Dr. Rui Zhu

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Mr Dr. Rui Zhu

Postdoc

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Organization Name

Chair of Transport Processes in Hydrosystems

Chair of Transport Processes in Hydrosystems

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CHE-Neubau, Raum P301 Bergstraße 66

01069 Dresden

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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 Institute of Technology in 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 the 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 environment. 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.