University Scholarship
Publications and Grants

Qi Wang

qwang4@sdsu.eduorcid.org/0000-0001-7393-9922
Research Relationships

Appointments

  • Assistant Professor, 2020-Present
    Aerospace Engineering, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, US

  • Ph. D., 2014-2020
    Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, US
  • B.S., 2010-2014
    Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Peking University, Beijing, Beijing, CN

Profile updated September 3, 2026.

Scholarship

Academic Publications

Localization of sources in weakly nonlinear fluid systems using linear and quadratic sensitivity analysis
Qi Wang; Zejian You
Physical Review Fluids, 2026, journal article
Acoustic localization Fluid dynamics Mathematical optimization Nonlinear systems
Mitigating adjoint chaos in wall turbulence
Qi Wang; Tamer A. Zaki
Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2026, journal article
Computational fluid dynamics Engineering Fluid dynamics Turbulence
Scalar Field Reconstruction on an Arbitrary Closed Surface from Measured Scalar Gradient Distributions and the Unfolded Surface Integration on Developable Surfaces
Mohamed Amine Abassi; Qi Wang; Xiaofeng Liu
2026, preprint
Computer science Geometry
Domain of dependence for wall-pressure measurements in high-speed boundary layers
Qi Wang; Tamer A. Zaki
Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2025, journal article
Aerodynamics Fluid mechanics Turbulent boundary layer Wall pressure (Aerodynamics)
Inference of inertial particle dynamics from limited measurements
Daniel Domínguez-Vázquez; Nicolas Escobar-Castaneda; Qi Wang; Gustaaf B. Jacobs
Physics of Fluids, 2025, journal article
Dynamics Mechanics Particle dynamics Physics

Adjoint-based data assimilation in a subdomain using omnidirectional-integration-enabled pressure Dirichlet boundary conditions
Mohamed Amine Abassi; Qi Wang; Xiaofeng Liu
Physics of Fluids, 2025, journal article
Boundary value problems Differential equations, Partial Numerical analysis
Green's function integral method for pressure reconstruction from measured pressure gradient and the interpretation of omnidirectional integration
Qi Wang; Xiaofeng Liu
Physics of Fluids, 2023, journal article
Green's functions Mathematical models Numerical analysis Physics
Adjoint-based Particle Forcing Reconstruction and Uncertainty Quantification
Daniel Domínguez-Vázquez; Qi Wang; Gustaaf B. Jacobs
2022, preprint
Computational physics Fluid dynamics Numerical analysis Particle methods (Numerical analysis)
What is observable from wall data in turbulent channel flow?
Qi Wang; Mengze Wang; Tamer A. Zaki
Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2022, journal article
Fluid dynamics Fluid mechanics Turbulence
From wall observations to turbulence: The difficulty of flow reconstruction
Qi Wang; Mengze Wang; Tamer A. Zaki
2021, preprint
Fluid dynamics Fluid mechanics Turbulence
Discrete adjoint of fractional-step incompressible Navier-Stokes solver in curvilinear coordinates and application to data assimilation
Mengze Wang; Qi Wang; Tamer A. Zaki
Journal of Computational Physics, 2019, journal article
Computational fluid dynamics Curvilinear coordinates Navier-Stokes equations Numerical analysis
Kriging-enhanced ensemble variational data assimilation for scalar-source identification in turbulent environments
Vincent Mons; Qi Wang; Tamer A. Zaki
Journal of Computational Physics, 2019, journal article
Computational science and engineering Kriging Machine learning Turbulence
Spatial reconstruction of steady scalar sources from remote measurements in turbulent flow
Qi Wang; Yosuke Hasegawa; Tamer A. Zaki
Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2019, journal article
Fluid dynamics Physics Remote sensing Turbulence