Dr. Rui Zhu
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NameHerr Dr. Rui Zhu
Postdoc
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Professur für Transportprozesse in Hydrosystemen
Professur für Transportprozesse in Hydrosystemen
Besuchsadresse:
CHE-Neubau, Raum P301 Bergstraße 66
01069 Dresden
Research interests
Sediment transport, Granular collapse, Gravity currents, Swimmer hydrodynamics, and Machine learning in fluid dynamics
Projects
2026-2027, Hydrodynamics and Mixing of Ambient Flow Induced by a Swarm of Mesozooplankton, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Biography
2026-present, Humboldt Research Fellowship for Postdocs, Chair of Transport Processes in Hydrosystems, TU Dresden.
2025, Postdoc, Environmental Hydraulics Laboratory, Swiss Federal Technology Institute of Lausanne (EPFL).
2023-2024, Postdoc, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara.
2016-2022, Ph.D. in Coastal and Offshore Engineering, Zhejiang University.
2012-2016, Bachelor’s degree in Water and Hydropower Engineering, Sichuan University.
Publications
[1] Zhu, R., He, Z., & Meiburg, E. (2024). Effects of initial packing density and cohesion on submerged granular collapse. Physical Review Fluids, 9(8), 084302.
[2] Zhu, R., He, Z., & Meiburg, E. (2023). Mixing, entrainment and energetics of gravity currents released from two-layer stratified locks. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 960, A1.
[3] Zhu, R., He, Z., Zhao, K., Vowinckel, B., & Meiburg, E. (2022). Grain-resolving simulations of submerged cohesive granular collapse. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 942, A49.
[4] Zhu, R., He, Z., & Meiburg, E. (2021). Removal of a dense bottom layer by a gravity current. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 916, A30.
[5] Zhu, R., Chen, Y., Tholen, K., He, Z., & Pähtz, T. (2026). On buoyancy in disperse two-phase flow and its impact on well-posedness of two-fluid models. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Under third-round revision.
[6] Zhu, R., He, Z., Han, D., Tian, D., Vowinckel, B., & Meiburg, E. (2026). The dynamics of cohesive granular collapse: A review of experimental and numerical results. Philosophical Transactions A, Under second-round revision.
[7] Su, Y.†, Zhu, R.†, Meiburg, E., & Wilhelmus, M. M. (2026). On the biogenic hydrodynamic transport of upward and downward cruising copepods. Physical Review Fluids, Under second-round revision. († These authors contributed equally)
[8] Pähtz, T., Chen, Y., Zhu, R.*, Tholen, K., & He, Z. (2026). Coarse-graining particulate two-phase flow. Granular Matter, 28(20), 1-16. (* Corresponding author)
[9] He, Z., Okon, S. U., Zhu, R., Pähtz, T., & Meiburg, E. (2025). Dynamics of gravity currents under external and internal stratification in geophysical systems. Earth-Science Reviews, 105270.
[10] He, Z., Zhang, H., Zhang, H., Okon, S. U., & Zhu, R. (2025). Particle dynamics in horizontal buoyant jets within linearly stratified environments. Environmental Fluid Mechanics, 25(3), 22.
[11] Bingol, C., Duran-Matute, M., Zhu, R., Meiburg, E., & Clercx, H. J. (2025). Gravity currents under oscillatory forcing. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 1002, A14.
[12] He, Z., Okon, S. U., Zhao, L., & Zhu, R. (2025). Dynamics of gravity currents in stratified environments. Particulate Gravity Currents: Theory, Experiments, and Environmental Applications, pp. 67-87.
[13] Vowinckel, B., Zhao, K., Zhu, R., & Meiburg, E. (2023). Investigating cohesive sediment dynamics in open waters via grain-resolved simulations. Flow, 3, E24.
[14] He, Z., Han, D., Lin, Y. T., Zhu, R., Yuan, Y., & Jiao, P. (2022). Propagation, mixing, and turbulence characteristics of saline and turbidity currents over rough and permeable/impermeable beds. Physics of Fluids, 34(6), 066604.
[15] He, Z., Zhu, R., Zhao, L., Chen, J., Lin, Y. T., & Yuan, Y. (2021). Hydrodynamics of weakly and strongly stratified two-layer lock-release gravity currents. Journal of Hydraulic Research, 59(6), 989-1003.
[16] Chen, Y., He, Z., Lou, Y., Zhang, H., Zhu, R., & Okon, S. U. (2021). Experimental study of horizontal heated buoyant jets in a linearly stratified ambience. Physics of Fluids, 33(4), 047116.
[17] He, Z., Zhao, L., Zhu, R., & Hu, P. (2019). Separation of particle-laden gravity currents down a slope in linearly stratified environments. Physics of Fluids, 31(10), 106602.