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Biography

Yu Hongru, is a native of Guangfen, Jiangxi Province. He graduated from Dalian Institute of Technology.

Yu spent his career as a researcher for the Mechanics Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He developed the first research on shock tubes in China and established a high-performance shock wave wind-tunnel and related transient state measuring system. He advanced plans and participated in the overcoming of major difficulties in shock tube flow and related transient state measuring. He also initiated the practice of wide application of shock wave wind-tunnel in the research and manufacture of spacecrafts; created a unique new way that saves money in the super sound velocity flow experiment in China; and facilitated the development of domestic shock tube cause. He also postulated the idea that produces intact explosion wave by using common shock tube.

Yu also suggested and adopted the new explosion and drive method to establish the explosion and drive shock wave wind-tunnel and initiated a way for improving the enthalpy value of test flow. Yu also researched the application of the principle and method of aerodynamics into the improvement and innovation of production techniques related to gas flow.

He was elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1991.