Dr Yongyun Hwang

Career

• 2012-Present: Marie Curie post doctoral research fellow, DAMTP, University of Cambridge
• 2011-2012: Post doctoral research associate, LadHyX, Ecole Polytechnique, France
• 2008-2010: PhD, Laboratoire d'Hydrodynamique (LadHyX), Ecole Polytechnique, France

Research interest

Yongyun is a Marie Curie post doctoral research fellow of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. His main research interests are flow instabilities, turbulence and their control in physical and biological fluid systems.

Selected Publications

• Y. Hwang 'Near-wall turbulent fluctuations in the absence of the wide outer motions', 2013, J. Fluid Mech., To appear.
• Y. Hwang & A. I. Barakat ‘Dynamics of mechanical signal transmission through prestressed stress
  fibers’, 2012, PLoS ONE, 7(4), e35343.
• Y. Hwang & C. Cossu ‘Linear non-normal energy amplification of harmonic and stochastic forcing
  in the turbulent channel flow’, 2010, J. Fluid Mech., 664, p51.
• Y. Hwang & C. Cossu ‘Self-sustained process at large scale in turbulent channel flow’, 2010, Phys.
  Rev. Lett., 105, 044505.
• Y. Hwang & C. Cossu ‘Amplification of coherent streaks in the turbulent Couette flow: an input-output analysis at low Reynolds numbers’, 2010, J. Fluid Mech., 643, p333
• Y. Hwang & H. Choi ‘Control of absolute instability by basic-flow modification in a parallel wake
  at low Reynolds number’, 2006, J. Fluid Mech., 560, p465.