Jie Yu
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Assistant ProfessorWater Resources/Environmental Engineering Office: 311 Mann Hall 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.



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