中国科学院大学工程科学学院教授。西安交通大学获得博士学位，两年日本京都大学做JSPS（日本学术振兴会）博士后，六年美国加州大学洛杉矶分校工作，2007年始为中国科学院大学教授、博导。长期从事磁约束核聚变堆关键部件液态包层及液态偏滤器研发及其关键热流科学问题研究，主要研究方向有：磁流体力学、多相流及传热、计算流体力学、实验流体力学、核聚变技术。主持国家自然科学基金面上项目、重点项目、杰青项目、重大仪器专项项目（自由申请类），科学院先导B专项子项目及科学院前沿重点项目，为科技部ITER专项“液态锂壁在未来聚变装置应用的基础研究”及“聚变堆液固复合构型偏滤器关键问题研究”项目首席科学家。

招生专业： 080103 -- 流体力学
招生方向： 磁流体力学、多相流体流动与传热、计算流体力学、实验流体力学

近几年主要发表学术论文

Zhang, J., Ni, M.-J., Magnaudet, J., Three-dimensiaonal dynamics of a pair of deformable bubbles rising initially in line. Part 2. Highly inertial regimes. J. Fluid Mech. 943 (2022) A10.

Chen, L., Smolentsev, S., Ni, M. J. (2022). Toward full simulations for a liquid metal blanket: part 2. Computations of MHD flows with volumetric heating for a PbLi blanket prototype at Ha∼ 10⁴ and Gr∼ 10¹². Nuclear Fusion, 62(2), 026042.

Zhao, S., Zhang, J., Ni, M. J. (2021). Boiling and evaporation model for liquid-gas flows: A sharp and conservative method based on the geometrical VOF approach. Journal of Computational Physics, 110908.

Zhang, J.,  Ni, M. J. (2021). A numerical study of a bubble pair rising side by side in external magnetic fields. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 926.

Jia, X., Yang, J. C., Zhang, J., Chen, L., Ni, M. J. (2021). Collision dynamics of binary liquid metal droplets under horizontal magnetic field. Physical Review Fluids, 6(10), 103702.

Zhang, J., Ni, M. J., Magnaudet, J. (2021). Three-dimensional dynamics of a pair of deformable bubbles rising initially in line. Part 1. Moderately inertial regimes. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 920.

Han, T. Y., Zhang, J., Tan, H., & Ni, M. J. (2021). A consistent and parallelized height function based scheme for applying contact angle to 3D volume-of-fluid simulations. Journal of Computational Physics, 433, 110190.

Chen, L., Pothérat, A., Ni, M. J., Moreau, R. (2021). Direct numerical simulation of quasi-two-dimensional MHD turbulent shear flows. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 915.

Jie Zhang, Ming-Jiu Ni, A numerical study of a bubble pair rising side by side in external magnetic fields, J. Fluid Mech. 926 (2021) A22.

Chen, L., Smolentsev, S., Ni, M. J. (2020). Toward full simulations for a liquid metal blanket: MHD flow computations for a PbLi blanket prototype at Ha∼ 10⁴. Nuclear Fusion, 60(7), 076003.

Yang, J. C., Qi, T. Y., Ren, D. W., Ni, M. J., Liu, B. Q., Hu, J. S., Li, J. G. (2020). Magnetohydrodynamic effects on liquid metal film flowing along an inclined plate relating to plasma facing components. Nuclear Fusion, 60(8), 086003.

Pan, Jun-Hua, Nian-Mei Zhang, Ming-Jiu Ni. "Instability and transition of a vertical ascension or fall of a free sphere affected by a vertical magnetic field." J. Fluid Mech. 859 (2019) 33-48.

Pan, Jun-Hua, Nian-Mei Zhang, Ming-Jiu Ni. "Wake structure of laminar flow past a sphere under the influence of a transverse magnetic field." J. Fluid Mech. 873 (2019) 151-173. 

Pan J H, Zhang N M, Ni M J. The wake structure and transition process of a flow past a sphere aected by a streamwise magnetic field. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2018, 842, 248-272.

Pan J H, Ni M J, Zhang N M. A consistent and conservative immersed boundary method for MHD flows and moving boundary problems. Journal of Computational Physics, 2018.

Zhang J, Ni M J. What happens to the vortex structures when the rising bubble transits from zigzag to spiral?. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2017, 828: 353-373.

Zhang J, Han T Y, Yang J C, Ni M J. On the spreading of impacting drops under the influence of a vertical magnetic field. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2016, 809.