I am a PhD candidate in the Instability, Turbulence & Pattern Formation Group, Department of Aeronautics, Imperial College London, supervised by Prof. Yongyun Hwang. I work on linear analysis of coherent motions in wall-bounded turbulence.

Research interests

• Resolvent analysis
• Data-driven turbulence modelling
• Transient growth of perturbations

Forthcoming

• Talk  ·  EUROMECH Colloquium 668 — Coherent structures in multiphysics flows: modelling, control and interpretation, Technische Universität Berlin  ·  1–3 July 2026
• Talk  ·  14th National Conference on Fluid Mechanics — 第十四届全国流体力学学术会议, Qingdao, China  ·  7–11 August 2026

News

Education

• PhD, Department of Aeronautics, Imperial College London  ·  2024 – 2028 (expected)
• MSc, Department of ESE, Imperial College London  ·  2023 – 2024
• BSc Applied Mathematics, University of Liverpool  ·  2021 – 2023
• BSc Applied Mathematics, Xi’an Jiaotong–Liverpool University  ·  2019 – 2021

Manuscripts

• Data-driven optimal harmonic forcing and resolvent analysis of turbulent channel flow  ·  2026
  Yufan Song, Yongyun Hwang.
  In preparation for J. Fluid Mech.

• Producing Optimal Adaptive Meshes for Finite Element Methods Using Neural Networks  ·  2024
  Yufan Song, Boyang Chen, Christopher Pain.
  MSc Independent Research Project, Imperial College London.

Contact

Email: ys723@ic.ac.uk
Office: CAGB 420
Department of Aeronautics
Imperial College London
South Kensington Campus
London SW7 2AZ, UK