Publications

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2025

  1. Tan, S., Zhong, S., Xu, X., Qi, Y., & Ni, R. (2025). Pair dispersion of bubbles in isotropic turbulence. Physical Review Letters, 135(21), 214003.
  2. Qi, Y.*, Shin, S., & Coletti, F. (2025). Breakup and coalescence of particle aggregates at the interface of turbulent liquids. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 1021, A49.
  3. Tan, S., Zhong, S., Qi, Y., Xu, X., & Ni, R. (2025). Dynamics of bubble collision and coalescence in three-dimensional turbulent flows. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 1020, A15.
  4. Rubio, J. S., Rodrigues, N. S., Qi, Y., Patel, M., Gorman, M. T., Diaz Lopez, M. X., Capecelatro, J., Danehy, P. M., & Ni, R. (2025). Dusty streaks on the Moon: fingerprints of multiphase flow instabilities. Nature Communications, 16, 6670. (Featured in The Debrief and Mirage News)
  5. Xu, X., Tan, S., Qi, Y., & Ni, R. (2025). Experimental investigation of turbulence modulation by deformable bubbles. Physical Review Fluids, 10, 033605.
  6. Qi, Y.*, Li, Y., & Coletti, F. (2025). Small-scale dynamics and structure of free-surface turbulence. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 1007, A3.
  7. Qi, Y.*, Xu, Z., & Coletti, F. (2025). Restricted Euler dynamics in free-surface turbulence. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 1002, A38.

2024

  1. Xu, X., Qi, Y. (co-first author), Zhong, S., Tan, S., Wu, Q., & Ni, R. (2024). Intermittency of bubble deformation in turbulence. Physical Review Letters, 133, 214001.
  2. Li, Y., Wang, Y., Qi, Y., & Coletti, F. (2024). Relative dispersion in free-surface turbulence. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 993, R2. (Highlighted by the JFM Rapids Editorial Board)
  3. Qi, Y., Xu, X., Tan, S., Zhong, S., Wu, Q., & Ni, R. (2024). Breaking bubbles across multiple timescales in turbulence. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 983, A24.

Before 2023

  1. Qi, Y., Meneveau, C., Voth, G., & Ni, R. (2023). Folding dynamics and its intermittency in turbulence. Physical Review Letters, 130, 154001. (Published as the cover article)
  2. Tan, S., Xu, X., Qi, Y., & Ni, R. (2022). Scalings and decay of homogeneous, nearly isotropic turbulence behind a jet array. Physical Review Fluids, 8, 024603. (Selected as Editors’ Suggestion)
  3. Qi, Y., Tan, S., Corbitt, N., Urbanik, C., Salibindla, A., & Ni, R. (2022). Fragmentation in turbulence by small eddies. Nature Communications, 13, 469. (Featured in JHU Hub and Phys.org)
  4. Masuk, A., Qi, Y. (co-first author), Salibindla, A., & Ni, R. (2021). Towards a phenomenological model on the deformation and orientation dynamics of finite-sized bubbles. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 920, A4.
  5. Qi, Y., Masuk, A., & Ni, R. (2020). Towards a model of bubble breakup in turbulence through experimental constraints. International Journal of Multiphase Flow, 132, 103397.
  6. Qi, Y., Lu, J., Scardovelli, R., Zaleski, S., & Tryggvason, G. (2019). Computing curvature in the volume of fluid methods using machine learning. Journal of Computational Physics, 377, 155–161.