Yue Yang Ph.D. California Institute of Technology Address: 138 Upson Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 Email: yy463 at cornell dot edu

 

 

Employment

• 03/2011  Combustion Energy Research Fellow
  Combustion Energy Frontier Research Center, Princeton University, NJ, USA
  
  Co-sponsored by Prof. Stephen B. Pope, Cornell University and
  Dr. Jacqueline H. Chen, Sandia National Laboratories
  
  

Education

• 02/2011  Ph.D. in Aeronautics (Advisor: Prof. Dale I. Pullin)
  California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
  
  
• 06/2007  M.S. in Fluid Mechanics (Advisor: Prof. Guo-wei He)
  Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
  
  
• 06/2004  B.E. in Thermal Engineering; B.E. in Computer Science
  Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
  
  

Research

• Large-eddy simulation/PDF modeling of turbulent reactive flow
  
  
• Lagrangian study of turbulence and vortex dynamics
  
  
• Multi-scale geometric analysis of turbulence and scalar mixing
  
  

Publications

[Full list of publications]

1. Y. Yang, S. B. Pope and J. H. Chen
   A LES/PDF study of a turbulent lifted ethylene jet flame in heated coflow
   (in preparation)
   
   
   
   
2. Y. Yang, S. B. Pope and J. H. Chen
   Empirical low-dimensional manifold in composition space
   Combustion and Flame, 2013, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.combustflame.2013.04.006 | PDF |
   
   
   
   
3. Y. Yang, H. Wang, S. B. Pope and J. H. Chen
   Large-eddy simulation/PDF modeling of a non-premixed CO/H₂ temporally evolving jet flame
   Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 34 : 1241-1249, 2013 | PDF |
   
   
   
   
4. Y. Yang and D. I. Pullin
   Evolution of vortex-surface fields in viscous Taylor-Green and Kida-Pelz flows
   Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 685 : 146-164, 2011 | PDF |
   
   
   
   
5. Y. Yang and D. I. Pullin
   Geometric study of Lagrangian and Eulerian structures in turbulent channel flow
   Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 674 : 67-92, 2011 | PDF |
   
   
   
   
6. Y. Yang and D. I. Pullin
   On Lagrangian and vortex-surface fields for flows with Taylor-Green and Kida-Pelz initial conditions
   Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 661 : 446-481, 2010 | PDF |
   
   
   
   
7. Y. Yang, D. I. Pullin and I. Bermejo-Moreno
   Multi-scale geometric analysis of Lagrangian structures in isotropic turbulence
   Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 654 : 233-270, 2010 | PDF | Featured on cover |
   
   
   
   
8. Y. Yang, G.-W. He and L.-P. Wang
   Effects of subgrid scale modeling on Lagrangian statistics in large-eddy simulation
   Journal of Turbulence 9 (8) : 1-24, 2008 | PDF |
   
   
   
   

Teaching

• 08/2011-12/2011  Assistant Instructor, Analysis of Turbulent Flows (MAE 7340), Cornell University
  
  
• 01/2010-03/2010  Graduate Teaching Assistant and guest lecturer, Advanced fluid mechanics (Ae 201), California Institute of Technology
  
  
• 10/2008-06/2009  Graduate Teaching Assistant, Fluid mechanics (Ae 101abc), California Institute of Technology

Awards

• 2011  Richard Bruce Chapman Memorial Award for distinguished research in Hydrodynamics, California Institute of Technology
  
  
• 2011  Combustion Energy Research Fellowship, Princeton University
  
  
• 2007  Guggenheim Fellowship, California Institute of Technology

Last updated: 05/01/2013