Wu Yanhua
Assistant Professor
School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Nanyang Technological University
Singapore
Biography
Asst Prof Wu Yanhua joined the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) in January 2011. He obtained his B.Eng. in Engineering Thermophysics and B.A. in English in Science and Technology in 1997 from Tianjin University, China. He then worked as a thermal control engineer for satellites in Beijing Institute of Spacecraft System Engineering in Beijing, China until 2001. He obtained his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from University of New Mexico in 2004 and his Ph.D. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2008. He was an Assistant Professor in the department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Wright State University in Dayton, OH, USA before joining NTU. He is a senior member of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, a member of American Society of Mechanical Engineering and American Physical Society.
Research Interest
Fluid mechanics, aerodynamics, renewable energy, experimental methods.
Publications
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H.Tang, P. Salunkhe, Y. Zheng*, J. Du, and Y. Wu. On the use of synthetic jet actuator arrays for active flow separation control. Exp Thermal Fluid Sci, 57, 1-10.
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Y. Wu. A study of energetic large-scale structures in turbulent boundary layer. Phys. Fluids, 26, 045113.
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Mejia-alvarez, R., Wu, Y. and Christensen, K.T. 2014. Observations of meandering superstructures in the roughness sublayer of a turbulent boundary layer. International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, 48, 43-51.
