Peer-Reviewed Publications
Park, J., Mangano, M., Seraj, S., Pacini, B., Liao, Y., Knight, B., Naik, K., Maki, K., Martins, J., Sun, J. and Pan, Y. 2026, CFD-based design optimization of a 5 kW ducted hydrokinetic turbine with practical constraints, Renewable Energy, 256, 124304.
Wang, G., Wu, Y., Pan, Y., Momeni, K., Skitka, J., Menemenlis, D., Arbic, B. and Peltier, W. 2025, Impact of wave interference on the consistency relations of internal gravity waves near the ocean bottom, arXiv preprint https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.03355.
Shavit, M., Pusateri, F., Zhang, Z., Pan, Y., Maestrini, D., Onorato, M. and Shatah, J. 2025, Space-time resonances in the spatiotemporal spectrum of nonlinear dispersive waves, arXiv preprint https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.19828.
Wu, B., Onorato, M., Hani, Z. and Pan, Y. 2025, Validity condition of normal form transformation for the β-FPUT system, arXiv preprint https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04831.
Tseng, Z.E., Wu, Y., Menemenlis, D., Wang, G., Ruf, C. and Pan, Y. 2025, Distribution of plastics of various sizes and densities in the global ocean from a 3D Eulerian model, Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans.
Hafezi, S., Gong, X. and Pan, Y. 2025, Efficient estimation of temporal exceeding probability for ship responses in broadband wave fields, https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20271.
Knight, B.G., Mohammadi, Y., Urban, D., Park, J., Liao, Y., Mangano, M., Martins, J., Pan, Y. and Maki, K. 2025, Multifidelity CFD analysis for ducted hydrokinetic turbine design, Renewable Energy.
Wu, Y. and Pan, Y. 2025, Induced diffusion of internal gravity waves: directionality and role in ocean mixing, Journal of Fluid Mechanics.
Wang, G. and Pan, Y. 2025, Data assimilation-based simultaneous phase-resolved ocean wave and ship motion forecast, arXiv preprint https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.13943.
Zhang, Z. and Pan, Y. 2025, Role of triad interactions in spectral evolution of surface gravity waves in deep water, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 1008, A41.
Naik, K., Mangano, M., Knight, B., Seraj, S., Liao, Y., Park, J., Pan, Y., Martins, J., Maki, K.J. and Sun, J. 2025, Experimental performance comparison of ducted and freestream hydrokinetic turbines, Renewable Energy.
Pan, Y., Nazarenko, S. and Shatah, J. 2024, Spectral diffusion of MMT model with condensate in two or higher dimensions, SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, 84(6), 2283–2299.
Simonis, A., Hrabski, A. and Pan, Y. 2024, On the time scales of spectral evolution of nonlinear waves, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 979
Gong, X. and Pan, Y. 2024, Multifidelity Bayesian experimental design to quantify rare-event statistics, SIAM/ASA Journal on Uncertainty Quantification, 12, 101–127.
Hrabski, A. and Pan, Y. 2024, Verification of wave turbulence theory in the kinetic limit, Physical Review Research, 6, 023184.
Xiao, Y., Wang, H. and Pan, Y. 2024, Reachability-based planning of time-optimal curvature-constrained path with moving and deforming obstacles, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 32(6), 2240–2252.
Simonis, A. and Pan, Y. 2024, Transition from weak turbulence to collapse turbulence regimes in the Majda-McLaughlin-Tabak model, Physical Review E, 110, 024202.
Korotkevich, A.O., Nazarenko, S.V., Pan, Y. and Shatah, J. 2024, Non-local gravity wave turbulence in presence of condensate, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 992, A1.
Gong, X. and Pan, Y. 2023, A generalized likelihood-weighted optimal sampling algorithm for rare-event probability quantification, International Journal for Uncertainty Quantification.
Momeni, K., Ma, Y., Peltier, W.R., Menemenlis, D., Thakur, R., Pan, Y., Arbic, B.K., Skitka, J. and Alford, M.H. 2024, Breaking internal waves and ocean diapycnal diffusivity in a high-resolution regional ocean model: Evidence of a wave-turbulence cascade, Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans.
Siyanbola, O.Q., Buijsman, M.C., Delpech, A., Barkan, R., Pan, Y. and Arbic, B.K. 2024, Interactions of remotely generated internal tides with the U.S. West Coast continental margin, Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans.
Skitka, J., Arbic, B.K., Ma, Y., Momeni, K., Pan, Y., Peltier, W.R., Menemenlis, D. and Thakur, R. 2024, Internal-wave dissipation mechanisms and vertical structure in a high-resolution regional ocean model, Geophysical Research Letters.
Hrabski, A. and Pan, Y. 2023, Spontaneous emergence of two-dimensional quasibreathers in a nonlinear Schrödinger equation with nonlocal derivatives, Physical Review E, 108 (5), 054215.
Gong, X., Feng, S. and Pan, Y. 2023, An adaptive multi-fidelity sampling framework for safety analysis of connected and automated vehicles, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation System, Vol.24, Issue 12.
Hrabski, A., Pan, Y., Staffilani, G. and Wilson, B. 2023, On a quasi-resonant nonlinear Schrödinger equation on irrational tori, Abel Symposia.
Skitka, J., Arbic, B.K., Thakur, R., Menemenlis, D., Peltier, W.R., Pan, Y., Momeni, K. and Ma, Y. 2023, Probing the nonlinear interactions of supertidal internal waves using a high-resolution regional ocean model, Journal of Physical Oceanography, DOI 10.1175/JPO-D-22-0236.1.
Wu, Y. and Pan, Y. 2023, Energy cascade in the Garrett-Munk spectrum of internal gravity waves, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 975, A11.
Park. J., Knight, B. G., Liao, Y., Mangano, M., Pacini, B., Maki, K. J., Martins, J.R.R.A., Sun, J. and Pan, Y. 2023, CFD-based Design Optimization of Ducted Hydrokinetic Turbines, Scientific Reports, 13, 1.
Sun, Y., Ruf, C., Bakker, T. and Pan, Y. 2023, Effects of microplastics and surfactants on surface roughness of water waves, Scientific Reports, 13: 1978.
Xiao, Y. and Pan, Y. 2023, Time-Optimal Path Planning in an Evolving Ocean Wave Field based on Reachability Theory, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, vol. 31, issue 4.
Gong, X., and Pan, Y. 2023, Quantification of extreme ship response probability in broadband wave fields, 38th International Workshop on Water Waves and Floating Bodies, May 7-10, Ann Arbor
Zhang, Z. and Pan, Y. 2022, Forward and inverse cascades by exact resonances in surface gravity waves, Physical Review E, 106, 044213
Gong, X., Siavelis, K., Zhang, Z. and Pan, Y. 2022, Efficient computation of temporal exceeding probability of ship responses in a random wave field, Applied Ocean Research, 129
Wang, G., Zhang, J., Ma, Y., Zhang, Q., Li, Z. and Pan, Y. 2022, Phase-resolved ocean wave forecast with simultaneous current estimation through data assimilation, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 949.
Hrabski, A. and Pan, Y. 2022, Breather solutions to a two-dimensional nonlinear Schrödinger equation with non-local derivatives, https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.08155.
Thakur, R., Arbic, B., Menemenlis, D., Momeni, K., Pan, Y., Peltier, W.R., Skitka, J., Alford, M. and Ma, Y. 2022, Impact of vertical mixing parameterizations on internal gravity wave spectra in regional ocean models, Geophysical Research Letters, 49, 16.
Gong, X. and Pan, Y. 2022, Effects of varying initial conditions of ship encountering wave groups in computing extreme motion statistics, 34th Symposium on Naval Hydrodynamics, June 26th - July 1st.
Hrabski, A. and Pan, Y. 2022, On the Properties of Energy Flux in Wave Turbulence, https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.07666, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, A47.
Gong, X., and Pan, Y. 2022, Sequential Bayesian experimental design for estimation of extreme-event probability in stochastic input-to-response systems, https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.11108, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 395, 114974.
Zhou, Z. and Pan, Y. 2022, Numerical investigation of turbulence of surface gravity waves, https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.01189, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 933, A58.
Gong X. and Pan, Y. 2022, Discussion: “Bayesian Optimal Design of Experiments for Inferring the Statistical Expectation of Expensive Black-Box Functions”, Journal of Mechanical Design, 144(5): 055501.
Hrabski, A., Pan, Y., Staffilani, G. and Wilson, B. 2021, Energy transfer for solutions to the nonlinear Schrödinger equation on irrational tori, https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.01459, under revision at Communications in American Mathematics Society.
Xiao, Y., and Pan, Y. 2021, Time-Optimal Path Planning in an Evolving Ocean Wave Field based on Reachability Theory, 60th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control.
Pan, Y., Haley, P.J. and Lermusiaux, P.F.J. 2021, Interaction of internal tide with an inhomogeneous and rotational ocean background, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 920, A18.
Wang, G. and Pan, Y. 2021, Phase-resolved ocean wave forecast with ensemble-based data assimilation, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 918, A19.
Gong, X., Silva, K., Maki, K. and Pan, Y. 2021, Effects of wave nonlinearity on the statistics of wave groups and extreme ship motions, 36th International Workshop on Water Waves and Floating Bodies.
Hrabski, A. and Pan, Y. 2020, The Effect of Discrete Resonant Manifold Structure on Discrete Wave Turbulence, Physical Review E,102, 041101(R)
Pan, Y., Arbic, B.K., Nelson, A.D., Menemenlis, D., Peltier, W.R., Xu, W. and Li, Y. 2020, Numerical investigation of mechanisms underlying oceanic internal gravity wave power-law spectra, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 50.
Pan, Y. 2020, On the model formulations for the interaction of nonlinear waves and currents, Wave motion, 96, 102587.
Pan, Y. 2020, High-order spectral method for the simulation of capillary waves with complete order consistency, Journal of Computational Physics, 408, 109299, 1-12.
Deng, G., Zhang, Z., Li, Y., Liu, H., Xu, W. and Pan, Y. 2020, Prospective of development of large-scale tidal current turbine array: An example numerical investigation of Zhejiang, China, Applied Energy, 264, 114621.
Wang, T., Zavorotny, V., Johnson, J., Yi, Y., Ruf, C., Gleason, S., McKague, D., Hwang, P., Rogers, E., Chen, S., Pan, Y. and Bakker, T., 2020, Improvement of CYGNSS Level 1 Calibration using Modeling and Measurements of Ocean Surface Mean Square Slope, IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Sep 26 - Oct 2, virtual symposium.
Wang, G. and Pan, Y. 2020, Data Assimilation for Phase-Resolved Ocean Wave Forecast, Proceedings of ASME 2020 39th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, Aug 3 - Aug 7, virtual conference.
Gong, X., Zhang, Z., Maki, K. and Pan, Y. 2020, Full Resolution of Extreme Ship Response Statistics, 33rd Symposium on Naval Hydrodynamics, Oct 5 - Oct 8, virtual symposium.
Wang, Y., Pan, Y., Su, C., Srinivasan, A., Gong, J. and Kamp, C. 2018, Performance of Asymmetric Particulate Filter with Soot and Ash Deposits: Analytical Solution and Its Application, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 57(46), 15846–15856.
Pan, Y., Liu, Y. and Yue, D.K.P. 2018, On the high-order perturbation expansions on the study of long-short wave interactions, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 846, 902-915. (PDF)
Pan, Y. and Yue, D.K.P. 2017, Understanding discrete capillary wave turbulence using quasi-resonant kinetic equation, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 816, R1. 1-11. (PDF)
Pan, Y. and Yue, D.K.P. 2015, Decaying capillary wave turbulence under broad-scale dissipation, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 780, R1. 1-11. (PDF)
Pan, Y. and Yue, D.K.P. 2014, Direct numerical investigation of turbulence of capillary waves, Physical Review Letters, 113, 094501.(PDF)
Pan, Y., Dong, X., Zhu, Q. and Yue, D.K.P. 2012, Boundary-element method for the prediction of performance of flapping foils with leading-edge separation, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 698, 446-467. (PDF)
Pan, Y., and Kinnas, S.A. 2011, A viscous/inviscid interactive approach for the prediction of performance of hydrofoils and propellers with non-zero trailing edge thickness, Journal of Ship Research, 55, 1, 45-63. (PDF)
Thesis
Pan, Y., 2016, Understanding of weak turbulence of capillary wave, Ph.D. thesis, MIT (PDF)
Pan, Y., 2009, A viscous/inviscid interactive approach and its application to hydrofoils and propellers with non−zero trailing edge thickness, Master's thesis, University of Texas at Austin (PDF)