Yuan N. Young

Research
Main research focuses
  1. Fluid-structure interactions in Stokes flow
    • Soft lubrication flow and squeezing hydrodynamics in confinement
    • Active colloids, droplets and squirmer/swimmer in Stokes flow
    • Reinforcement training of a Stokesian swimmer
    • Numerical algorithms for simulating fluid-structure interactions
  2. Cellular mechanics with hydrodynamic interactions
    • Primary cilium: from its microstructures to its mechanosensing functions/roles
    • Microtubule-mediated dynamics of centrosomes and nucleus
  3. Electrohydrodynamics of a moving boundary
    • From electrokinetic theory to leaky dielectric theory
    • Electrohydrodynamics of vesicle and viscous drop
    • Electrohydrodynamics in soft lubrication flow
  4. Poroelastic hydrodynamics
    • Deformation of a hydrogel drop
    • Boundary conditions at a gel-fluid interface
PhD research
  1. Mixing in Rayleigh-Taylor flow and Kolmogorov flow