Work Experience:

2019- Present: Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Depart. Civil Eng., Full Professor;

2010-2018: Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Depart. Civil Eng., Associate Professor;

2008-2010: Texas A&M University, Depart. Petroleum Eng., Postdoctoral Research Associate;

2007-2010: Shanghai University, Depart. Civil Eng, Associate Professor;

2005-2007: Shanghai Institute of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, Postdoctoral Research Associate;

1997-1999: China Coal Construction and Installation Engineering Group Co., Ltd., No.6 Engineering Department, Assistant engineer.

Education Background：

2002-2005: Ph.D., Solid Mechanics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University;

1999-2002: M.S., Engineering Mechanics, China University of Mining and Technology;

1993-1997: B.S., Civil Engineering, Heilongjiang Institute of Science & Technology.

1. Rock Mechanics

2. Constitutive model of rock and fracture simulation

3. Hydraulic fracture mechanics and numerical simulation

4. Multi-physical field coupling analysis

1. Editorial Board Member, Geomechanics and Geoengineering-An International Journal, 2024-Present.

2. Council Member, Chinese Society for Rock Mechanics and Engineering, 2016-2020.

1. National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), 12172225, Fracture-cavity connection mechanism with acidizing effect during acid-fracturing treatment of fractured-vuggy reservoir and its numerical simulation, 2022.01-2025. 12, PI

2. National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), 11772190, Dynamic unstable macro-meso fracturing mechanism for burst failure of unloaded rockmass, 2018.01-2021.12, PI

3. National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), 11172172, Mesofracturing mechanism and multiscale constitutive model of rock, 2012.01-2015.12, PI

4. National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), 50609013, Multiscale Mechanical model for brittle material based on virtual multidimensional internal bond, 2007.01-2007.12, PI

5. Plastic deformation characteristics of rock and its impact on fracture aperture under super-high closure stress. 2020.01-2021.12, PI

6. Numerical simulation of acidizing fracture in carbonate reservoir, 2020.11-2021.06., PI

7. Re-acid fracturing mechanism of carbonate reservoir and the assessment of stimulation, 2020.08-2020.12, PI

8. Pulsed fracture modeling and numerical simulation of carbonate reservoir, 2017.08-2018.10, PI

1. Tianci Zhu, Bing Zhao, Zhennan Zhang*. Quasi-3D fracture acidizing simulation based on discrete virtual bond method. Computers and Geotechnics, 2024, (Accepted on Jun 10, 2024; Now In-press)

2. Tianci Zhu, Zhennan Zhang*, Zhiyuan Liu, Na An, Xuanchun Wei. Simulation of hydraulic-mechanical-chemical coupled acid fracturing of rock with lattice bonds. Heliyon.2024,10: e26517.

3. Xuanchun Wei, Zhennan Zhang*. Elastoplastic discrete bond cell model for rock-like material with irreversible sliding interface. Computers and Geotechnics, 2023, 162: 105633.

4. Tianci Zhu, Zhennan Zhang*. Modeling of thermal- hydraulic- mechanical- chemical acid fracturing with discretized virtual internal bond. Geomechanics for Energy and the Environment. 2023, 35:100477.

5. Xuanchun Wei, Bing Zhao, Cheng Ji, Zihan Liu, Zhennan Zhang*. Elastoplastic augmented virtual internal bond modeling for rock: a fracture-plasticity combined constitutive model. International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics. 2023;47:1331–1348. 

6. Tianci Zhu, Xuanchun Wei, Zhennan Zhang*. Numerical simulation of hydraulic-mechanical-chemical field coupled acid fracturing in complex carbonate reservoir. Computers and Geotechnics, 2023, 156: 105277.

7. Sai Liu, Zhiyuan Liu*, Zhennan Zhang**. Numerical study on hydraulic fracture-cavity interaction in fractured-vuggy carbonate reservoir. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 2022, 213:110426.

8. Yuezong Yang, Zhennan Zhang*. Micro-fracture simulation of rock under unloading condition by grain-based discretized virtual internal bond method. International Journal of Applied Mechanics. 2022, 14(1): 2250001. 

9. Yujie Wang, Bing Zhao, Zhennan Zhang*. Numerical Simulation of Stress Reorientation around Wellbore in Production and Refracture Stimulation. Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements, 2021,133:165-176.

10. Yuezong Yang, Zhennan Zhang*. Surrounding rock effect on coal burst under unloading condition: a numerical study. Arabian Journal of Geosciences,2021,14:1742.

11. Sai Liu, Zhennan Zhang*, Zhongwei Huang. Three-Dimensional Hydraulic Fracture Simulation with Hydromechanical Coupled-Element Partition Method. International Journal of Geomechanics, 2021, 21(9): 04021162.

12. Zihan Liu, Zhennan Zhang*, Ahmad Ghassemi. Bedding plane-embedded augmented virtual internal bonds for fracture propagation simulation in shale. Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Letters, 2021,11(3):100253.

13. Yujie Wang, Zhennan Zhang*, Ahmad Ghassemi. Modeling of thermo-poroelasticity by using discretized virtual internal bond. Geothermics. 2021,91:102017.

14. Sai Liu, Zhennan Zhang*. Modeling rock fragmentation by coupling Voronoi diagram and discretized virtual internal bond. Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Letters, 2020,10(5):321-326.

15. Yujie Wang, Xinyong Li, Bing Zhao, Zhennan Zhang*. Numerical Simulation of Particle Plugging in Hydraulic Fracture by Element Partition Method. International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, 2020,44(14):1857-1879.

16. Yujie Wang, Xinyong Li, Bing Zhao, Zhennan Zhang*. 3D Numerical Simulation of Pulsed Fracture in Complex Fracture-cavitied Reservoir. Computers and Geotechnics, 2020,125: 103665.

17. Yuezong Yang, Zhennan Zhang*. Dynamic fracturing process of fissured rock under abrupt unloading condition: A numerical study, Engineering Fracture Mechanics,  2020, 231: 107025.

18. Yujie Wang, Zhennan Zhang*. Fully hydromechanical coupled hydraulic fracture simulation considering state transition of natural fracture. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 2020,190:107072.

19. Yujie Wang, Bing Zhao, Xiaobo He, Zhennan Zhang*.3D Pulsed fracture initiation and propagation around wellbore: a numerical study. Computers and Geotechnics,  2020, 119:103374.

20. Chunfang Li, Zhennan Zhang*. Modeling shale with consideration of bedding plane by cohesive finite element method. Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Letters, 2019,9(6):397-402.

21. Yuezong Yang, Zhiyuan Liu, Jianye Mou, Zhennan Zhang*. Quasi-brittle fracture simulation by using discretized virtual internal bond with a trilinear damage potential.Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics. 2019, 104:102343.

22. Zhiyuan Liu, Shujun Peng, Haiyang Zhao, Yudi Geng, Zhennan Zhang*. Numerical simulation of pulsed fracture in reservoir by using discretized virtual internal bond. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 2019, 181:106197.

23. Yujie Wang, Zhennan Zhang*. Numerical simulation of creep fracture with internal time-dependent hyperelastic-Kelvin cohesive bonds. Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 2019, 213: 206-222. 

24. Shujun Peng, Zhennan Zhang*, Jianye Mou, Bing Zhao, Zhiyuan Liu, Jiading Wang. Fully coupled hydraulic fracture simulation using the improved element partition method. International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, 2019,43:441-460.

25. Peng SJ, Zhang ZN*, Mou JY, Zhao B, Liu ZY, Ghassemi A. Hydraulic fracture simulation with hydro-mechanical coupled discretized virtual internal bond. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 2018, 169:504-517.

26. Ding JF, Zhang ZN*, Yang SQ, Ma ZG, Mou JY. Numerical simulation of thermal-mechanical induced fracture with discretized virtual internal bond. Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 2018, 189: 377-389.

27. Peng SJ, Zhang ZN*, Li CF, He GF, Miao GQ. Simulation of water flow in fractured porous medium by using discretized virtual internal bond. Journal of Hydrology, 2017, 555: 851-868.

28. Ding JF, Zhang ZN*, Yang FP, Zhao YX, Ge XR. Plastic fracture simulation by using discretized virtual internal bond. Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 2017,178:169-183.

29. Chen YX, Zhang ZN*. Dynamic Fracture simulation by using a discretized virtual internal bond with a regular hexagon cell. International Journal of Computational Methods, 2017, 14(6): 1750066.

30. Zhang ZN, Wang DY, Ge XR, Zheng H. Three dimensional element partition method for fracture simulation. International Journal of Geomechanics (ASCE), 2016, 16(3): 04015074.

31. Zhang ZN*, Peng SJ, Ghassemi A, Ge XR. Simulation of Complex Hydraulic Fracture Generation in Reservoir Stimulation. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 2016, 146: 272-285.

32. Ding JF, Zhang ZN*, Ge XR. Lattice structure: scaling of strain related energy density. Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics, 2015, 79: 84-90.

33. Zhang ZN*, Yao Y, Mao XB. Modeling wave propagation induced fracture in rock with correlated lattice bond cell. International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences, 2015,78: 262-270.

34. Zhang ZN*, Ding JF, Ghassemi A, Ge XR. A hyperelastic-bilinear potential for lattice model with fracture energy conservation. Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 2015, 142:220-235.

35. Zhang ZN*, Chen YX. A constrained intrinsic cohesive finite element method with little stiffness reduction for fracture simulation. Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 2015, 136: 213-225.

36. Zhang ZN*, Chen YX. Modeling nonlinear elastic solid with correlated lattice bond cell for dynamic fracture simulation. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 2014, 279:325-347.

37. Zhang ZN*, Chen YX*, Zheng H. A modified Stillinger-Weber potential-based hyperelastic constitutive model for nonlinear elasticity. International Journal of Solids and Structures, 2014, 51(7-8): 1542-1554.

38. Zhang ZN. Discretized virtual internal bond model for nonlinear elasticity. International Journal of Solids and Structures. 2013, 50(22-23):3618-3625.

39. Zhang ZN*, Zheng H, Ge XR. Triangular element partition method with consideration of crack tip. Sci China Tech Sci, 2013, 56(8):2081-2088.

40. Wang DY, Zhang ZN*, Zheng H, Ge XR. Propagation of interactive parallel flat elliptical cracks inclined to shear stress. Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics, 2013, 63-64: 18-31.

41. Zhang ZN*, Wang DY, Ge XR. A novel triangular finite element partition method for fracture simulation without enrichment of interpolation. International Journal of Computational Methods, 2013,10(4):1350015.

42. Zhang ZN*, Wang DY, Zheng H, Ge XR. Interactions of 3D embedded parallel vertically inclined cracks subjected to uniaxial compression. Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics, 2012, 61(1):1-11.

43. Zhang ZN*, Gao HJ. Simulating fracture propagation in rock and concrete by an augmented virtual internal bond method. International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, 2012, 36(4): 459–482.

44. Zhang ZN*, Huang K. A simple J-integral governed bilinear constitutive relation for simulating fracture propagation in quasi-brittle material. International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences, 2011, 48(2): 294-304.

45. Zhang ZN, Ghassemi A. Simulation of hydraulic fracture propagation near a natural fracture using virtual multidimensional internal bonds. International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, 2011, 35(4): 480-495.

46. Zhang ZN*, Chen YQ. Simulation of fracture propagation subjected to compressive and shear stress field using virtual multidimensional internal bonds. International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences 2009, 46(6):1010-1022.

47. Zhang ZN. Numerical simulation of crack propagation with equivalent cohesive zone method based on virtual internal bond theory. International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences, 2009, 46(2): 307-314.

48. Zhang ZN. Multiscale simulation of fracture propagation in heterogeneous materials using virtual multidimensional internal bonds. Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics, 2008, 49(3): 233-241.

49. Zhang ZN*, Ge XR. Numerical simulation of two-dimensional shear fracture based on virtual multi-dimensional internal bonds. International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences, 2008. 45(3): 442-449.

50. Zhang ZN*, Ge XR. Virtual multi-dimensional internal bonds model and its application in simulation of rock mass. Science in China Series E-Technological Sciences, 2008, 51(2): 192-201.

51. Zhang ZN*, Ge XR. Multiscale shear fracture of heterogeneous material using the virtual internal bond. Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics, 2007,47(3):185-191.

52. Zhang ZN*, Ge XR, Li YH. A multiscale mechanical model of materials based on Virtual Internal Bond theory. ACTA MECHANICA SOLIDA SINICA, 2006, 19(3):196-202.

53. Zhang ZN*, Ge XR. Micromechanical modeling of elastic continuum with virtual multi-dimensional internal bonds, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 2006. 65(1): 135-146.

54. Zhang ZN*, Ge XR. Micromechanical consideration of tensile crack behavior based on virtual internal bond in contrast to cohesive stress. Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics, 2005, 43(3):342-359.

55. Zhang ZN*, Ge XR. A new quasi-continuum constitutive model for crack growth in an isotropic solid. European Journal of Mechanics - A/Solids, 2005, 24(2):243-252. 

1. Rock Mechanics (For undergraduate)

2. Advanced Rock Mechanics (For postgraduate)