Assistant Professor

Education

PhD, Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago
MSc, Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago
BSc, Physics, National Taiwan University

Areas of Research

Fluid Dynamics:
two-phase flows, effect of (soluble and insoluble) surfactants, turbulent two-phase flows, especially the numerical aspects, pattern-forming hydrodynamical systems and defect chaos, stirring and mixing, transport and particle dynamics, geophysical fluid dynamics: stratified shear flow, wind-driven surface waves and air-sea exchange.

Biological Fluid Dynamics:
tumor growth: especially the effect of oxygen and nutrient transport in the capillaries, reaction-diffusion equations and biological pattern formation in cyano bacteria colonies, bio-films with ligand-binding with the substrate.

Numerical analysis:
Particle (Lagrangian) formulation of the advection-diffusion process, Level set methods in material sciences.

Turbulence:
Anisotropy in forced turbulence, such as Rayleigh-Taylor instability, coupling between large-scale coherent mean flow and small-scale self-similar eddies, Lagrangian description of turbulent mixing in Rayleigh-Taylor and Kelvin-Helmoltz instabilities.