Published Papers:

1. Jian Ma and Oliver Hemmers, Technoeconomic Analysis of Microalgae Cofiring Process for Fossil Fuel-Fired Power Plants , J. Energy Resour. Technol. 133, 011801 , DOI:10.1115/1.4003729, 2011.
2. T. Moazzeni, J. Ma, Yingtao Jiang, and N. Li, Flow Rate Measurement in a High Temperature, Radioactive, and Corrosive Environment, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Vol PP (99), pp. 1-8, 2011.
3. J. Ma, P. Guo, J. Zhang, N. Li and B. Fu, Enhancement of Oxygen Transfer in Liquid Lead-Bismuth Eutectic by Natural Convection, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, January, Vol. 48 (13), p. 2601-2612, 2005.
4. J. Ma, S. C. M. Yu, and H. W. Ng, The Particle in-flight Characteristics in Plasma Spraying Process measured by Phase Doppler Anemometry (PDA), Plasma Chemistry and Plasma Processing, 25 (1), 2005.
5. J. Ma, S. C. M. Yu, H. W. Ng, C. Y. Lam, Some Observations on Particle Size and Velocity Measurements using Phase Doppler Anemometry in Plasma Spray, Plasma chemistry and Plasma Processing, Vol. 24, No. 1, 2003.
6. Jian Ma, Mingmin Guo, Youheng Xu, Interference Effects on Wind Loads of Two Prismatic Cylinders Arranged in a Line, Chinese Quarterly of Mechanics, Vol. 21, No.3, September, 2000.
7. Dongqun Huang, Jian Ma, Liyun Dong, Youheng Xu, The Modeling of Nature Air Flow in The Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel, Shanghai Journal of Mechanics, Vol.20, No.1, March 1999.
8. Youheng Xu, Delong Zhang, Jian Ma, An Experimental Study on the Amplitude of Fluctuating Pressure of Flow around a Group of Three Cylinders, Journal of Hydrodynamics, Ser. A, Vol. 12, No.4, December, 1997.

Presentations:

1. Ma, J. Biological, Chemical and Engineering Research to Study the Viability for an Algal Biofuel Economy in Southern Nevada, Nevada Renewable Energy Consortium Lecture Series, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV April 13, 2010.
2. S. Ignatiev, M. Leonchuk, Yu. Orlov, D. Pankratov, N. Klimov, V. Stepanov, W. Gudowski, N. Li, J. Ma, A. Hechanova, Experience in Development and Isothermal Testing of Lead-Bismuth Target Circuit TC-1 for ADS, Nuclear Technologies of XXI century, Minsk, Russia, Oct 6-8, 2010.
3. Ma, J., O. Hemmers, Thermo-economic Analysis of Microalgae Co-firing Process for Fossil Fuel-fired Power Plants, ASME 4th International Conference on Energy Sustainability, May 19-22, Phoenix, Arizona 2010.
4. Moazzeni, T., J. Ma, Y. Jiang, and N. Li, Flow Rate Measurement in a High Temperature, Radioactive, and Corrosive Environment, accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement in Jan., 2010.
5. Taleb Moazzeni, Jian Ma, Rohit Reddy, Yingtao Jiang, Ning Li, Measurement of Liquid Metal Coolant Flow Velocity with Correlated Thermal Signals, AMERICAN NUCLEAR SOCIETY TRANSACTIONS, VOL. 99 Page 645-646, November 10-13, 2008, Reno, Nevada. 
6. Xiuju Tan, Joon S. Lee, Jian Ma, Woosoon Yim,Disturbance Observer based Thermal Hydraulic Control of the Lead Bismuth Eutectic Loop, The Eighth International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Applications and Utilization of Accelerators, Pocatello, Idaho, July 30 to August 2, 2007. 
7. D. Cook, Y. Chen, L. J. Ratliff, H. Chen and J. Ma, Numerical Modeling of EM Pump Efficiency, 2006 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition November 5-10, 2006, Chicago, Illinois, USA, Paper number: IMECE2006-15174
8. J. Ma, N. Li, S. Ignatiev and V. Kutanov, Performance of Magnetic Hydro-Dynamic Pump in Lead-Bismuth Eutectic Target Circuit (TC-1), Proceedings of ICAPP ’06, Reno, Nevada, June 4, 2006. 
9. X. Wu, J. Ma, Y. Jiang, B. Fu, W. Hang, J. Zhang, and N. Li, Instrumentation of YSZ Oxygen Sensor Calibration in Liquid Lead-Bismuth Eutectic, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Kobe Japan, May, 2005. 
10. J. Ma, P. Guo, J. Zhang, N. Li and B. Fu, Enhancement of Oxygen Transfer in Liquid Lead-Bismuth Eutectic by Natural Convection, ASME Heat Transfer Fluids Engineering Summer Conference HT-FED2004-56689, July 11-15, Charlotte, North Carolina, 2004.
11. J. Ma, S. C. M. Yu, H. W. Ng, C. Y. Lam, Measurements of Size and Velocity Characteristics in Plasma Spraying Process using PDA, 32nd AIAA Plasmadynamics and Lasers Conference, June 11-14, 2001/ Anaheim, CA.