Xu Yuan
Job Title:
Associate Professor
Research Interests:
Environmental hydrodynamics; River dynamics; Marsh restoration
Email:
yuanxu@sklec.ecnu.edu.cn
xuyuan@mit.edu
Address:
500 Dongchuan Rd. Shanghai 200241.
Education Experience:
Sept. 2016 - Jun. 2022, Department of Hydraulic Engineering, Tsinghua University, PhD
Sep. 2019 – Oct. 2020, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Visiting PhD student
Sep. 2012 - Jun. 2016, Dayu College, Hohai University, Bachelor
Work Experience:
Oct. 2022-, Stake Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research, Associate Professor
Paper:
1. Xu Y*, Esposito C R, Burgos M B, et al. Competing effects of vegetation on sedimentation in deltaic marshes[J]. Nature Communications, 2022, 13(1): 1-10.
2. Xu Y*, Li D, Nepf H. Sediment pickup rate in bare and vegetated channels[J]. Geophysical Research Letters, 2022, 49, e2022GL101279.
3. Xu Y*, Nepf H. Suspended sediment concentration profile in a Typha latifolia canopy[J]. Water Resources Research, 2021, 57(9): e2021WR029902.
4. Xu Y*, Nepf H. Measured and predicted turbulent kinetic energy in flow through emergent vegetation with real plant morphology[J]. Water Resources Research, 2020, 56(12): e2020WR027892.
5. Xu Y, Zhu D, Meng Z, et al. Experimental study on bed load transport in the armoring process [J]. Advances in Water Science, 2018, 29(3): 339-347. (In Chinese with English Abstract).
6. Xu Y, Wang T, Wu Y, et al. PCA-Entropy weight coefficient evaluation model of channel sediment treatment schemes for Beilun port in Ningbo city [J]. Water Resources and Power, 2015, 33(003): 92-95. (In Chinese with English Abstract).
7. Yan Z, Xu Y, Li D. Experimental study on characteristics of bed load transport over low-head, run-of-river dams. Advances in Water Science, 2020, 31(3): 356-365. (In Chinese with English Abstract)
6. Xu Y, Wang T, Wu Y, et al. PCA-Entropy weight coefficient evaluation model of channel sediment treatment schemes for Beilun port in Ningbo city [J]. Water Resources and Power, 2015, 33(003): 92-95. (In Chinese with English Abstract).
7. Yan Z, Xu Y, Li D. Experimental study on characteristics of bed load transport over low-head, run-of-river dams. Advances in Water Science, 2020, 31(3): 356-365. (In Chinese with English Abstract)
Awards:
Outstanding Doctoral student of Tsinghua University, 2022
Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation of Tsinghua University, 2022
National Scholarship for Graduate Students, 2021
China Scholarship Council Fellowship for Joint Ph.D. Training Program, 2019
National Scholarship for Graduate Students, 2017
Outstanding Youth League Member of Tsinghua University, 2017
First Class Prize of Mathematics Competitions of Chinese College Students, 2014
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