Principal Investigator and Associate Professor in Fluid Mechanics
Research Areas
Education
Virginia Tech
Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering Mechanics (Advisor: Dr. Mark Stremler) 2013–2018
University of Science and Technology of China
Master of Engineering in Fluid Mechanics 2009–2012
University of Science and Technology of China
Bachelor of Science in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics 2005–2009
Experience
Queen's University Postdoctoral Fellow in Mechanical Engineering 2018–2021
Publications
Papers
Emad Masroor, Wenchao Yang* and Mark A Stremler, Flow visualization data from experiments with an oscillating circular cylinder in a gravity-driven soap film, (2022). Data in Brief 41:107819
Javad Eshraghi, Lalit K Rajendran, Wenchao Yang, Mark A Stremler and Pavlos P Vlachos*, On flowing soap films as experimental models of 2D Navier-Stokes flows, (2021). Experiments in Fluids 62:162
Wenchao Yang, Emad Masroor and Mark Stremler*, The wake of a transversely oscillating circular cylinder in a flowing soap film at low Reynolds number, (2021). Journal of Fluids and Structures 16 103343
David Rival*, Wenchao Yang* and Jean-Bernard Caron, Fish without tail fins - exploring the swimming performance of the first vertebrates, (2021). Integrative and Comparative Biology 61 37-49
Pengming Guo, Kai Zhang, Yuji Yasuda, Wenchao Yang*, Josephine Galipon and David Rival, On the influence of biomimetic shark skin in dynamic separation, (2021). Bioinspiration & Biomimetics. 16 034001
Louis Burelle, Wenchao Yang*, Frieder Kaiser and David Rival, Exploring the signature of distributed pressure measurements on non-slender delta wings during axial and vertical gusts, (2020). Physics of Fluids. 32 115110
Wenchao Yang and Mark Stremler*, Critical spacing of stationary tandem circular cylinders at Re approximate to 100, (2019). Journal of Fluids and Structures. 89 49-61
Wenchao Yang, Hui Wang, Jianting Yang and Jiming Yang*, Characterization of the Flow Separation of a Variable Camber Airfoil, (2012). Chinese Physics Letters. 29 044701
Yun Liu, Wenchao Yang and Jiming Yang*, Visualization Study of a Low Speed Oblique Plate, (2011). Journal of Visualization. 14 141
Opening
Applications are invited for Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Fellowship positions in Fluid Mechanics, under the supervision of Dr. Wenchao Yang.