His research interests are broadly defined, but centered on applying computational science for simulation, modeling, control and optimization in fluid mechanics. His current research efforts include high-performance computation for the simulation of incompressible and compressible flows involving the interaction with solid structures, developing model order reduction methods to apply on complex fluid-solid systems to achieve low order models for real-time computation and autonomous control, and developing adjoint-based approach for sensitivity study and optimization of fluid problems with large control space and moving/morphing solid boundaries. With these mathematical and numerical techniques, Wei’s research group has studied problems with various application background such as flying mechanism of insects and small birds, autonomous control of micro air vehicles, simulation and modeling of underbody blasts, jet noise reduction, etc.
Research: Thermal and Fluid Sciences
