Jie Yu Assistant Professor Water Resources/Environmental Engineering Office: 311 Mann Hall Phone: (919) 515-7702 Fax: (919) 515-7908 E-mail: jie_yu@ncsu.edu Personal page: http://www4.ncsu.edu/~jyu4/

Research Interests

Water wave mechanics, coastal hydrodynamics and processes, environmental fluid mechanics.

Education

Ph.D. Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000

M.S. Computational and Applied Mathematics, Florida State University, 1993

B.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, 1989

Representative Publications

Howard, L.N. and Yu, J. Normal modes of a tank with corrugated bottom. J. Fluid Mech. In press.

Yu, J. 2006. On the instability leading to rip currents due to wave-current interaction. J. Fluid Mech., 549, 403-428.

Yu, J. and Murray, B.A. 2005. Rip currents due to wave-current interaction. In Advances in Engineering Mechanics - Reflections and Outlooks. In Honor of Theodore Y-T Wu. Chwang, A. T., Teng, M. H. and Valentine, D. T. eds., 117-127, World Scientific.

Yu, J. and Slinn, D.N. 2000. Effects of wave-current interaction on rip currents. J. Geophy. Res., 108(C3), 3088, doi:10.1029/2001JC001105.

Mei, C.C., Hara, T. and Yu, J. 2001. Longshore bars and Bragg Resonance. Chapter 20 in Geomorphological Fluid Dynamics, Balmforth, N. and Provenzale, A eds., Springer-Verlag.

Yu, J. and Mei, C.C. 2000. Formation of sand bars under surface waves. J. Fluid Mech., 416, 315-348.

Yu, J. and Mei, C.C. 2000. Do longshore bars shelter the shore? J. Fluid Mech., 404, 251-270.

Mei, C.C. and Yu, J. 1997. The instability of sand ripples under partially standing surface waves. Physics of Fluids, 9(6), 1606-1620.