Ph.D., Associate Professor

Department of Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering

State Key Laboratory for Turbulence and Complex System

Center for Applied Physics and Technology

College of Engineering, Peking University
Beijing, 100871, China

• Office Tel: +86-10-62567941

• Email: zxiao（at）coe.pku.edu.cn

Education Background

2008  Ph. D  Mechanical Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University, US

2003  M.S.   Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Southern California, US

2001  M.E.   Engineering Mechanics,TianjinUniversity, Tianjin, China.

1998  B.E.    Engineering Mechanics,TianjinUniversity, Tianjin, China

Research Areas And Interests

1.  Fluid Turbulence; Stability and Transition;

2.  Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD);

3.  Turbulence Modeling and Large-Eddy Simulation (LES);

4.  Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS);

5.  Parallel Computing.

Courses

Engineering Fluid Mechanics (Fall 2009)

Selected Publications

1. Z. Xiao , I. Hosokawa and S. Chen, “Interdependence of velocity increment and velocity sum: A numerical evidence”, Phys. Fluids (2008) (Preprint)

2. Zuoli Xiao , Minping Wan, Shiyi Chen and Gregory L. Eyink, “Production of turbulent energy cascade in two and three dimensions”, J. Fluid Mech . (2008) (Preprint)

3. Yipeng Shi, Suyang Pei, Zuoli Xiao , Yantao Yang and Shiyi Chen, “Reynolds stress constrained SGS stress model for wall bounded turbulent flows”, J. Fluid Mech . (2008) (Preprint)

4. Minping Wan, Charles Meneveau, Zuoli Xiao , Gregory L. Eyink, and Shiyi Chen, “Evidence supporting the turbulent Lagrangian energy cascade”, Phys. Rev. Lett . (2008) (Preprint)

5. Zuoli Xiao , Minping Wan, Shiyi Chen and Gregory L. Eyink, “Physical mechanism of the inverse energy cascade of two-dimensional turbulence: a numerical investigation”, J. Fluid Mech . 619 ：1-44. (2009)

6. Yipeng Shi, Zuoli Xiao and Shiyi Chen, “Constrained subgrid-scale stress model for large eddy simulation”, Phys. Fluids . 20 , 011701. (2008)

7. Shiyi Chen, Gregory L. Eyink, Minping Wanand Zuoli Xiao , “Is the Kelvintheorem valid for high Reynolds number turbulence?”, Phys. Rev. Lett . 97, 144505. (2006)

8. Shiyi Chen, Robert E. Ecke, Gregory L. Eyink, Michael Rivera, Minping Wanand Zuoli Xiao , “Physical mechanism of the two-dimensional inverse energycascade”, Phys. Rev. Lett . 96, 084502. (2006)

9. Shiyi Chen, Robert E. Ecke, Gregory L. Eyink, Xin Wang and Zuoli Xiao , “Physical mechanism of the two-dimensional enstrophy cascade”, Phys. Rev. Lett . 91 , 214501. (2003)

10. J. Andrzej Domaradzki, Z. Xiao and Piotr Smolarkiewicz, “Effective eddy viscosities in implicit modeling of turbulent flows”, Phys. Fluids . 15 : 3890-3893.(2003)

11. Jisheng Luo and Zuoli Xiao , “Numerical study on the mixing of a mixing layer under active control”, Acta mechanica Sinica , 34(2) :168-175.(2002)

12. Zuoli Xiao , “Numerical Study on the Mixing of a 2-D Mixing Layer Between Two Flats Under Active Control”, The 6th National Academic Conference of Turbulence and Flow Stability , Shanghai, China. (2000)

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (* indicates I was the speaker)

1. Shiyi Chen, Robert Ecke, Gregory L. Eyink, Zuoli Xiao* , “Physical Mechanism of the Two-Dimensional Enstrophy Cascade”, The American Physical Society, 56th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics, Meadowlands, NJ, Monday, November 24, 2003

2. Zuoli Xiao* , Shiyi Chen, Robert Ecke, Gregory L. Eyink, Michael Rivera, Minping Wan, “On vortex-merger and vortex-thinning in a 2D inverse energy cascade ”, The American Physical Society, 57th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics, Seattle, WA, Tuesday, November 23, 2004

3. Zuoli Xiao* , Shiyi Chen, Minping Wan, and Gregory L. Eyink, “Production of turbulent energy flux in inertial-range cascades”, The American Physical Society, 58th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics, Chicago, IL, Tuesday, November 22, 2005

4. Shiyi Chen, Gregory L. Eyink, Minping Wan, and Zuoli Xiao* , “On the Inverse Energy Cascade of Two-Dimensional Turbulence”, 2006 Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting, Beijing, China, Monday, July 24, 2006

5. Yipeng Shi, Zuoli Xiao* , Zhensu She, and Shiyi Chen, “Large eddy simulation with energy and helicity flux constraint”, The American Physical Society, 59th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics, Tampa, FL, Monday, November 20, 2006

6. Zuoli Xiao* , Yi-peng Shi, and Shiyi Chen, “Constrained dynamic subgrid-scale model for large eddy simulation”, The American Physical Society, 60th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics, Salt Lake City, UT, Tuesday, November 20, 2007