Weidong Su


Ph.D., Associate Professor

State Key Laboratory for Turbulence and Complex Systems 
Department of Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering 
College of Engineering, Peking University

Office Add: Rm 317, Mechanics Building

Office Tel: +86-10-62759674

Fax: +86-10-62757944

Email: swd(at)pku.edu.cn

 


 

Education

•B.E., Applied Mechanics, National University of Defense Technology

•Ph.D., Fluid Mechanics, Peking University

 


 

Research Areas

Scaling phenomena, Statistical and phenomenological theory of turbulence and complex systems, Turbulence modeling, Vortex dynamics, Hydrodynamics, Nonlinear dynamics

 


 

Research Profile

Inspired by the intensive and extensive interest on basic theoretical research, I have been working on interdisciplinary research between turbulence, hydrodynamics and mathematics and nonlinear dynamics. Some fundamental results had been obtained concerning Lagrangian turbulence, helicity analysis and classical differential geometry, and hierarchical structure model of turbulence. Recently, some important advances have been made on the generalization of She-Leveque hierarchical structure model of turbulence, the phenomenology of probability density functions of multi-scale fluctuations of stochastic fields, the mathematical theory of scaling laws, the invariants of fluid Euler equation, and some new mathematical physics properties on the decomposition of three-dimensional vector fields.

 


 

Professional Honors and Awards

The First Prize of Excellent Teacher Award of the 3rd ‘Zhou Pei-Yuan Teaching Award’, 2000
 

The second Prize of Beijing Teaching Production Award for Advanced Education (as second contributor),2002
 

Teaching Award by Peking University, 2005
 

Teaching Award by Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, 2006
 

The First Prize of Excellent Teacher Award of the 4rd ‘Zhou Pei-Yuan Teaching Award’, 2007
 

Teaching Award by Founder Group, 2009
 

Teaching Award by Peking University, 2011

 

 


 

Selected Publications

1.Y.-T. Yang, W.-D. Su, J.-Z. Wu, Helical-wave decomposition and applications to channel turbulence with streamwise rotation, J. Fluid Mech., 2010, 662: 91-122
 

2.W.-D. Su, The solutions of the frozen field equation and the conserved quantities of the Euler equations, Proceedings of the 2009’ National Workshop for Young Scholars on Fluid Mechanics: 97-102 (in Chinese)
 

3.W.-D. Su, J.-Z. Zhu, A model equation for the multi-scale probability density function of turbulent fluctuations, Proceedings of the 2005’ National Workshop for Young Scholars on Fluid Mechanics: 63-70 (in Chinese)
 

4.W.-D. Su,  Some theoretical issues on hierarchical structure model of turbulence, In:  Modern mathematics and mechanics MMM-IX (in Chinese),  ed. Dai SQ et al, Shanghai: Shanghai University Press, 2004: 578-582  (in Chinese)
 

5.W.-D. Su, Z.-S. She,  A unified phenomenology for the probability density functions of turbulent fluctuations, Proceedings of the 7th National Conference on Turbulence and Flow Instability, August 10-13, 2004, Beijing: 156-160
 

6.W.-D. Su, P.C-Hao, Y Yang,  Generalized hierarchical structures in turbulence, Proceedings of the Sixth China-Japan Workshop on Turbulent Flows, Oct.31-Nov.2, 2004, Hayama, Japan.
 

7.E.S.C. Ching, Z.-S She, W.-D. Su, Z Zou, Extended self-similarity and hierarchical structure in turbulence, Phy. Rev. E, 2002, 64: 066303
 

8.W.-D. Su, H Zhao, Q.-D. Cai, A.-K. Xiong, J.-Z.Wu, A diagnosis of linear eddy-viscosity in turbulence modeling, Phys. Fluids, 2002, 14(3):1284-1287