Assistant Professor

CAO XIAOLING

Senior Engineer

Email: xlcao@swjtu.edu.cn

Office: Room 210, Building B, Jiuli Campus


BIO

Education

PhD, Southwest Jiaotong University, Heating Gas Ventilation & Air Conditioning (2019)

M.A., Southwest Jiaotong University, Heating Gas Ventilation & Air Conditioning (2010)

B.S., Southwest Jiaotong University, Building Environment and Equipment Engineering (20096)


Employment

Academic Appointments

Senior Engineer, School of Mechanical engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, China (2019-present)

Engineer, School of Mechanical engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, China (2013-2019)

Assistant Engineer, School of Mechanical engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, China (2010-2013)


Research Interests

Latent thermal energy storage & thermal management in buildings, Building Energy Conservation and Renewable Energy Application, Thermal environment control for underground space

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Principal Publications of the Last Five Years

Xiaoling Cao, Yanping Yuan(*), Bo Xiang, Liangliang Sun, Zhang Xingxing, Numerical investigation on optimal number of longitudinal fins in horizontal annular phase change unit at different wall temperatures , Energy and Buildings, 2018, 158: 384-392.

Xiaoling Cao, Yanping Yuan(*), Bo Xiang, FariborzHaghighat, Effect of natural convection on melting performance of eccentric horizontal shell and tube latent heat storage unit, Sustainable Cities and Society, 2018, 38: 571-581.

Xiaoling Cao, Yanping Yuan(*), Liangliang Sun, Bo Lei, Nanyang Yu, Restoration performance of vertical ground heat exchanger with various intermittent ratios, Geothermics, 2015, 54(1): 115-121.

Li Yang, Xiaoling Cao(*), Nan Zhang, Bo Xiang,Zhaoli Zhang, Bin Qian, Thermal reliability of typical fatty acids as phase change materials based on 10,000 accelerated thermal cycles, Sustainable Cities and Society, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2018.12.008.

Cao Xiaoling; Zhang nan; Yuan Yanping*; Luo Xiaolong; Thermal performance of triplex-tube latent heat storage exchanger: simultaneous heat storage and hot water supply via condensation heat recovery, Renewable energy,2020,157: 616-625.

Wang Jing; Cao Xiaoling*; Yuan Yanping; Leng Ziyu; Sun Yafen; Feasibility study on temperature control with phase change material in intensive heat-releasing space during emergency power failure: A case analysis of information system room, Energy and Buildings, 2021, 230(110482).

Selected Awards and Honors

First Prize of Science and technology progress of Sichuan Province, 2015


RESEARCH

Current Research

Research on Non-ideal Phase Change Behavior and Thermal Control Performance of latent thermal energy storage system in buidings

Research Group

Dr. Cao is a member of Built Environment and Energy Efficient Utilization Team Sichuan Youth Science and Technology Innovation Group.


TEACHING

Primary Teaching areas

Heat Transfer

Fluid Mechanics

Thermodynamics

Energy Conservation

Current Courses

Thermodynamics & Heat Transfer experiment

HVAC experiment