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20192025
most citedDensity Effects on the Post-shock Turbulence Structure and Dynamics

25 citations · 45 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

physics.flu-dyn2025

Lagrangian Attention Tensor Networks for Velocity Gradient Statistical Modeling

Criston Hyett, Yifeng Tian, Michael Woodward +4

Direct numerical simulation of turbulence at realistic Reynolds numbers is still beyond current computational capability, necessitating models that reduce the number of resolved sp…

physics.flu-dyn2023

Mori-Zwanzig mode decomposition: Comparison with time-delay embeddings

Michael Woodward, Yen Ting Lin, Yifeng Tian +3

We introduce the Mori-Zwanzig Mode Decomposition (MZMD), a novel data-driven technique for efficient modal analysis of and reduced-order modeling of large-scale spatio-temporal dyn…

physics.flu-dyn2023★ 4 cited

Data-Driven Mori-Zwanzig: Reduced Order Modeling of Sparse Sensors Measurements for Boundary Layer Transition

Michael Woodward, Yifeng Tian, Yen Ting Lin +5

Understanding, predicting and controlling laminar-turbulent boundary-layer transition is crucial for the next generation aircraft design. However, in real flight experiments, or wi…

physics.flu-dyn2023

Data-Driven Mori-Zwanzig: Approaching a Reduced Order Model for Hypersonic Boundary Layer Transition

Michael Woodward, Yifeng Tian, Arvind Mohan +5

In this work, we apply, for the first time to spatially inhomogeneous flows, a recently developed data-driven learning algorithm of Mori-Zwanzig (MZ) operators, which is based on a…

physics.flu-dyn2022★ 2 cited

Lagrangian Large Eddy Simulations via Physics Informed Machine Learning

Yifeng Tian, Michael Woodward, Mikhail Stepanov +4

High Reynolds Homogeneous Isotropic Turbulence is fully described within the Navier-Stokes (NS) equations, which are notoriously difficult to solve numerically. Engineers, interest…

math.DS2022

Regression-based projection for learning Mori-Zwanzig operators

Yen Ting Lin, Yifeng Tian, Danny Perez +1

We propose to adopt statistical regression as the projection operator to enable data-driven learning of the operators in the Mori--Zwanzig formalism. We present a principled method…

physics.flu-dyn2021

Physics informed machine learning with Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics: Hierarchy of reduced Lagrangian models of turbulence

Michael Woodward, Yifeng Tian, Criston Hyett +4

Building efficient, accurate and generalizable reduced order models of developed turbulence remains a major challenge. This manuscript approaches this problem by developing a hiera…

physics.flu-dyn2021★ 14 cited

Data Driven Learning of Mori-Zwanzig Operators for Isotropic Turbulence

Yifeng Tian, Yen Ting Lin, Marian Anghel +1

Developing reduced-order models for turbulent flows, which contain dynamics over a wide range of scales, is an extremely challenging problem. In statistical mechanics, the Mori-Zwa…

physics.flu-dyn2021

Physics-Informed Machine Learning of the Lagrangian Dynamics of Velocity Gradient Tensor

Yifeng Tian, Daniel Livescu, Michael Chertkov

Reduced models describing the Lagrangian dynamics of the Velocity Gradient Tensor (VGT) in Homogeneous Isotropic Turbulence (HIT) are developed under the Physics-Informed Machine L…

cond-mat.stat-mech2021

Data-driven learning for the Mori-Zwanzig formalism: a generalization of the Koopman learning framework

Yen Ting Lin, Yifeng Tian, Marian Anghel +1

A theoretical framework which unifies the conventional Mori-Zwanzig formalism and the approximate Koopman learning is presented. In this framework, the Mori-Zwanzig formalism, deve…

physics.flu-dyn2019★ 25 cited

Density Effects on the Post-shock Turbulence Structure and Dynamics

Yifeng Tian, Farhad A. Jaberi, Daniel Livescu

Turbulence structure resulting from multi-fluid or multi-species, variable-density isotropic turbulence interaction with a Mach 2 shock is studied using turbulence-resolving shock-…