I am currently a Ph.D. student in Department of Mechanical Engineering at Berkeley. I am from Beijing, China. I completed my undergraduate studies at TsingHua University and received my Masters studying at Peking University.
My major is Fluid Mechanics. Currently, I am working on vortices and waves in the Protoplanetary Disk using numerical simulations. The Protoplanetary Disk is a fluid system with strong rotation, stratification and shear, which favors vortices and internal waves. With the results from highly resolved numerical simulations, we could better understand the physics such as how vortices generate in the disk, what is the structure of a 3D equilibrium vortex, can we get energy out from the shear, etc.
My research interests also include geophysical flows, internal waves in the ocean, stability, turbulence and its modeling.
Research at CFD Lab with Prof. Marcus:
Full-Length Articles
(2018) Zombie Vortex Instability. III. Persistence with Nonuniform Stratification and Radiative Damping, The Astrophysical Journal 869(2), p. 127, pdf, doi:10.3847/1538-4357/aaec80
(2016) Zombie Vortex Instability. II. Thresholds to Trigger Instability and the Properties of Zombie Turbulence in the Dead Zones of Protoplanetary Disks, The Astrophysical Journal 833(2), p. 148, pdf, doi:10.3847/1538-4357/833/2/148
(2015) Zombie Vortex Instability. I. A Purely Hydrodynamic Instability to Resurrect the Dead Zones of Protoplanetary Disks, The Astrophysical Journal 808(1), p. 87, doi:10.1088/0004-637X/808/1/87
(2013) Three-dimensional vortices generated by self-replication in stably stratified rotating shear flows, Physical Review Letters 111(8), p. 84501, APS, pdf, doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.084501
Conference Papers/Abstracts
(2016) Zombie Turbulence and More in Stratified Couette Flow, APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting Abstracts, p. D35–003, url
(2015) Zombie Vortex Instability: Effects of Non-uniform Stratification & Thermal Cooling, APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting Abstracts, p. R30–002, url
(2015) Baroclinic Critical Layers and the Zombie Vortex Instability (ZVI) in Stratified, Rotating Shear Flows: Where They Form and Why, APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting Abstracts, p. L30–002, url
(2014) The Zombie Instability: Using Numerical Simulation to Design a Laboratory Experiment, APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting Abstracts, p. A22-009, pdf
(2014) Zombie Vortices: Angular Momentum Transport and Planetesimal Formation, APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting Abstracts, p. E17-005, pdf
(2014) Zombie Vortices: The Dead Zones of Protoplanetary Disks are Not Dead, APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting Abstracts, p. E17-004, pdf
(2013) 3D Zombie Vortices in Rotating Stratified Shear, APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting Abstracts, p. M1-008, pdf
(2013) Noise and Turbulence Generate 3D Zombie Vortices in Stably Stratified Rotating Shear Flows, APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting Abstracts, p. M1-009, pdf
(2013) The role of interactions between waves and baroclinic critical layers in zombie vortex self-replication, APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting Abstracts, p. L32-003, pdf
(2013) The Dead Zones of Protoplanetary Disks are Not Dead, EPJ Web of Conferences 46, p. 3006, pdf
(2012) The Easily Excitable Baroclinic Critical Layers in Rotating, Horizontally Shearing, Vertically Stratified Flows and Their Roll-up into Vortices, APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting Abstracts, p. R7-008, pdf
(2012) Self-Similar, Self-Replicating, Critical Layers and Vortices in Rotating, Horizontally Shearing, Vertically-Stratified Flows, APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting Abstracts, p. R7-009, pdf
(2010) How do 3D Vortices Spin Down, or Do They?, APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting Abstracts 63, p. CN-007, pdf
(2010) Secondary Flows Within 3D Vortices, APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting Abstracts 63, p. CN-006, pdf