Education Background
1998.8-2003.8 PhD, Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University, USA
1993.9-1998.6 PhD, Department of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering,
Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
1989.9-1993.7 BE, Department of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering,
Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
Work Experiences
2014.12-present Professor, Center for Combustion Engineering, Tsinghua University
2006.8-2014.12 Research Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Goettingen, Germany
2003.8-2006.7 Postdoc, Department of Physics, Cornell University, USA
2003.1-2003.5 Instructor, Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University, USA
Other Professional Positions
Editorial board member of New Journal of Physics
Member of American Physical Society
Research Areas and Interests
Turbulence, Fluid Experiment and Measurement Science, Two-phase Flows
Honors and Awards
Keynote Speaker, the 14th European Turbulence Conference (ETC14), (2013)
Invited Speaker, the March Meeting of the American Physical Society (2008)
Excellence in Teaching, Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University (2003)
Books and Patents
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Journal Publications
A. Pumir, H. Xu, G. Boffetta, G. Falkovich, and E. Bodenschatz, 2014. Redistribution of kinetic energy in turbulent flows. Phys. Rev. X 4:041006.
H. Xu, A. Pumir, G. Falkovich, E. Bodenschatz, M. Shats, H. Xia, N. Francois, and G. Boffetta, 2014. Flight-crash events in turbulence. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 111:7558–7563.
H.-D. Xi, E. Bodenschatz, and H. Xu, 2013. Elastic energy flux by flexible polymers in fluid turbulence. Phys. Rev. Lett. 111:024501.
A. Pumir, E. Bodenschatz, and H. Xu, 2013. Tetrahedron deformation and alignment of perceived vorticity and strain in a turbulent flow. Phys. Fluids, 25:035101.
H. Xu, A. Pumir, and E. Bodenschatz, 2011. The pirouette effect in turbulent flows. Nature Physics 7:709–712.
H. Xu, R. Verberg, D.L. Koch, and M.Y. Louge. 2009. Dense, bounded shear flows of agitated spheres in a gas at intermediate Stokes and finite Reynolds number. J. Fluid Mech. 618:181– 208.
H. Xu. 2008. Tracking Lagrangian trajectories in position-velocity space. Meas. Sci. Technol. 19:075105.
H. Xu, N. T. Ouellette, D. Vincenzi, and E. Bodenschatz, 2007. Acceleration correlations and pressure structure functions in high-Reynolds number turbulence. Phys. Rev. Lett. 99:204501.
M. Bourgoin, N. T. Ouellette, H. Xu, J. Berg, and E. Bodenschatz, 2006. The role of pair dispersion in turbulent flow. Science 311:835–838.
H. Xu, A. Reeves, and M. Louge, 2004. Measurement errors in the mean and fluctuation velocities of spherical grains from a computer analysis of digital images. Rev. Sci. Instru. 75:811–819.