Di Zhou
Assistant Professor
Biography
2025-Present
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
2022-2025
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Graduate Aerospace Laboratories,
California Institute of Technology
Education
- PhD, 2022, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame IN
- MS, 2016, Beihang University, China
- BS, 2013, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
Research
- Turbulence
- Aeroacoustics
- Scientific machine learning
- High performance computing
- Computational fluid dynamics
Professional Service
- Member of American Physical Society
- Member of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
- Reviewer for Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Journal of Computational Physics, Physical Review Fluids, and International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow
Awards and Recognitions
- CTR Summer Program Fellowship, Stanford University, 2022
- CRC Award for Computational Sciences and Visualization, University of Notre Dame, 2021
- Notebaert Professional Development Award, University of Notre Dame, 2019
- Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award, University of Notre Dame, 2018
Publications
- Zhou, D., Arun, R., Colonius, T. & Bae, H. J., Grid resolution assessment in wall-modeled large-eddy simulation via velocity gradient partitioning. AIAA SCITECH 2025 FORUM, Jan. 2025.
- Zhou, D., & Bae, H. J., Wall Modeling of turbulent flows with varying pressure gradients using multi-agent reinforcement learning. AIAA Journal, 62:10 (2024), pp. 3713—3727.
- Zhou, D., & Bae, H. J., Sensitivity analysis of wall-modeled large-eddy simulation for separated turbulent flow. Journal of Computational Physics, 506 (2024), pp. 112948.
- Zhou, D., Wang, K. & Wang, M., Rotor aeroacoustic response to an axisymmetric turbulent boundary layer. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 981 (2024), pp. A25.
- Leung, S. C., Zhou, D. & Bae, H. J., Integrated gradients for optimal surface pressure sensor placement for lift prediction of an airfoil subject to gust. AIAA AVIATION FORUM AND ASCEND 2024, July 2024.
- Liu, Y., Zhou, D. & Wang, M., Wall-pressure fluctuations induced by a forward step in a high-Reynolds-number turbulent boundary layer, AIAA 2024-3392. 30th AIAA/CEAS Aeroacoustics Conference, June 2024.
- Zhou, D. & Wang, M., Computational analysis of sound from a rotor ingesting a non-axisymmetric turbulent boundary layer. AIAA AVIATION 2023 FORUM, June 2023.
