Publications

Following are selected peer-reviewed journal and conference papers, and thesis. Students mentored are highlighted in #.

At ASU

• Ma L., Mungekar M.#, Roychowdhury V., Jawed M.K. "Rapid design of fully soft deployable structures via kirigami cuts and active learning''. Advanced Materials Technologies.  [DOI] [Machine learning, Soft robotics, Structural mechanics]

Prior to ASU

• Ma L., Mungekar M.#, Roychowdhury V., Jawed M.K. "Rapid design of fully soft deployable structures via kirigami cuts and active learning''. Submitted to Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. [DOI] [Machine learning, Soft robotics, Structural mechanics]

• Lee Y.#, Ma L. , Jawed M.K.  "Deep spring: inverse design of suspended elastic rods using neural networks''. Submitted to International Journal of Solids and Structures. [DOI] [Machine learning, Soft robotics, Structural mechanics]

• Mungekar M.#, Ma L. , Jawed M.K., Vwani Roychowdhury. 2023.  "Design of bistable soft deployable structures via a Kirigami-inspired planar fabrication approach''. Advanced Materials Technologies. [DOI][Soft robotics, Structural mechanics]

• Ma L. *, Resvanis T.,Vandiver J.K. 2022. "The influence of mode dominance and traveling waves in flexible cylinder flow-induced vibration.'' Ocean Engineering, 264, 111750. [DOI][Machine learning, Fluid-structure interaction]

• Gao, Y., Jiang, Z.#, Ma L. *, Fu, S., He, G., Shi, C. 2022. "Numerical study of vortex-induced vibrations of a circular cylinder at different incidence angles''. Ocean Engineering, 259, 111858. [DOI] [Fluid-structure interaction, Computational fluid dynamics]

•  Ma L. *, Resvanis T., Vandiver J.K. 2022. "Understanding the higher harmonics of vortex-induced vibration response using a trend-constrained, machine learning approach''.  Marine Structures . Volume 83. 103195 [DOI] [Machine learning, Fluid-structure interaction]

• Ma L. , Lin K., Fan D., Triantafyllou M.S. 2022. "Flexible cylinder flow-induced vibration''. Physics of Fluids. 34(1): 011302 (Featured article) [DOI][Machine learning, Fluid-structure interaction]

• Ma L. *. 2022. "Interpretable machine learning for insight extraction from rigid cylinder flow-induced vibration phenomena''. Applied Ocean Research. Volume 119. 102975. [DOI] [Machine learning, Fluid-structure interaction]

• Zhang M. #, Fu S., Ma L. , 2022. "A hybrid FEM-DNN-based vortex-induced vibration prediction method for flexible pipes under oscillatory flow''.  Ocean Engineering. 246: 110488 [DOI] [Machine learning, Fluid-structure interaction]

• Ma L. *, Resvanis T.L., Vandiver J.K., 2021. "Enhancing machine learning models with prior physical knowledge to aid in VIV response prediction''. International Conference on Ocean, Offshore & Arctic Engineering. OMAE.[DOI] [Machine learning, Fluid-structure interaction]

• Ma L.*, Resvanis T.L., Vandiver J.K., 2020. "A weighted sparse-input neural network technique applied to identify important features for vortex-induced vibration''. AAAI spring symposium on Combining Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning with Physics Sciences. March 23-25, 2020. Stanford University. [DOI][Machine learning, Fluid-structure interaction]

• Ma L.*, Resvanis T.L., Vandiver J.K., 2020. "Using machine learning to identify important parameters for flow-induced vibration''. International Conference on Ocean, Offshore  & Arctic Engineering. OMAE. [DOI][Machine learning, Fluid-structure interaction]

• Vandiver J.K., Ma L., Rao Z., 2018. "Revealing the effects of damping on the flow-induced vibration of flexible cylinders''. Journal of Sound and Vibration. Volume 433, 29-54. [DOI] [Structural mechanics, Fluid-structure interaction]

• Vandiver J.K., Ma L., 2017. "Does more tension reduce VIV?'' International Conference on Ocean, Offshore & Arctic Engineering. OMAE. [DOI][Structural mechanics, Fluid-structure interaction]

• Ma L., Fu S., Moan T., Li R., 2016. "A hybrid empirical-numerical method for hydroelastic analysis of a floater-and-net system''. Journal of Ship Research. 60(1), 14-29. [DOI][Structural mechanics, Fluid-structure interaction, Towing tank experiment]

• Hu K.#, Fu S.,  Ma L., Song L., 2016. "Nonlinear hydrodynamics of a floating cylinder in oscillatory flow alone and combined with a current''. Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering. 04016015. [DOI][[Structural mechanics, Fluid-structure interaction, Towing tank experiment]

• Song L., Fu S., Cao J., Ma L., Wu J.Q., 2016. "An investigation into the hydrodynamics of a flexible riser undergoing vortex-induced vibration''.  Journal of Fluids and Structures. 63, 325-350. [DOI] [Machine learning, Fluid-structure interaction]

Thesis

• Ma L. "Understanding flow-induced vibration via a physics-constrained, data-driven approach", Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2021) [DOI]