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
• Optimization

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

• C. Cai, K. R. Khasawneh, H. Liu, and M. Wei, Collisionless gas flows over a cylindrical or a spherical object (pdf), Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, Vol. 46, No. 6, Nov.-Dec., 2009
• J. D. Hooser, M. Wei, B. E. Newton, and G. J. A. Chiffoleau, An approach to understanding flow friction ignition: a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) study on temperature development of high-pressure oxygen flow inside micron-scale seal cracks (pdf), Journal of ASTM International, Vol. 6, No. 10, Nov. 2009
• 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 (online since 2008), DOI 10.1007/s00021-008-0291-0
• 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

• T. Yang, M. Wei, and H. Zhao, Numerical study of flexible flapping wing propulsion (pdf), AIAA paper 2010-553, Orlando, FL, 2010
• Z. Liang, H. Dong, and M. Wei, Computational analysis of hovering hummingbird flight (pdf), AIAA paper 2010-555, Orlando, FL, 2010
• K. Khasawneh, C. Cai, M. Wei, and Yang, S., Rarefied jet plume flows, AIAA Paper 2010-0986, Orlando, FL, 2010
• C. Cai, K. Khasawneh, H. Liu, and M. Wei, Collisionless gas flows over a cylinder and sphere, AIAA paper 2009-3603, 41st AIAA Thermophysics Conference, San Antonio, 22-25 June, 2009
• 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, Modeling and control in fluid dynamics and aeroacoustics, invited talk at University of Science and Technology of China, Dec., 2009
• M. Wei, and T. Yang, Global model reduction for fluid-structure interaction in flapping flexible wings, Bulletin of the American Physical Society, Vol. 54, No. 19, Minneapolis, MN, 2009
• B. R. Qawasmeh, and M. Wei, Low-dimensional modeling of shear layers, SIAM conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems, Snowbird, UT, May, 2009
• 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, Low-dimensional modeling for temporally developing free shear layers, invited talk at Computer Science Research Institute of Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, 2007
• 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 Aeroacoustics 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).