Two journal articles, “Structured input–output analysis of compliant wall turbulence” and “Hydrodynamic properties of a flexible pipe in bidirectionally sheared flows undergoing vortex-induced vibration” have been published in Journal of Fluid Mechanics!

Dr. Liu gave three seminars at the University of Rhode Island, the UConn Department of Marine Sciences, and the UConn Department of Mathematics.

Zhengyang and Zekai will join Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Northwestern University as PhD students! Zheng and Leran will both join University of Southern California as a Master student!

Dr. Liu is honored to receive the National Science Foundation CAREER Award!

Dr. Liu gave a seminar at the University of Houston. Thank you for hosting!

Two conference papers “Upper bound of transient growth in accelerating and decelerating wall-driven flows using the Lyapunov method” and “Stability Analysis of Thermohaline Convection With a Time-Varying Shear Flow Using the Lyapunov Method” have been accepted to the American Control Conference 2026!

One journal article, “Spatiotemporal wall pressure forecast of a rectangular cylinder with physics-aware DeepU-Fourier neural network,” has been published in Physics of Fluids!

One journal article, “Nonlinear input-output analysis of transitional shear flows using small-signal finite-gain \(\mathcal{L}_p\) stability”, has been published in Physical Review Fluids!