diego, California, USA, No. 2013-3063, June 2013.

 

Yidong Xia, Hong Luo, Seth Spiegel, Megan Frisbey, and Robert Nourgaliev. “A parallel, implicit reconstructed discontinuous Galerkin method for the compressible flows on 3D arbitrary grids”, In 21st AIAA Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference, San Diego, California, USA, No. 2013-3062, June 2013.

 

Yidong Xia, Hong Luo, and Robert Nourgaliev. “An implicit reconstructed discontinuous Galerkin method based on automatic differentiation for the compressible flows on tetrahedral grids”, In 51st AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Grapevine (Dallas/Ft. Worth Region), Texas, USA, No. 2013-0687, January 2013.

 

Yidong Xia, Megan Frisbey, Hong Luo, and Robert Nourgaliev. “A WENO reconstruction-based discontinuous Galerkin method for compressible flows on hybrid grids”, In 51st AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Grapevine (Dallas/Ft. Worth Region), Texas, USA, No. 2013-0516, January 2013.

 

Yidong Xia, Megan Frisbey, and Hong Luo. “A hierarchical WENO reconstructed discontinuous Galerkin method for computing shock waves”, In 29th International Symposium on Shock Waves (ISSW29), Madison, Wisconsin, USA, July 2013.

 

Hong Luo, Yidong Xia, and Megan Frisbey. “A reconstructed discontinuous Galerkin method based on a hierarchical WENO reconstruction on hybrid grids”, In 12th U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics (USNCCM12), Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. U.S. Association for Computational Mechanics, July 2013.

 

Hong Luo, Yidong Xia, Seth Spiegel, and Robert Nourgaliev. “A hierarchical Hermite WENO reconstruction based discontinuous Galerkin method for compressible flows on tetrahedral grids”, In 42nd AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference and Exhibit, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, No. 2012-2838, Jane 2012.

 

Yidong Xia, Hong Luo, and Robert Nourgaliev. “An implicit method for a reconstructed discontinuous Galerkin method on tetrahedron grids”, In 42nd AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference and Exhibit, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, No. 2012-2834, Jane 2012.

 

Yidong Xia and Robert Nourgaliev. “An implicit Hermite WENO reconstruction-based discontinuous Galerkin method on tetrahedral grids”, In 7th International Conference of Computational Fluid Dynamics, Big Island, Hawaii, USA, July 2012.

 

Hong Luo, Shujie Li, Yidong Xia, Robert Nourgaliev, and Chunpei Cai. “A Hermite WENO reconstruction based discontinuous Galerkin method for the Euler equations on tetrahedral grids”, In 50th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Nashville, Tennessee, USA, No. 2012-461, January 2012.

 

Hong Luo, Yidong Xia, and Robert Nourgaliev. “A class of reconstructed discontinuous Galerkin methods in computational fluid dynamics”, In International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C2011), Brazil, May 2011.

 

Hong Luo, Yidong Xia, Robert Nourgaliev, and Chunpei Cai. “A class of reconstructed discontinuous Galerkin methods for compressible flows on arbitrary grids”, In 49th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Orlando, Florida, USA, No. 2011-199, January 2011.

 


Technical Reports
Yidong Xia, Joshua Hansel, Ray A. Berry, David Andrs, Richard C. Martineau. “Preliminary Study on the Suitability of a Second-Order Reconstructed Discontinuous Galerkin Method for RELAP-7 Thermal-Hydraulic Modeling”. Technical Report INL/EXT-17-43108 (Revision 1), Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho, ID, United States, September 2017.

 

M.D. White, and et al. “Benchmark Problems of the Geothermal Technologies Office Code Comparison Study”. Technical Report PNNL-26016, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, November 2016.

 

Yidong Xia, David Andrs, Richard C. Martineau. “BIGHORN Computational Fluid Dynamics Theory, Methodology, and Code Verification & Validation Benchmark Problems”. Technical Report INL/EXT-16-39214, Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho, ID, United States, September 2016.

 

Jozsef Bakosi, Mark Christon, Lori Pritchett-Sheats, Hong Luo, Yidong Xia, and Robert Nourgaliev. Hydra-TH Verification, Validation and Thermal-Hydraulics Benchmark Problems. Technical Report CASL-U-2013-0209-000, Los Alamos National Laboratory, September 2013.

 

Mark Christon, Jozsef Bakosi, R Lowrie, Balasubramanya Nadiga, Yidong Xia, Hong Luo, and Alan Stagg. Hydra-TH User’s Manual. Technical Report LA-UR 12-23181, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 2011.

Presentations:



Awards:

Laboratory Director Award - Vision Award for Biomass 

Modeling and Flow Characterization Team

Idaho National Laboratory, 2020


Leadership of the Year

Energy and Environment Science & Technology (EES&T) Directorate

Idaho National Laboratory, 2020


Best Research Poster Award

“Nanoporous Flow Simulations on the Summit Supercomputer"

SC19: The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis. Denver, CO, Nov 17–22, 2019.


​Elsevier Reviewer Recognition, 2016

Research Interests:

​Bioenergy technologies

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)

Environmental Subsurface Science

​High Performance Scientific Computing

Geothermal Energy

Micro/Sub-micro Multiphase Fluid Flow

Nuclear Energy

Subsurface Sciences and Engineering

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