Yonghua Yan, Ph.D

Associate Professor

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05/2012. Department of Mathematics, The University of Texas at Arlington, Ph.D.
03/2008. Shanghai Institute of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, Shanghai University, M.E.
07/2005. Department of Mechanics, Shanghai University, B.S.

Enhancing Accuracy in Numerical Simulations for High-speed flows: Integrating High-order Corrections with Weighted Essentially Non Oscillatory Flux. Processes, 2024, 12, 642. https://doi.org/10.3390/pr12040642. With Yong Yang, Shiming Yuan and Caixia Chen.
Numerical Study of the Effect of Micro Vortices on Chaotic Flutter. Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics. 2024, Vol 436, 115401. with Seshendra Palakurthy, Anup Zope, Eric Collins and Shanti Bhushan.
Numerical Study on the Ring-like Vortex Structure Generated by MVG in High-Speed flows with Different Mach Numbers, Japan Journal of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Vol 39, pages3–18 (2022). With Yong Yang, Caixia Chen, Herious A. Cotton and Aliztel Serrano.
Modal Analysis on MVG Controlled Supersonic Flow at Different Mach Numbers. Processes 2022, 10, 1456. with Yong Yang, Caixia Chen, Qingquan Wu, Tor A. Kwembe and Ryan Wu.
Study on the Sensitivity of the Streamwise Location of MVG on SWBLI in MVG-Based Supersonic Flow Control. Fluids 2022, 7, 285. https://doi.org/10.3390/ fluids7090285. with Demetric L. Baines, Yong Yang, Caixia Chen, and Tor A Kwembe.

2016-present Machine learning in scientific computing, Numerical study of high-speed flow control, Numerical simulation of human swallowing,
2008-2016 High-order and High-resolution numerical methods for PDEs, Numerical simulation of supersonic flows, Study on the mechanism of turbulence
2005-2008 Numerical study of multiphase flow
2004-2005 Theoretical and numerical study on the mechanism of nano carbon tubes

Associate Professor – Department of Mathematics and Statistical Sciences, Jackson State University (2023 – present)

Assistant Professor – Department of Mathematics and Statistical Sciences, Jackson State University (2017 – 2023)

Assistant Professor – Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Alcorn State University (2016 –2017)

Assistant Professor – Department of Mathematics, Huston-Tillotson University (2014 –2016)

Postdoctoral Research Associate – Department of Mathematics, University of Texas at Arlington (2012 –2014)
Work Experience
Numerical Simulation/Computational Fluid Dynamics

Machine Learning and Data Visualization

Numerical Methods for PDEs

Turbulence, High-speed Complex Flow and Flow Control
Research Interests
Member of SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics).

Member of MAS (Mississippi Academy of Sciences), Vice Chair of the Math and Computer Science Division.
Professional Association