Lian Shen

Professor,

Mechanical Engineering

Mechanical Engineering

Rm 229

111 Church Street SE

Minneapolis,

55455

Director, St. Anthony Falls Laboratory

Research Interests

Computational fluid dynamics: DNS and LES of turbulent flows; simulation of free-surface flows; computation of nonlinear waves
Turbulent boundary layers at smooth and rough undulatory surface: Flow over wavy boundaries; wind-wave interaction; marine atmospheric boundary layer
Free-surface and multi-fluids flow: Free-surface turbulence; interfacial transport; wave-turbulence interaction; wave breaking
Sustainable energy: Ocean wave and wind as renewable energy resources; offshore wind farms; floating wind turbines; wave energy converters
Environmental fluid mechanics: Transport at water surface and effect of surfactants; air-water transfer of heat and greenhouse gases
Radiative transfer: Optics in water environment; hydrodynamic-optical effect on ecological-biogeochemical systems
Scientific computing and modeling: High-performance large-scale parallel computing; data-intensive computing; multi-physics modeling

Name:	Fluid Mechanics Lab
Location:	ME L123

Name:	Computational Fluid Dynamics Lab
Location:	ME 10A

Selected Publications

Xuan, A., Deng, B. & Shen, L., “Study of wave effect on vorticity in Langmuir turbulence using wave-phase-resolved LES,” Journal of Fluid Mechanics, accepted.
Hao, X. & Shen, L., “Wind-wave coupling study using LES of wind and phased-resolved simulation of nonlinear waves,” Journal of Fluid Mechanics, accepted
Foti, D., Yang, X., Shen, L. & Sotiropoulos, F. (2019), “Effect of wind turbine nacelle on turbine wake dynamics in large wind farms,” Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 869, pp.1-26.
Deng, B., Yang, Z., Xuan, A. & Shen, L. (2019), “Influence of Langmuir circulations on turbulence in the bottom boundary of shallow water,” Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 861, pp.275-308.
Xuan, A. & Shen, L. (2019), “A conservative scheme for simulation of free-surface turbulent and wave flows,” Journal of Computational Physics, Vol. 378, pp.18-43.