Publications

Xin Wei, Haoran Chang, Qifeng Li, Wei Wu, Christos N. Markides, Mengying Li (2026). Solar-driven cogeneration of electricity and water vapor via photovoltaic-enabled contactless evaporation. Applied Energy, 427, 129147 (2027).

Ip Cheng, Qinhui Lu, Mengying Li, Jianli Chen, Zhe Wang, Marcus Leung-Shea (2026). Auto-modelling for rooftop photovoltaic power estimation. Sustainable Cities and Society.

Xinhao Zhao, Zhicheng Lin, Yuan Wang, Hongrui Zhang, Haijuan Wu, Qiang Sun, Shengduo Xu, Mengying Li, Chao Tan, Zegao Wang, Lei Yang (2026). Spatially encoded broadband all-optical thermoelectric synapses for in-sensor computing. Journal of Materials Science & Technology.

Haoran Chang, Ip Cheng, Liutao Chen, Xin Wei, Zhe Wang, Mengying Li (2026). A transient multiphysics modeling framework for microclimate in photovoltaic-integrated green roofs. Energy.

Ip Cheng, Liutao Chen, Haoran Chang, Zinan Lin, Mengying Li, Zhe Wang (2026). High temporal-resolution microclimate and photovoltaic power dataset for sustainable rooftop design in subtropical humid city. Scientific Data.

Tao Jing, Shanlin Chen, Yinghao Chu, Mengying Li (2026). Relaxed Shape Alignment and Temporal Distortion Loss for improving solar ramp events prediction. Energy and AI.

Tao Jing, Shanlin Chen, Jinqing Peng, Mengying Li (2026). Improving day-ahead probabilistic solar irradiance forecasting via shape-prior flow matching for numerical weather prediction downscaling. Energy and AI.

Zhiheng Qiu, Xin Wei, Yinghao Song, Nan Deng, Ronghui Qi, Omar AlAli, Mengying Li (2026). Contactless evaporation for solar desalination: A review of fundamental principles and innovative designs. Desalination.

Tao Jing, Shanlin Chen, Jiannong Fang, Fernando Porte-Agel, Ming Chun Lam, Mengying Li (2026). Weakly Informative Priors Flow Matching for Probabilistic Regional Solar Irradiance Forecasting. IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy.

Yuying Xie, Nan Deng, Tao Jing, Mengying Li (2026). Real-time estimation of cloud properties and surface downwelling longwave radiation from satellite imagery: A two-stage surrogate modeling approach. Applied Energy.

Zhaoyin Liu, Yuxuan Wu, Zinan Lin, Man Sing Wong, Mengying Li, Zhe Wang, Li Zhang, Linyan Li (2026). Quantifying the supply-demand mismatch to optimize rooftop photovoltaic planning in China. Applied Energy.

Jiayu Zhou, Bin Zhou, Zhengyi Luo, Yanbo Shen, Mengying Li, Jinqing Peng (2026). A cross-modal deep learning framework based on dual-branch enhanced CNN and mamba for intra-day solar irradiance forecasting. Applied Energy.

Liutao Chen, Haoran Chang, Shihong Zhang, Mengying Li, Linyan Li, Dimitrios Karamanis, Zhe Wang (2026). Comparing designs for photovoltaic-green roofs: A year-long field study in a subtropical climate. Renewable Energy.

Lihao Yuan, Zhiheng Qiu, Omar AlAli, Ronghui Qi, Mengying Li (2026). A compact photovoltaic-thermal (PV/T) desalination system: Device development and performance optimization. Desalination.

Shanlin Chen, Tao Jing, Dazhi Yang, Yuntian Chen, Mengying Li, Yinghao Chu (2026). The role of spatio-temporal satellite-derived products and numerical weather forecasts in data-driven intra-day solar forecasting. Energy and AI.

Haoran Chang, Peixin Dong, Xin Wei, Liutao Chen, Hui Tang, Zhe Wang, Su Guo, Mengying Li (2026). Effects of photovoltaic module on wind dynamics over water surface for aquavoltaic applications. Renewable Energy.

Xiao Chen, Fengshuang Han, Meixuan Niu, Xi Chen, chenxi Zhang, Yangyu Liu, Mengying Li, Zhifeng Xia, Huicui Chen (2026). Boosting hydrogen evolution from DMF and water via oxygen vacancy modulation in Cu/CeO2 catalysts. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy.

Xiaomi Zhang, Dazhi Yang, Hao Zhang, Chunlin Huang, Yun Chen, Yanbo Shen, Bai Liu, Hongrong Shi, Mengying Li, Xiang’ao Xia, Yong Shuai (2026). Ensemble optical flow algorithms for intra-day solar irradiance forecasting with Fengyun-4A. Science China Technological Sciences.

Shanlin Chen, Tao Jing, Mengying Li, Hiu Hung Lee, Ming Chun Lam, Siqi Bu (2025). Interpretable transformer based intra-day solar forecasting with spatiotemporal satellite and numerical weather prediction inputs. Energy and AI.

Yuying Xie, Mengying Li (2025). Real-time Estimation of Surface Downwelling Longwave Radiation from Satellite Imagery for Sky Radiative Cooling Applications. Energy Proceedings.

Shanlin Chen, Tao Jing, Mengying Li, Hiu Hung Lee, Siqi Bu (2025). Improved satellite-based estimation of direct normal solar irradiance using clearness index with deep learning methods. Solar Energy.

Zhen Liu, Liangyu Li, Huping Yan, Chuanshuai Dong, Mengying Li, Ronghui Qi (2025). Efficient Humidity-to-Hydrogen Photocatalysis: Engineering Polymer-Catalyst Bonds in Hygroscopic Hydrogels with Sulfur-Vacancy-Rich Nanosheets. Small.

Peixin Dong, Haoran Chang, Nan Deng, Su Guo, Mengying Li (2025). Multiphysics modeling of open-water evaporation: Quantifying the natural convection effects of water. Applied Thermal Engineering.

Liutao Chen, Shihong Zhang, Ip Cheng, Haoran Chang, Fei Chen, Mengying Li, Zhe Wang (2025). The resilience paradox of rooftop PV: Building cooling penalties and heat risks. Buiding and Environment.

Liutao Chen, Zinan Lin, Qi Zhou, Shihong Zhang, Mengying Li, Zhe Wang (2025). Impacts of photovoltaics and integrated green roofs on urban climate: Experimental insights for urban land surface modelling. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews.

Tao Jing, Shanlin Chen, David Navarro-Alarcon, Yinghao Chu, Mengying Li (2025). SolarFusionNet: Enhanced Solar Irradiance Forecasting via Automated Multi-Modal Feature Selection and Cross-Modal Fusion. IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy.

Dapeng Wang, Zhaojian Liang, Ziqi Zhang, Mengying Li (2025). Efficient estimation of convective cooling of photovoltaic arrays: A physics-informed machine learning approach. Energy and AI.

Nan Deng, Peixin Dong, Zhe Wang, Mengying Li (2024). Quantifying the effects of spectral and directional distribution of radiation on its propagation in saline water. Applied Thermal Engineering.

Hanxin Yu, Shanlin Chen, Yinghao Chu, Mengying Li, Yueming Ding, Rongxi Cui, Xin Zhao (2024). Self-attention mechanism to enhance the generalizability of data-driven time-series prediction: A case study of intra-hour power forecasting of urban distributed photovoltaic systems. Applied Energy.

Lige Zhao, Qi Zhou, Mengying Li, Zhe Wang (2024). Evaluating different CFD surrogate modelling approaches for fast and accurate indoor environment simulation. Journal of Building Engineering.

Zhaojian Liang, Shanlin Chen, Meng Ni, Jingyi Wang, Mengying Li (2024). A novel control strategy to neutralize internal heat source within solid oxide electrolysis cell (SOEC) under variable solar power conditions. Applied Energy.

Xiaomi Zhang, Dazhi Yang, Hao Zhang, Bai Liu, Mengying Li, Yinghao Chu, Jingnan Wang, Xiang’ao Xia (2024). Spatial solar forecast verification with the neighborhood method and automatic threshold segmentation. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews.

Shanlin Chen, Chengxi Li, Roland Stull, Mengying Li (2024). Improved satellite-based intra-day solar forecasting with a chain of deep learning models. Energy Conversion and Management.

Zhaojian Liang, Jingyi Wang, Keda Ren, Zhenjun Jiao, Meng Ni, Liang An, Yang Wang, Jinbin Yang, Mengying Li (2024). Discovering two general characteristic times of transient responses in solid oxide cells. Nature Communications.

Yinghao Chu, Yiling Wang, Dazhi Yang, Shanlin Chen, Mengying Li (2024). A review of distributed solar forecasting with remote sensing and deep learning. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews.

Dazhi Yang, Yizhan Gu, Martin Janos Mayer, Christian A. Gueymard, Wenting Wang, Jan Kleissl, Mengying Li, Yinghao Chu, Jamie M. Bright (2024). Regime-dependent 1-min irradiance separation model with climatology clustering. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews.

Yinghao Chu, Dazhi Yang, Hanxin Yu, Xin Zhao, Mengying Li (2024). Can end-to-end data-driven models outperform traditional semi-physical models in separating 1-min irradiance?. Applied Energy.

Shanlin Chen, Chengxi Li, Yuying Xie, Mengying Li (2023). Global and direct solar irradiance estimation using deep learning and selected spectral satellite images. Applied Energy.

Qi Zhou, Peixin Dong, Mengying Li, Zhe Wang (2023). Analyzing the interactions between photovoltaic system and its ambient environment using CFD techniques: A review. Energy and Buildings.

Shanlin Chen, Zhaojian Liang, Peixin Dong, Su Guo, Mengying Li (2023). A transferable turbidity estimation method for estimating clear-sky solar irradiance. Renewable Energy.

Zhaojian Liang, Jingyi Wang, Yang Wang, Meng Ni, Mengying Li (2023). Transient characteristics of a solid oxide electrolysis cell under different voltage ramps: Transport phenomena behind overshoots. Energy Conversion and Management.

Yuying Xie, Chaoshun Li, Mengying Li, Fangjie Liu, Meruyert Taukenova (2023). An Overview of deterministic and probabilistic forecasting methods of wind energy. iScience.

Chen Wang, Su Guo, Huanjin Pei, Yi He, Deyou Liu, Mengying Li (2022). Rolling optimization based on holism for the operation strategy of solar tower power plant. Applied Energy.

Luyin Hu, Anqing Duan, Mengying Li, Andrea Cherubini, Lu Li, David Navarro-Alarcon (2022). Paint with the Sun: A Thermal-Vision Guided Robot to Harness Solar Energy for Heliography. IEEE Sensors Journal.

Kenny C. Gross, Mengying Li, Alan P. Wood, Steven T. Jeffreys, Avishkar Misra, Lawrence L. Fumagalli Jr (2022). Synthesizing High-fidelity Time-series Sensor Signals To Facilitate Machine-learning Innovations. US Patent No. 11392850.

Zhaojian Liang, Fengming Zhang, Mengying Li, Chunyuan Ma (2022). Formation and evolution characteristics of hydrothermal flames inside a transpiring wall reactor: A transient numerical investigation. The Journal of Supercritical Fluids.

Shanlin Chen, Zhaojian Liang, Su Guo, Mengying Li (2022). Estimation of high-resolution solar irradiance data using optimized semi-empirical satellite method and GOES-16 imagery. Solar Energy.

Shanlin Chen, Mengying Li (2022). Improved turbidity estimation from local meteorological data for solar resourcing and forecasting applications. Renewable Energy.

Yinghao Chu, Mengying Li, Hugo T. C. Pedro, Carlos F. M. Coimbra (2022). A network of sky imagers for spatial solar irradiance assessment. Renewable Energy.

Su Guo, Guotao Song, Mengying Li, Xiaohui Zhao, Yi He, Ainur Kurban, Wenjia Ji, Jiale Wang (2021). Multi-objective bi-level quantity regulation scheduling method for electric-thermal integrated energy system considering thermal and hydraulic transient characteristics. Energy Conversion and Management.

Luyin Hu, David Navarro-Alarcon, Andrea Cherubini, Mengying Li, Lu Li (2021). On Radiation-Based Thermal Servoing: New Models, Controls, and Experiments. IEEE Transactions on Robotics.

Yinghao Chu, Mengying Li, Carlos F. M. Coimbra, Daquan Feng, Huaizhi Wang (2021). Intra-hour irradiance forecasting techniques for solar power integration: A review. iScience.

Niankai Fu, Yingnan Hou, Kun Li, Mengying Li, Shuang Tang, Chao Yu (2021). A time of transition: Stories from starting a new research program in 2020. iScience.

Kenny C. Gross, Mengying Li, Dieter Gawlick, Zhen Hua Liu (2020). Multivariate Memory Vectorization Technique to Facilitate Intelligent Caching in Time-Series Databases. US Patent No. 10621141.

Kenny C. Gross, Mengying Li, Tahereh Masoumi (2020). Bivariate Optimization Technique for Tuning SPRT Parameters to Facilitate Prognostic Surveillance of Sensor Data from Power Plants. US Patent No.10606919.

Kenny C. Gross, Dieter Gawlick, Zhen Hua Liu, Mengying Li (2020). MSET-based Process for Certifying Provenance of Time-Series Data in a Time-Series Database. US Patent No. 10565185.

Mengying Li, Zhouyi Liao, Carlos F. M. Coimbra (2020). Spectral solar irradiance on inclined surfaces: a fast Monte Carlo approach. Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy.

David P. Larson, Mengying Li, Carlos F. M. Coimbra (2020). SCOPE: Spectral cloud optical property estimation using real-time GOES-R longwave imagery. Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy.

Mengying Li, Kenny C. Gross (2019). Dequantizing low-resolution IOT signals to produce high-accuracy prognostic indicators. US Patent No. 10496084.

Kenny C. Gross, Mengying Li, Alan P. Wood (2019). Hybrid Clustering-partitioning Technique that Optimizes Accuracy and Compute Cost for Prognostic Surveillance of Sensor Data. US Patent No. 10452510.

Kenny C. Gross, Mengying Li, Benjamin P. Franklin (2019). Electric Load Forecasting Based on Smart Meter Signals. US Patent 10310459.

Mengying Li, Hannah B. Peterson, Carlos F. M. Coimbra (2019). Radiative cooling resource maps for the contiguous United States. Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy.

Mengying Li, Carlos F. M. Coimbra (2019). On the effective spectral emissivity of clear skies and the radiative cooling potential of selectively designed materials. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer.

Zhouyi Liao, Mengying Li, Carlos F. M. Coimbra (2019). Anisotropic corrections for the downwelling radiative heat transfer flux from various types of aerosols. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer.

Mengying Li, Zhouyi Liao, Carlos F. M. Coimbra (2018). Spectral model for clear sky atmospheric longwave radiation. Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer.

Kenny C. Gross, Mengying Li (2018). Method for Improved IoT Prognostics and Improved Prognostic Cyber Security for Enterprise Computing Systems. Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

Mengying Li, Zhouyi Liao, Carlos F. M. Coimbra (2018). Efficient model for evaluation of spectral and vertical distributions of atmospheric longwave radiation. International Heat Transfer Conference Digital Library.

Sanjeev Sondur, Kenny C. Gross, Mengying Li (2018). Data Center Cooling System Integrated with Low-Temperature Desalination and Intelligent Energy-Aware Control. Proceedings of International Green and Sustainable Computing Conference (IGSC18).

Mengying Li, Yuanjie Jiang, Carlos F. M. Coimbra (2017). On the determination of atmospheric longwave irradiance under all-sky conditions. Solar Energy.

Yinghao Chu, Mengying Li, Carlos F. M. Coimbra (2016). Sun-tracking imaging system for intra-hour DNI forecasts. Renewable Energy.

Mengying Li, Yinghao Chu, Hugo T.C. Pedro, Carlos F. M. Coimbra (2016). Quantitative evaluation of the impact of cloud transmittance and cloud velocity on the accuracy of short-term DNI forecasts. Renewable Energy.

Yinghao Chu, Mengying Li, Hugo T.C. Pedro, Carlos F. M. Coimbra (2015). Real-time prediction intervals for intra-hour DNI forecasts. Renewable Energy.

Yinghao Chu, Hugo T.C. Pedro, Mengying Li, Carlos F. M. Coimbra (2015). Real-time forecasting of solar irradiance ramps with smart image processing. Solar Energy.

Mengying Li, Howard H. Hu, Haim H. Bau (2015). Range of Validity of a Simplified Model for Diffuse Charge Dynamics. Electroanalysis.

Mengying Li, Noam Lior (2015). Energy analysis for guiding the design of well systems of deep Enhanced Geothermal Systems. Energy.

Mengying Li, Howard H. Hu, Haim H. Bau (2015). Capacitive charging and desalination dynamics of a packed-bed reactor. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics.

Mengying Li, Noam Lior (2015). Analysis of Hydraulic Fracturing and Reservoir Performance in Enhanced Geothermal Systems. Journal of Energy Resources Technology.

Mengying Li, Noam Lior (2014). Comparative analysis of power plant options for enhanced geothermal systems (EGS). Energies.