Journal Publications

2025

  1. Tabulated chemistry approach for detonation simulations.
    By Baumgart, A., Yao, M.X. and Blanquart, G.
    In Combustion and Flame, vol. 272, p. 113878, 2025.

2024

  1. Isolating effects of large and small scale turbulence on thermodiffusively unstable premixed hydrogen flames.
    By Yao, M.X. and Blanquart, G.
    In Combustion and Flame, vol. 269, p. 113657, 2024.
  2. Flame-acoustic interactions in high-pressure H2/air diffusion flames.
    By Arumapperuma, G., Yao, M.X., Hickey, J.-P. and Han, W.
    In Combustion Theory and Modelling, vol. 28, no. 5, pp. 1–21, 2024.
  3. Capturing differential diffusion effects in large eddy simulation of turbulent premixed flames.
    By Yao, M.X. and Blanquart, G.
    In Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, vol. 40, no. 1-4, p. 105500, 2024.

2023

  1. Thermoacoustic response of fully compressible counterflow diffusion flames to acoustic perturbations.
    By Yao, M.X., Hickey, J.-P. and Blanquart, G.
    In Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, vol. 39, no. 4, pp. 4711–4719, 2023.

2020

  1. Targeted turbulent structure control in wall-bounded flows via localized heating.
    By Hickey, J.-P., Younes, K., Yao, M.X., Fan, D. and Mouallem, J.
    In Physics of Fluids, vol. 32, no. 3, 2020.

2019

  1. Molecular diffusion and phase stability in high-pressure combustion.
    By Yao, M.X., Hickey, J.-P., Ma, P.C. and Ihme, M.
    In Combustion and Flame, vol. 210, pp. 302–314, 2019.
  2. On the detection of internal interfacial layers in turbulent flows.
    By Fan, D., Xu, J., Yao, M.X. and Hickey, J.-P.
    In Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 872, pp. 198–217, 2019.
  3. Vortical and thermal interfacial layers in wall-bounded turbulent flows under transcritical conditions.
    By Yao, M.X., Sun, Z., Scalo, C. and Hickey, J.-P.
    In Physical Review Fluids, vol. 4, no. 8, p. 084604, 2019.
  4. Granularity measures and complexity measures of partition-based granular structures.
    By Yao, M.X.
    In Knowledge-Based Systems, vol. 163, pp. 885–897, 2019.

2018

  1. Impact identification of traffic flow and road age on traffic noise emission via an approach of relative traffic noise pressure index.
    By Dai, L., Huang, K. and Yao, M.X.
    In International Journal of Vehicle Noise and Vibration, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 301–319, 2018.

2017

  1. Modelling dependence between traffic noise and traffic flow through an entropy-copula method.
    By Huang, K., Dai, L.M., Yao, M.X., Fan, Y.R. and Kong, X.M.
    In Journal of Environmental Informatics, vol. 29, no. 2, 2017.

Refereed Conference Proceedings

  1. Compact representation of a multi-dimensional combustion manifold using deep neural networks.
    By Bhalla, S., Yao, M.X., Hickey, J.-P. and Crowley, M.
    In Joint European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, pp. 602–617, 2019.

Theses

  1. Lean Premixed Hydrogen Flames: Turbulence, Chemistry, and Modelling, PhD thesis, California Institute of Technology, 2024
  1. Thermoacoustic instabilities in counterflow diffusion flames, Master’s thesis, University of Waterloo, 2019