Education background

Ph.D. in Astronomy, 2010, Tsinghua University

B.S. in Physics, 2004, Tsinghua University

Experience

June 2013 – now, Research Associate, Center for Combustion Energy and Department of Thermal Engineering, Tsinghua University

(October 2014 – September 2015, Visiting Associate Research Scholar, Princeton University)

March 2011 – May 2013, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Combustion Energy and Department of Thermal Engineering, Tsinghua University

November 2010 – February 2011, Visiting Scholar, National Astronomical Observatory of China

November 2010, Visiting Scholar, Nagoya University

Areas of Research Interests/ Research Projects

Dr. Gao works mainly on the interdisciplinary science of combustion and astrophysics. Research topics including:

Combustion process and explosion mechanism in supernova explosion

Hydrodynamics and radio diagnostics in star formation

Large Lewis number flame theory

Relativistic combustion

Combustion instabilities and turbulent combustion

Academic Achievement

Turbulence decay and cloud core relaxation in molecular clouds, Gao Y., Xu H., Law C. K., Astrophysical Journal, 799, 227 (2015).

Coupled Pulsating and Cellular Structure in the Propagation of Globally Planar Detonations in Free Space, Wenhu Han, Yang Gao, Cheng Wang, Chung K. Law, Physics of Fluids, 27, 106101 (2015)

Rankine-Hugoniot relations in relativistic combustion waves, Gao Y., Law C. K., Astrophysical Journal, 760, 122 (2012).

Detonation propagation and accelerative expansion of the Crab nebula shock front, Gao Y., Law C. K., Physical Review Letters, 107, 171102 (2011).

Envelops expansion with core collapse in star-forming cloud L1517B, Fu T.-M., Gao Y., Lou Y.-Q., Astrophysical Journal, 741, 113 (2011).

Forming protostars in molecular clouds with shocked envelope expansion and core collapse, Lou Y.-Q., Gao Y., Monthly Notice of the Royal Astronomical Society, 412, 1755-1764 (2011).

Global collapses and expansions in star-forming clouds, Gao Y., Lou Y.-Q., Monthly Notice of the Royal Astronomical Society, 403, 1919-1929 (2010).

Molecular line profiles of collapsing gas clouds, Gao Y., Lou Y.-Q., Wu K., Monthly Notice of the Royal Astronomical Society, 400, 887-897 (2009).

Self-similar shocks in polytropic gas flows around star-forming regions, Lou Y.-Q., Gao Y., Monthly Notice of the Royal Astronomical Society, 373, 1610-1618 (2006).