Publications
H. Hwang, W. H. R. Chan, S. S. Jain and S. I. Abarzhi. "Scale-dependent Rayleigh-Taylor dynamics with variable acceleration in a finite-sized domain for three-dimensional flows." Physics of Fluids 33, 092108 (2021); https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0059898
S. Mirjalili and W. H. R. Chan. "Linear stability of a thin fluid film interacting with its surrounding bulk fluid." Physics of Fluids 33, 072104 (2021); https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0056855
W. H. R. Chan. "The bubble breakup cascade in turbulent breaking waves and its implications on subgrid-scale modeling." (Ph.D. thesis, December 2020, permanent link to dissertation with digital content)
W. H. R. Chan, M. S. Dodd, P. L. Johnson and P. Moin. "Identifying and tracking bubbles and drops in simulations: a toolbox for obtaining sizes, lineages, and breakup and coalescence statistics." Journal of Computational Physics 432, 110156 (2021); https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2021.110156 (arXiv preprint)
W. H. R. Chan, P. L. Johnson and P. Moin. “The turbulent bubble break-up cascade in breaking waves. Part 1. Theoretical developments.” Journal of Fluid Mechanics 912, A42 (2021); https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2020.1083 (arXiv preprint)
W. H. R. Chan, P. L. Johnson, P. Moin and J. Urzay. “The turbulent bubble break-up cascade in breaking waves. Part 2. Numerical simulations.” Journal of Fluid Mechanics 912, A43 (2021); https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2020.1084 (arXiv preprint)
W. H. R. Chan*, S. Mirjalili*, S. S. Jain, J. Urzay, A. Mani and P. Moin. "Birth of microbubbles in turbulent breaking waves." Physical Review Fluids 4, 100508; https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.4.100508 (invited article, 2019). (video submission)
M. Wildemeersch*, W. H. R. Chan*, E. Rovenskaya and T. Q. S. Quek. "Characterization and Control of Conservative and Non-conservative Network Dynamics." IFAC Journal of Systems and Control 5, 22-29 (2018); https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacsc.2018.07.002 (arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.06738v1 [cs.SI])
V.-T. Nguyen, W. H. R. Chan and H. H. Nguyen. "Numerical investigation of wake induced vibrations of cylinders in tandem arrangement at subcritical Reynolds numbers." Ocean Engineering 154, 341-356 (2018); https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2018.01.073
B. Figliuzzi, W. H. R. Chan, C. R. Buie and J. L. Moran. "Nonlinear electrophoresis in the presence of dielectric decrement." Physical Review E 94, 023115 (2016); https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.94.023115
W. H. R. Chan, P. Zhang, I. Nevat, S. G. Nagarajan, A. C. Valera, H. Tan and N. Gautam. "Adaptive Duty Cycling in Sensor Networks with Energy Harvesting." IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications 33 (12), 2687-2700 (2015); https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JSAC.2015.2478717
B. Figliuzzi, W. H. R. Chan, J. Moran and C. R. Buie. "Nonlinear electrophoresis of ideally polarizable particles." Physics of Fluids 26, 102002 (2014); https://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4897262
W. H. R. Chan. "Non-linear electrophoresis of ideally polarizable particles." (S.B. thesis, June 2014, PDF)