Education

Ph.D.,   Fluid Mechanics, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 2011

M.S.,     Fluid Mechanics, Beihang University (BUAA), China, 2006

B.S.,     Spacecraft Design and Engineering, Beihang University (BUAA), China, 2003

Biography
Dr. Gao joined the faculty of the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Sichuan University as Associate Professor in fluid mechanics in November 2014. Prior to his appointment at Sichuan University, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Dr. Gao received his B.S. degree Spacecraft Design and Engineering from Beihang University (BUAA) in 2003 and Ph.D. degree in Fluid Mechanics from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore in 2011. His research interests centre around the vortex dynamics in various complex flow phenomena that originated from aerospace, environmental, and biological applications.

Research Areas

Vortex dynamics, Jets and plumes, Hydrodynamic stability, Applied mathematics

Teaching Interests

Dr. Gao's teaching interests include undergraduate classes in fundamentals of aerodynamics and experimental fluid mechanics, and graduate courses in viscous fluid mechanics and gasdynamics.

Grants and Projects

1.     Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AICV), 2017, Principle Investigator, “Development of simulation database for the digital wind tunnel.”

2.     Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), 2016-2018, Principle Investigator (PI), “Theory and model of vortex ring evolution in starting buoyant jets.”

Selected Publications

· Journal

1. Guo, H. F., Gao, L.* & Yu, S. C. M. 2020 Vortex formation in starting buoyant jets at moderate Richardson numbers. Phys. Fluids 32(11), 117107.

2. Gao, L.*, Wang, X., Yu, S. C. M. & Chyu, M. K. 2020 Development of the impulse and thrust for laminar starting jets with finite discharged volume. J. Fluid Mech.902, A27.

3. Gao, L., Guo, H. F.* & Yu, S. C. M. 2020 A general definition of formation time for starting jets and forced plumes at low Richardson number. J. Fluid Mech. 886, A6.

4. Gao, L.* & Yu, S. C. M. 2016 Vortex ring formation in starting forced plumes with negative and positive buoyancy. Phys. Fluids 28(11), 113601.

5. Gao, L. & Yu, S. C. M.* 2016 Formation of leading vortex pair in two-dimensional starting jets. AIAA J. 54(4), 1364-1369.

6. Wang, J. J., Pan, C., Choi, K. S.*, Gao, L. & Lian, Q. X. 2013 Formation, growth and instability of vortex pairs in an axisymmetric stagnation flow. J. Fluid Mech. 725, 681-708.

7. Gao, L.* & Yu, S. C. M. 2012 Development of the trailing shear layer in a starting jet during pinch-off. J. Fluid Mech. 700, 382-405.

8. Gao, L.* & Yu, S. C. M. 2010 A model for the pinch-off process of the leading vortex ring in a starting jet. J. Fluid Mech. 656, 205–222.

· Book/Chapter

1. Gao, L.* & Yu, S. C. M. 2015 Chapter 1: Starting Jets and vortex ring pinch-off. in Vortex rings and jets (ed. by New, D. T. H. & Yu. S. C.), Springer.