Journal papers

Fluid Mechanics:

1. Wang G, Zhang J, Yao J. Scale interactions in opposition-controlled turbulent channel flow [J]. Physics of Fluids, 2026, 38(4): 045141.

2. Zhang J, Hussain F, Yao J. Direct numerical simulations of out-scale-actuated spanwise wall oscillation in turbulent boundary layers[J].Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2026, 1033: A28.

3. Lei G, Yao J, Xiao D, Ren J, Mao X. Feature-based modal decomposition of non-stationary flows[J]. Physics of Fluids, 2025, 37(12): 127104.

4. Wang C, Li M, Ying Y, Dong J, Yao J. Revisiting streak reorientation in a turbulent channel flow subjected to spanwise oscillating walls[J]. Physics of Fluids, 2025, 37(11): 115123.

5. Gao P, Yao J. Energy and enstrophy cascade during reconnection of orthogonally interacting vortex tubes[J]. Physics of Fluids, 2025, 37(11): 113108.

6. Yao J, García E, Hussain F. Drag reduction via opposition control in turbulent channel flows at high Reynolds numbers[J]. Physical Review Fluids, 2025, 10(9): 094604.

7. Li Q, Chen Y, Xiao D, Mao X, Yao J. Characterization of the quiescent momentum and thermal cores in compressible turbulent channel flows[J]. Physical Review Fluids, 2025, 10(6): 064612.

8. Zhang J, Dan X, Yao J. Reynolds number effect on drag control via spanwise wall oscillation in turbulent boundary layers[J]. Physics of Fluids, 2025, 37(4): 045157.

9. García E, Hussain F, Yao J, Stout E. Wall turbulence perturbed by a bump with organized small-scale roughness: coherent structure analysis[J]. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2025, 1006: A6.

10. Dong L, Zhang W, Ren J, Yang X, Xiao D, Yao J, Mao X. Transition of counter-rotating plasma-induced vortices into a jet[J]. Physics of Fluids, 2025, 37(1): 017174.

11. Massaro D, Yao J, Rezaeiravesh S, Schlatter P, Hussain F. Energy-based characterisation of large-scale coherent structures in turbulent pipe flows[J]. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2024, 996: A45.

12. Duan P, Chen X, Ji Y, Yao J, Hussain F. Large-scale control in turbulent flows over surface riblets[J]. Physics of Fluids, 2024, 36(9).

13. Shen W, Yao J, Yang Y. Designing turbulence with entangled vortices[J]. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2024, 121(35): e2405351121.

14. Hussain F, García E, Yao J, Stout E. Wall turbulence perturbed by a bump with organized small-scale roughness: flow statistics[J]. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2024, 989: A13.

15. Zhu Y, Sun Q, Xiao D, Yao J, Mao X. Compressed neural networks for reduced order modeling[J]. Physics of Fluids, 2024, 36(5).

16. Shen W, Yao J, Hussain F, Yang Y. Role of internal structures within a vortex in helicity dynamics[J]. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2023, 970: A26.

17. Yao J, Hussain F. Study of compressible turbulent plane Couette flows via direct numerical simulation[J]. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2023, 964: A29.

18. Yao J, Rezaeiravesh S, Schlatter P, Hussain F. Direct numerical simulations of turbulent pipe flow up to Re_\tau = 5200[J]. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2023, 956: A18.

19. Yao J, Chen X, Hussain F. Direct numerical simulations of open channel flows at moderately high Reynolds numbers[J]. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2022, 953: A19.

20. Yao J, Shen W, Hussain F, Yang Y. Helicity dynamics in viscous vortex links[J]. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2022, 944: A41.

21. Shen W, Yao J, Hussain F, Yang Y. Topology transition and helicity conversion of vortex knots and links[J]. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2022, 943: A41.

22. Yao J, Hussain F. Vortex reconnection and turbulence cascade[J]. Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 2022, 54: 317–347.

23. Yao J, Hussain F. Drag reduction via opposition control in a compressible turbulent channel[J]. Physical Review Fluids, 2021, 6(11): 114603.

24. Ji Y, Yao J, Hussain F, Chen X. Vorticity transports in turbulent channels under large-scale control via spanwise wall jet forcing[J]. Physics of Fluids, 2021, 33(9): 095112.

25. Yao J, Yang Y, Hussain F. Dynamics of a trefoil knotted vortex[J]. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2021, 923: A19.

26. Yao J, Hussain F. Polarized vortex reconnection[J]. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2021, 922: A19.

27. Yao J, Chen X, Hussain F. Composite active drag control in turbulent channel flow[J]. Physical Review Fluids, 2021, 6(5): 054605.

28. Chen X, Yao J, Hussain F. Theoretical framework for energy flux analysis of channels under drag control[J]. Physical Review Fluids, 2021, 6(1): 013902.

29. Yao J, Hussain F. Turbulence statistics and coherent structures in compressible channel flow[J]. Physical Review Fluids, 2020, 5: 084603.

30. Yao J, Hussain F. Separation scaling for viscous vortex reconnection[J]. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2020, 900: R4.

31. Yao J, Hussain F. On singularity formation via viscous vortex reconnection[J]. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2020, 888: R2.

32. Yao J, Hussain F. A physical model of turbulence cascade via vortex reconnection sequence and avalanche[J]. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2020, 883: A51.

33. Yao J, Hussain F. Supersonic turbulent boundary layer drag control using spanwise wall oscillation[J]. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2019, 880: 388–429.

34. Yao J, Chen X, Hussain F. Reynolds number effect on drag control via spanwise wall oscillation in turbulent channel flows[J]. Physics of Fluids, 2019, 31(8): 085108.

35. Yao J, Hussain F. Toward vortex identification based on local pressure-minimum criterion in compressible and variable density flows[J]. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2018, 850: 5–17.

36. Yao J, Chen X, Hussain F. Drag control in wall-bounded turbulent flows via spanwise opposed wall-jet forcing[J]. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2018, 852: 678–709.

37. Yao J, Chen X, Thomas F, Hussain F. Large-scale control strategy for drag reduction in turbulent channel flows[J]. Physical Review Fluids, 2017, 2(6): 062601.

Geophysics:

1. J Yao, AC Lesage, F Hussain, DJ Kouri, Forward scattering and Volterra renormalization for acoustic wavefield propagation in vertically varying media Communications in Computational Physics 20 (2), 353-373, (2016) [Link to full text]

2. J Yao, T Zhu, F Hussain, DJ Kouri, Locally solving fractional Laplacian viscoacoustic wave equation using Hermite distributed approximating functional method Geophysics 82 (2), T59-T67, (2016) [Link to full text]

3. AC Lesage, J Yao, F Hussain, DJ Kouri, Low-frequency reflection-data augmentation by an inpainting method: 1D acoustic media Geophysics 80 (4), R139-R153 (2015) [Link to full text]

4. J Yao, AC Lesage, BG Bodmann, F Hussain, DJ Kouri, Inverse scattering theory: Inverse scattering series method for one dimensional non-compact support potential Journal of Mathematical Physics 55 (12), 123512, (2014) [Link to full text]

5. J Yao, AC Lesage, BG Bodmann, F Hussain, DJ Kouri, One dimensional acoustic direct nonlinear inversion using the Volterra inverse scattering series Inverse problems 30 (7), 075006 (2014) [Link to full text]

Applied Mathematics:

1. J Yao, CL Williams, F Hussain, D Kouri, Generalized Fourier Transform Method for Solving Nonlinear Anomalous Diffusion Equations Applied Mathematics 10 (12), 1039-1047 (2019) [Link to full text]

2. D Kouri, N Pandya, CL Williams, BG Bodmann, J Yao, Point transformations and relationships among linear anomalous diffusion, normal diffusion and the central limit theorem Applied Mathematics 9 (02), 178-197 (2018) [Link to full text]

3. CC Chou, J Yao, DJ Kouri,  Volterra inverse scattering series method for one‐dimensional quantum barrier scattering International Journal of Quantum Chemistry 117 (17), e25403, (2017) [Link to full text]

Conference papers

1. AC Lesage, J Yao,  R Eftekhar, DJ Kouri, F Hussain 2013 Inverse acoustic scattering series using the Volterra renormalization of the Lippmann-Schwinger equation SEG Expanded Abstracts 2013, 4645-4649 

2. AC Lesage, F Hussain, J Yao, N Wijesinghe, DJ Kouri 2014 Multi-dimensional inverse acoustic scattering series using the Volterra renormalization of the Lippmann-Schwinger equation SEG Expanded Abstracts 2014, 3118-3122 

3. J Yao, D Kouri, T Zhu, F Hussain 2016 Solving fractional Laplacian viscoacoustic wave equation using Hermite distributed approximating functional method SEG Expanded Abstracts 2016, 3966-3971 

4. AC Lesage, F Hussain, J Yao, DJ Kouri 2014  An Hermite distributed approximation functional fitting method to augment reflection data down to zero frequency SEG Expanded Abstracts 2014, 3257-3261 

5. M Ji, D Kouri, T Zhu, J Yao 2017 Using PSPI to accelerate seismic Q modeling based on hermite-distributed approximating functional  SEG Expanded Abstracts 2017, 4091-4096 

6. AC Lesage, J Yao, B Bodmann, F Hussain, DJ Kouri 2015 Data Partionning Method for Convergent Volterra Inverse Scattering Series SEG Expanded Abstracts 2017, 4091-4096 

7. J Yao, AC Lesage, F Hussain, DJ Kouri 2015 One dimensional acoustic reflection data inversion based on Distorted Born Iterative Method SEG Expanded Abstracts 2015, 1472-1478 

8. J Yao, AC Lesage, F Hussain, DJ Kouri 2015 Scattering theory and Volterra renormalization for wave modeling in heterogeneous acoustic media SEG Expanded Abstracts 2015, 3594-3600 

9. X Chen, J Yao, F Hussain 2017 Drag control of wall-bounded turbulent flows Bulletin of the American Physical Society 

10. J Yao, F Hussain 2017 A new vortex definition for compressible and stratified flows APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting Abstracts 

11. F Hussain, J Yao 2018  Evidence of physical turbulence cascade mechanism via reconnection cascade scenario Bulletin of the American Physical Society 

12. J Yao, F Hussain 2018 Mach number effect on drag control via spanwise wall oscillation in wall-bounded turbulent flows Bulletin of the American Physical Society, 63

13. J Yao, F Hussain 2019 Numerical study of polarized viscous vortex reconnection  Bulletin of the American Physical Society, 64

14. X Chen, J Yao, F Hussain 2019 Reynolds number effect on drag control via spanwise wall oscillation in turbulent channel flows.  Bulletin of the American Physical Society, 64

15. J Yao, F Hussain 2020 Universal separation scaling for vortex reconnection in classical and quantum fluids Bulletin of the American Physical Society, 65