Mingjun Wei

Assistant Professor

New Mexico State University
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
POBox 30001/Dept 3450
Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001

Office: (575) 646-6034
Fax: (575) 646-6111
E-mail: mjwei@nmsu.edu

Education

Ph.D. Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2004
M.S. Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, Fall 2001
M.Engr. Modern Mechanics, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), June 1998
B.S. Modern Mechanics, University of Science and Technology of China, June 1996

Research Interests

Computational Fluid Dynamics
Fluid-Structure Interaction
Aeroacoustics
Flow Control

Professional Experience

Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, New Mexico State University, Aug. 2006 -- present
Invited Researcher, 2nd European Forum on Flow Control, Poitiers, France, June 2006
Research Associate (Postdoc), Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, Jan. 2005 -- Aug. 2006

Journal Publications

M. Wei, and C. W. Rowley, Low-dimensional models of a temporally evolving free shear layer (pdf), J. Fluid Mech. , Vol. 618, pp. 113--134, 2009
B. N. Shashikanth, A. Sheshmani, S. Kelly, and M. Wei, Hamiltonian structure and dynamics of a neutrally buoyant rigid sphere interacting with thin vortex rings (pdf), Journal of Mathematical Fluid Mechanics (appear online first), 2008
A. Samanta, J. B. Freund, M. Wei, and S. K. Lele, Robustness of acoustic analogies for predicting mixing-layer noise (pdf), AIAA Journal, Vol. 44, No. 11, pp. 2780--2786, 2006
M. Wei, and J. B. Freund, A noise-controlled free shear flow (pdf) , J. Fluid Mech. , Vol. 546, pp. 123--152, 2006
X. Y. Yin, D. J. Sun, M. J. Wei, and J. Z. Wu, Absolute and convective instability character of slender viscous vortices (pdf), Physics of Fluids, Vol. 12, No. 5, 2000
M. Wei, D. Sun, X. Yin, and J. Wu, Stability analysis on supersonic trailing-line vortex (pdf), Acta Mechanica Sinica (Chinese), Vol. 31, No. 6, 1999

Conference Articles

M. Wei, B. R. Qawasmeh, M. Barone, and B. G. van Bloemen Waanders, Low-dimensional modeling for spatially developing free shear layers (pdf), AIAA paper 2009-363, Orlando, FL, 2009
B. N. Shashikanth, A. Sheshmani, S. Kelly, and M. Wei, Hamiltonian structure and dynamics of a neutrally buoyant rigid sphere interacting with thin vortex rings (pdf), ITP-07-26, Proceedings of ITP-07, 2007 Interdisciplinary Transport Phenomena V, Bansko, Bulgaria, October, 2007
M. Wei, and P. Jordan, An optimally defined sound source in mixing layers (pdf), AIAA paper 2007-3869, Miami, FL, 2007
D. Eschricht, P. Jordan, M. Wei, J. Freund, and F. Thiele, Analysis of noise-controlled shear-layers (pdf), AIAA paper 2007-3660, Rome, Italy, 2007
S. Ahuja, C. W. Rowley, I. G. Kevrekidis, M. Wei, T. Colonius, and G. Tadmor, Low-dimensional models for control of leading-edge vortices: equilibria and linearized models (pdf), AIAA paper 2007-709, Reno, NV, 2007
M. Wei, and C. W. Rowley, Low-dimensional models of a temporally evolving free shear layer (pdf), AIAA paper 2006-3228, San Francisco, CA, 2006
J. Freund, A. Samanta, M. Wei, and S. Lele, The robustness of acoustic analogies, AIAA paper 2005-2940, Monterey, CA, 2005
J. B. Freund, and M. Wei, Some small changes that make a mixing layer very quiet (pdf), AIAA paper 2005-0997, Reno, NV, 2005
J. B. Freund, S. K. Lele, and M. Wei, The robustness of acoustic analogies (pdf), Center for Turbulence Research, Proceedings of the Summer Program 2004
J. B. Freund, and M. Wei, An emperical "lower bound" on free-shear-flow noise (pdf), XXI ICTAM, Warsaw, Poland, 2004
J. B. Freund, and M. Wei, Adjoint-based control of free shear flow noise(pdf), AIAA paper 2003-3570, Orlando, FL, 2003
M. Wei, and J. B. Freund, Noise control using adjoint-based optimization (pdf), AIAA paper 2002-2524, Breckenridge, CO, 2002
M. Wei, and J. B. Freund, Optimal control of free shear flow noise (pdf), AIAA paper 2002-0665, Reno, NV, 2002
X. Y. Yin, D. J. Sun, M. J. Wei, and J. Z. Wu, Absolute/convective instability of incompressible and compressible swirling vortex, AIAA paper 99-0140, Reno, NV, 1999

Other Selected Talks and Thesis

M. Wei, T. Yang, and H. Zhao, A strong-coupling approach to simulate flexible flapping wing, Bulletin of the American Physical Society, Vol. 53, No. 15, San Antonio, TX, 2008
B. R. Qawasmeh, and M. Wei, Projection of spatial shear layers in a symmetry-reduced space, Bulletin of the American Physical Society, Vol. 53, No. 15, San Antonio, TX, 2008
M. Wei, and C. W. Rowley, Low-dimensional modeling for both temporally and spatially developing free shear layers, Bulletin of the American Physical Society, Vol. 52, No. 17, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2007
M. Wei, and C. W. Rowley, Low-dimensional models of a temporally evolving free shear layer using template-based methods, Bulletin of the American Physical Society, Vol. 51, No. 9, Tampa Bay, FL, 2006
M. Wei, and J. B. Freund, Jet noise mechanism studied by optimal control, Bulletin of the American Physical Society, Vol. 48, No. 10, East Rutherford, NJ, 2003
M. Wei, and J. B. Freund, Adjoint-based control and analysis of free-shear flow noise, 14th US National Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Blacksburg, VA, 2002
M. Wei, and J. B. Freund, Adjoint-based control of noise from two-dimensional mixing layer, Bulletin of the American Physical Society, Vol. 46, No. 10, San Diego, 2001.
My Ph.D. thesis, Jet Noise Control by Adjoint-Based Optimization (pdf)

Funded Projects

Flapping and Twisting Aeroelastic Wings for Propulsion (PI), Army High Performance Computing Research Center (AHPCRC), 2007 ~
Reduced-Order Modeling of Shear Layers (PI), Sandia National Laboratories, SURP, 2007 ~ 2009

Scientific Societies

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) senior member
AIAA Acoustics Technical Committee member
American Physical Society (APS) member

Computer/Lab Facilities

Linux Cluster: (picture)

Head node (1): Dell PowerEdge 6950, 4 dual-core AMD Opteron 8216 (2.4GHz), 8G memory
Compute nodes (40): Dell PowerEdge SC 1435, 2 dual-core AMD Opteron 2216 (2.4GHz), 4G memory
Storage: Dell Power Vault MD1000 External Storage, 3U, 6x500GB Raid 5 (can hold upto 15 disks).