Jinge Wang

Email: jinge@berkeley.edu 

Linkedin: jinge-wang-cfd

Github: Jinge-Wang

Resume: link

I am a Ph.D. candidate in Mechanical Engineering at UC Berkeley, specializing in computational fluid dynamics, high-performance computing, and wave physics. Before joining Berkeley, I received my bachelor’s degree from the University of Rochester. My research focuses on developing highly parallelized, pseudo-spectral solvers and analytical reduced-order models to study complex wave interactions, such as triadic resonances and the Zombie Vortex Instability in rotating, stratified flows. Whether modernizing legacy Fortran codebases for supercomputing clusters, implementing custom GPU-accelerated kernels for anisotropic media, or formulating multi-scale perturbation theories, my goal is to push the boundaries of large-scale, high-fidelity physical simulation.

Core Competencies:

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD): Pseudo-spectral methods, Exponential-time-differencing (ETD) schemes, incompressible and Boussinesq equations, rotating/stratified flows, vortex dynamics, wave interactions.

  • High-Performance Computing (HPC): Hybrid MPI/OpenMP parallelization, custom GPU (CUDA) kernels, modular Fortran architecture, supercomputing scalability.

  • Applied Math & Theoretical Physics: Multi-scale perturbation theory, asymptotic analysis, and reduced-order modeling for nonlinear wave interactions.

 

If you can’t find me at the lab, it is likely that I am windsurfing at Cal Sailing Club. I have been windsurfing for more than 13 years, but I am yet to launch my first forward loop – finger crossed that I will land one before I graduate.

 

Windsurfing on an old Mistral One Design. Xuanwu Lake, Nanjing, China


 


Research at CFD Lab with Prof. Marcus:

Full-Length Articles

Haley Y. Wohlever, Jinge Wang, Philip S. Marcus (2026) Zombie Vortex Instability in rotating, stratified, shear flows: global stability and viscous thresholds, In preparation

Jinge Wang, Philip S Marcus (2026) A semi-analytical pseudo-spectral method for 3D Boussinesq equations of rotating, stratified flows in unbounded cylindrical domains, arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.07046, url

Sangjoon Lee, Jinge Wang (2025) MLegS: Modernized and Parallelized Mapped Legendre Spectral Method Code, Zenodo, url, doi:10.5281/zenodo.17095748

Jinge Wang, Sangjoon Lee, Philip S. Marcus (2024) Perturbation analysis of triadic resonance in columnar vortices: selection rules and the roles of external forcing and critical layers, arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.05287, url

Haris M. Sheikh, Sangjoon Lee, Jinge Wang, Philip S. Marcus (2023) Airfoil optimization using Design-by-Morphing, Journal of Computational Design and Engineering 10(4), p. 1443-1459, url, doi:10.1093/jcde/qwad059

Conference Papers/Abstracts

Jinge Wang, Philip S. Marcus (2025) Baroclinic Critical Layers and the Zombie Vortex Instability in Rotating Stratified Cylindrical Flows, APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting Abstracts

Sangjoon Lee, Jinge Wang, Philip S. Marcus (2024) Modernized and Parallelized Mapped Legendre Spectral Method Code for Unbounded Vortical Flow Simulations, APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting Abstracts, p. L16-007, url

Jinge Wang, Sangjoon Lee, Philip S. Marcus (2024) Stability Analysis of the Q-Vortex: Critical Swirling Parameter Determination via Perturbation Theories and Resonant Triadic Perturbations in the Sub-Critical Region, APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting Abstracts, p. J38-005, url

Jinge Wang, Sangjoon Lee, Philip S. Marcus (2023) Three-Wave Resonance in Neutrally Stable Wake Vortices, APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting Abstracts, p. ZC38-002, url

Philip S. Marcus, Jinge Wang, Sangjoon Lee (2022) A General Framework for Destabilizing Neutrally-Stable Flows Applied to Aircraft Wake Vortices, APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting Abstracts, p. L18-001, url

Jinge Wang, Sangjoon Lee, Philip S. Marcus (2021) Destabilizing Neutrally Stable Wake Vortices Using Degenerate Eigenmodes, APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting Abstracts, p. E24-003, url