Recently, the 2019 list of National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars has been approved, Prof. Zhang Aman from College of Shipbuilding Engineering obtains access to this fund for his project on underwater explosion and vessels damage.

Zhang Aman, born in 1981; his ancestral home is in Wuning, Jiangxi Province; professor, Doctoral supervisor. His research interests are explosive blast dynamics, fluid-structure interaction dynamics, and bubble dynamics. He has directed about 40 research projects of the nation’s key special research and development plan and research programs of NSFC. He has established the bubble loading model of near-field underwater explosion, has found out the unity coupling transient fluid-solid model of underwater explosion and its computing method, has discovered the mechanism and law of damage for structure in near-field underwater explosion, and his research findings have been applied to assess and design the antiknock quality and impact resistance of many new large ships and vessels in the nation.

He has won the first Scientific Exploration Award, one 2^nd prize of National Technological Invention Award, one 2^nd prize of National S&T Progress Award, one 2^nd prize of National Teaching Award, three 1^st prizes and four 2^nd prizes of provincial or ministerial-leveled awards. He has published about 100 SCI-indexed academic papers inJournal of Fluid Mechanics,Journal of Physical Review Fluids,Journal of Physics of Fluids,Journal of Computational Physics, andjournal of CMAME. His papers have been cited for more than 2000 times in the last five years, and 7 of them are most cited ESI papers. He has applied for about 20 patents for invitation, has authorized 3 monographs and 1 Navy standard monograph. He serves as deputy director of the Ship Mechanics Academic Committee of CSNAME, deputy editor of the SCI-indexed journalComputer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, member of editorial board ofApplied Ocean Research, , andTheoretical & Applied MechanicsLetters. He has been invited to deliver 10 academic reports during the last 5 years.

National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars is a special fund approved by the State Council in 1994, and it is administrated and managed by the National Natural Science Foundation. This fund subsidizes those prominent young scholars under 45 who have made outstanding achievements to choose independently their research areas and carry out their innovative research, with an aim to promote the growth of young science and technology talents, to attract overseas talents, and to cultivate a batch of excellent academic leads to enter the world frontier in science and technology. The “Distinguished Young Scholars” fund receives and deals with the applicants once every year. The review process is quite strict and its average subsidizing rate does not exceed 10%. For more than 20 years, the “Distinguished Young Scholars” fund has been the funding project for high-level young scientific and technological talents, and a number of “Distinguished Young Scholars” are selected as academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering. This fund is an important platform for the growth of excellent young and middle-aged scholars.

In 2019, the National Natural Science Foundation has increased the number of funding projects to 300, each project is to be subsidized with 4 million Yuan (the total fund, 280 million Yuan for each project onmathematics or management science), with a period of 5 years.