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Biography

Zhou Xiaohe, male, Han nationality, is a native of Shenxian County, Hebei Province, and was born in Beijing. He graduated from Qinghua University in 1950 and received his vice-doctorate from the Moscow Steel and Alloy Institute in 1957.

Zhou Xiaohe conducted research on the heat transmission, mass transfer, and momentum transfer in the solidification process of casting and established a new theory framework for the formation principle of coercibility solidification structure. He discovered and defined the world's 1st 3rd-convection zone in the solidification process of cast ingot and advanced on the basis of the former steel ingot head normal segregation theory. Zhou had several achievements in the solidification front edge dynamics, liquid metal deep cooling and three dimensional non-crystal alloy preparations. He presided over the establishment of the 1st major laboratory on solidification technology in China.

Zhou was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1991.