Minping Wan, associate professor, graduated from the Department of Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University in 2002 and received his Ph.D. from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University in 2008. Later on, he got a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Delaware. In 2015, he joined the Department of Physics of Southern University of Science and Technology as an associate professor and transferred to the Department of Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering in 2016. He won the “Qiushi” Outstanding Young Scholar Award. He has published more than 90 papers in some famous international journals, such as Physical Review Letters, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Physics of Fluids, Physical Review Fluids, and so on, and the papers have been cited more than 3400 times and his H-Index is 31 now.

Jan. 2016 ~ Current                               Southern University of Science and Technology / Dept. of MAE              Associate Professor    

Oct. 2015 ~ Dec. 2015                          Southern University of Science and Technology / Dept. of Physics           Associate Professor    

Oct. 2011 ~ Oct. 2015                           University of Delaware  / Dept. of Physics & Astronomy                          Research Associate III    

Sept. 2008 ~ Sept. 2011                        University of Delaware  / Dept. of Physics & Astronomy                         Postdoc    

Sept. 2002 ~ Sept. 2008                        Johns Hopkins University / Dept. of Mechanical Engineering                  Research Assistant    

Sept. 2004 ~ July 2009                          Johns Hopkins University / Dept. of Mechanical Engineering                   Doctoral    

Sept. 2002 ~ July 2004           Johns Hopkins University / Dept. of Mechanical Engineering           Master    

Sept. 1998 ~ July 2002                Tsinghua University / Dept. of Engineering Mechanics                            Bachelor    

Minping Wan is mainly engaged in the fundamental investigations of turbulence theory and numerical simulation, computational fluid dynamics, magnetic fluid, plasma flows, and so on. Focusing on the nonlinear, unsteady and intermittent behaviors of turbulence and magnetic flow. He conducted some original studies on the mechanism of energy inverse cascade and lagrangian characteristics in two-dimensional turbulence and made important contributions in the exploration of the relationship between the energy dissipation and coherent structures in space plasma turbulence. He also pays attention to the complex turbulence and its application in the field of space and geophysics, environment and renewable energy.

1. M. Wan, W. H. Matthaeus, V. Roytershteyn, T. N. Parashar, P. Wu, and H. Karimabadi, “Intermittency, coherent structures and dissipation in plasma turbulence”, Physics of Plasmas, 23(042307), 2016.  

2. M. Wan, W. H. Matthaeus, V. Roytershteyn, H. Karimabadi, T. Parashar, P. Wu and M. Shay, “Intermittent dissipation and heating in 3D kinetic plasma turbulence”, Physical Review Letters, 114(175002), 2015.    

3. M. Wan, A. F. Rappazzo, W. H. Matthaeus, S. Servidio, and S. Oughton, “Dissipation and reconnection in boundary-driven reduced magnetohydrodynamics”, Astrophysical Journal, 797(63), 2014.    

4. P. Wu, M. Wan, W. H. Matthaeus, M. A. Shay, and M. Swisdak, “von Karman energy decay and heating of protons and electrons in a kinetic plasma”, Physical Review Letteers, 111(121105), 2013.    

5. H. Karimabadi, V. Roytershteyn, M. Wan, W. H. Matthaeus, W. Daughton, P. Wu, M. Shay, B. Loring, J. Borovsky, E. L. Leonardis, S. Chapman, and T. K. M. Nakamura, “Coherent structures, intermittent turbulence and dissipation in high-temperature plasmas”, Physics of Plasmas, 20(012303), 2013.    

6. M. Wan, W. H. Matthaeus, H. Karimabadi, V. Roytershteyn, M. Shay, P. Wu,  W. Daughton, B. Loring, and S. C. Chapman, “Intermittent dissipation at   kinetic scales in collisionless plasma turbulence”, Physical Review Letters, 109(195001), 2012.    

7. K. T. Osman, W. H. Matthaeus, M. Wan, and A. F. Rappazzo, “Intermittency and local heating in the solar wind”, Physical Review Letters, 108(261102), 2012.    

8. M. Wan, S. Oughton, S. Servidio, and W. H. Matthaeus, “von Karman self-preservation hypothesis for MHD turbulence and its consequences for universality”, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 697(296), 2012.    

9. M. Wan, K. T. Osman, W. H. Matthaeus, and S.  Oughton, “Investigation of Intermittency in MHD and Solar Wind Turbulence: Scale-Dependent Kurtosis”, Astrophysical Journal, 744(171), 2012.    

10. K. T. Osman, M. Wan, W. H. Matthaeus, J. M. Weygand, and S. Dasso, “Anisotropic third-moment estimates of the energy cascade in solar wind turbulence using multi-spacecraft data.” Physical Review Letters, 107(165001), 2011.    

11. M. Wan, S. Oughton, S. Servidio, and W. H. Matthaeus, “On the accuracy of simulations of turbulence”, Physics of Plasmas, 17(082308), 2010.    

12. M. Wan, Z. Xiao, C. Meneveau, G. L. Eyink and S. Chen. “Dissipation-energy correlations as evidence supporting the turbulent Lagrangian energy cascade”, Physics of Fluids, 22(061702), 2010.    

13. M. Wan, S. Servidio, S. Oughton, and W. H. Matthaeus, “The third-order law for increments in magnetohydrodynamic turbulence with constant shear”. Physics of Plasmas, 16(090703), 2009.    

14. M. Wan, S. Oughton, S. Servidio, and W. H. Matthaeus, “Generation of non-Gaussian statistics and coherent structures in ideal magnetohydrodynamics”. Physics of Plasmas, 16(080703), 2009.    

15. Z. Xiao, M. Wan, S. Chen, and G. L. Eyink. “Physical mechanism of the inverse energy cascade of two-dimensional turbulence: a numerical investigation.” Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 619(1), 2009.    

16. S. Chen, G. L. Eyink, M. Wan, and Z. Xiao. “Is the Kelvin theorem valid for high Reynolds number turbulence?” Physical Review Letters. 97(14). 2006.    

17. S. Chen, R. E. Ecke, G. L. Eyink, M. Rivera, M. Wan, and Z. Xiao. “Physical mechanism of the two-dimensional inverse energy cascade”. Physical Review Letters. 96(8). 2006.