Yuwen Zhang is a Chinese American professor of mechanical engineering who is well known for his contributions to phase change heat transfer.

Yuwen Zhang was born in 1964 in Xiaoyi, Shanxi, China and spent his early life there until 1981 when he graduated from Chengguan High School and was admitted to college.

Yuwen Zhang's research area is in the field of heat and mass transfer with applications in nanomanufacturing, thermal management, and energy storage and conversion.

[10] He also investigated the mechanism of heat transfer enhancement in nanofluids, which are stable colloidal suspensions of solid nanomaterials with sizes typically on the order of 1-100 nm in the base fluid, via molecular dynamics (MD) simulations.

[11] Thermal management and temperature uniformity improvement of Li-ion batteries using external and internal cooling methods were also systematically studied by utilizing pin fin heat-sinks and metal/non-metal foams, as well as using electrolyte flow inside the embedded microchannels in the porous electrodes as a novel internal cooling technique.