Past research mentees Troy Tsubota and Zhiwei Dave Li will respectively start their Ph.D. study at Harvard University and the University of Chicago in Fall 2025, congratulations!

One journal article “Traveling spatially localized convective structures in an inclined porous medium” has been published in Physical Review Fluids. 10, 034402 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.10.034402

Zhengyang Wei was awarded the 2025 UConn Summer Undergraduate Research Fund (SURF) Awards! Congratulations!

Dr. Liu gave a seminar talk at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Applied Math Seminar. Thank you Binan Gu for hosting me. 

Dr. Liu will co-organize a minisymposium “Geophysical Fluid Dynamics” at SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems (DS25) in Denver, May 11-15, 2025. Check the schedule for Part I, Part II, and Part III of this minisymposium.

One conference paper “A structured input-output approach to evaluating the effects of uniform wall-suction on optimal perturbations in transitional boundary layers” was published in 2024 IEEE 63rd Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)

https://access-ci.org/scientists-use-access-resources-to-study-heat-patterns-in-tilted-porous-layers/

Zhengyang Wei was selected as 2025 University Scholar. This is the highest academic honor that the University of Connecticut bestows upon an undergraduate student at graduation.

Duc Nguyen was selected as Early Bird Awardee of 100+1 New England Complex Fluids Conference.