Publications & Media

Research improves services and treatments not just for you but also for future generations.

Journal Papers

10. Yang A.J.K.  & Timmermans M.-L. (2024). Assessing the effective settling of milled particles in the ocean for the purposes of ocean-based carbon-dioxide removal, Environmental Research Letters.

9. Yang A.J.K., Timmermans M.-L. & Lawrence G.A. (2024). Asymmetric Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities in stratified shear flows, Physical Review Fluids

8. Yang A.J.K., Olsthoorn J. & Timmermans M.L. (2023). Sedimentation in particle-laden flows with and without velocity shear, Physics of Fluids (Featured article)

7. Yang A.J.K., Tedford E.W., Olsthoorn, J. & Lawrence G.A. (2022). Sensitivity of wave merging and mixing to initial perturbations in Holmboe instabilities, Physics of Fluids

6. Yang A.J.K., Tedford E.W., Olsthoorn J. & Lawrence G.A. (2022). Asymmetric Holmboe instabilities in arrested salt-wedge flows, Physics of Fluids

5. Yang A.J.K., Tedford E.W., Olsthoorn J., Lefauve A. & Lawrence G.A. (2022). Velocity perturbations and Reynolds stresses in Holmboe instabilities, Physics of Fluids (Featured article).

4. Yang A.J.K., Tedford E.W. & Lawrence G.A. (2019). The spatial evolution of velocity and density profiles in an arrested intrusion, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Letters (Invited article).

3. Yang A.J.K., Chan S.N., Lee J.H.W. & Zhang, X.R. (2019). Integral model of a reacting chlorine jet in ammonia nitrogen and treated primary effluent, Journal of Hydro-environmental Research

2. Yang A.J.K., Timmermans M,L, Olsthoorn, J. & A. Kaminski., The influence of stratified shear instabilities on sedimentation in particle-laden flows in three-dimensional simulations, Physical Review Fluids (In preparation)

1. Yang A.J.K., Rahmani M., & Timmermans M.-L. Settling of Lagrangian particles in stratified Kelvin–Helmholtz instability and turbulence (In preparation)


Conferences and Media

*: student author under my supervision

14. Yang A.J.K., Timmermans M.-L. & Olsthoorn J. The influence of shear on the effective settling of mineral particles in the ocean with application to ocean based carbon-dioxide removal, Ocean Sciences Meeting 2024, New Orleans, LA, USA.

13. Yang A.J.K., Timmermans M.-L. & Olsthoorn J. Ocean based CO2 removal with enhanced mineral weathering: the effective settling of milled particles from particle-laden flows, The 76th Bulletin of American Physical Society 2023, Washington, DC, USA.

12. Lawrence G.A., & Yang A.J.K., Development, evaluation and application of an approximate equation of state for brackish waters at or near the temperature of maximum density, AGU Fall Meeting 2023, San Francisco, USA.

11. Curtis P.*, Timmermans M.-L. & Yang A.J.K. Understanding the relative roles of diffusion and mechanical mixing in the Canada Basin's upper halocline heat budget, The changing Beaufort Gyre Workshop, WHOI, Woods Hole, USA.

10. Yang A.J.K., Olsthoorn J. & Timmermans M.-L., Enhanced sedimentation in particle-laden flows with and without velocity shear, IAGLR's 66th Annual Conference on Great Lakes Research 2023, Toronto, Canada.

9. Yang A.J.K., Tedford E.W., Olsthoorn J., Lefauve A. & Lawrence G.A., The anisotropy of symmetric Holmboe instabilities in stratified flows, The 9th International Symposium on Environmental Hydraulics 2021, Seoul, Republic of Korea (online). 

8. Yang A.J.K., Tedford E.W., Olsthoorn J., Lefauve A. & Lawrence G.A., The anisotropy of symmetric Holmboe waves, The 73rd Bulletin of American Physical Society 2020, Chicago, USA (online).  

7. Yang A.J.K., & Lawrence G.A., Internal hydraulics of surface buoyant jets with high aspect ratio, EGU General Assembly 2020 (online).

6. Yang A.J.K., Tedford E.W., Olsthoorn J. & Lawrence G.A., Shear instabilities in laboratory arrested salt-wedge flows, The 72nd Bulletin of American Physical Society 2019, Seattle, USA.

5. Qiu C.*, Yang A.J.K., Tedford E.W., Olsthoorn J. & Lawrence G.A., The two faces of Holmboe instabilities, V0014, Gallery of Fluid Motion, American Physical Society, 2019. 

 Note this is an art & science combined video available online: https://gfm.aps.org/meetings/dfd-2019/5d686303199e4c429a9b2a38

4. Yang A.J.K., Tedford E.W., Olsthoorn J. & Lawrence G.A., Nonsymmetric Holmboe instabilities in arrested salt-wedge flows, Gordon Research Conference on Coastal Ocean Dynamics, 2019, New Hampshire, USA.

3. Yang A.J.K., Tedford E.W. & Lawrence G.A., Nonsymmetric Holmboe instabilities in arrested salt-wedge flows, The 21st Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference 2018, Adelaide, Australia. p. 412-416. (award the travel grant)

2. Yang A.J.K., Chan S.N. & Lee J.H.W., Modelling of dense chlorine jet discharging into ammonia nitrogen solution, The 8th International Symposium on Environmental Hydraulics 2018, Indiana, USA. p. 123-126.

1. Yang A.J.K., Chan S.N., Choi K.W. & Lee J.H.W., Study of a vertical dense chlorine jet into treated sewage, International Symposium on Outfall Systems 2016, Ottawa, Canada, p. 1-7.

Other Publications

3. Yang A.J.K. (2022) Symmetric and asymmetric Holmboe instabilities in stratified shear flows, PhD. thesis.  

2. Yang A.J.K. (2017) Mixing and rapid chlorine demand of a high concentration chlorine jet in stagnant primary treated sewage, Master thesis.

1. Yang A.J.K. (2015) Interaction of water waves with circular cylinders, the best final-year project


Marine CO2 removal

Starting from 2020, Dalhousie University and Halifax city become the north America center for the marine CO2 removal practice. There will be plenty of opportunities for students and researchers working on the project. 

Below are some reports: 

Stratified shear instabilities in American Physics Society