Dr. Chaoqun Liu is an academy member of distinguished researchers and the Director of the Center for Numerical Simulation and Modeling at the University of Texas at Arlington. He has worked on high-order direct numerical simulation (DNS) and large eddy simulation (LES) for flow transition and turbulence for 35 years since 1990. As PI, he has been awarded by NSF, NASA, US Air Force, and US Navy with 52 federal research grants of over 6 million US dollars in the United States. He has published 16 professional books, 144 journal papers, 170 conference papers, and book chapters. He is the founder and principal contributor of Liutex and the third generation of vortex definition and identification methods, including the Omega, Liutex/Rortex, Modified Liutex-Omega, Liutex-Core-Line methods, Objective Liutex, RS vorticity decomposition, and UTA R-NR velocity gradient tensor decomposition. He is also the founder of Liutex based triple decomposition of velocity gradient tensor and Liutex-based new fluid kinematics.

Dr. Yonghua Yan is an Associate Professor at Jackson State University. His research interests are applications of computational mathematics, especially computational fluid dynamics. He has worked in computational mathematics and numerical simulation for over 15 years and has contributed 71 peer-reviewed research papers in applied mathematics and related fields.

Dr. Fazle Hussain is the President’s Endowed Distinguished Chair in Engineering, Science & Medicine and Senior Adviser to the President at Texas Tech University. He is also a Distinguished Professor and Scholar in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and conducts research in Fluid Dynamics and Cancer Cell Mechanics.

Dr. Tom Shih is a Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Purdue University. His research focuses on computational fluid dynamics and heat transfer, thermal management, gas turbine aero-thermal, control of shock-wave/boundary-layer interactions, and aircraft icing.

Dr. Phil Ligrani is currently an Eminent Scholar in Propulsion and a Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in the College of Engineering at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. He is also a member of the European Union Academy of Sciences (EUAS). His research interests include turbomachinery, convective heat transfer, fluid mechanics, transonic, supersonic, and hypersonic flows, microfluidics, and measurement technologies.

Dr. Goodarz Ahmadi is a Distinguished Professor at Clarkson University.
His expertise includes computational fluid dynamics and particulate flows.

Dr. Alexander Kosovichev is a Distinguished Professor of Physics at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. His research interests include solar observations and theory, helioseismology, astrophysics, and numerical simulations.

Dr. Kostas Tziotziou serves as the Scientist Director-President of the Scientific Council of IAASARS/NOA. His research interests include Solar Physics, the Sun-Earth connection, Space Physics, Space Weather, and the development of Space Weather forecasting algorithms and systems.

Dr. Jianping Zhu is a Professor of Mathematics and Statistics. He specializes in applied mathematics, fluid dynamics, and numerical modeling.

Dr. Sandra Rugonyi is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering with expertise in cardiovascular biomechanics and computational modeling of blood flow dynamics. Dr. Rugonyi has contributed to fundamental knowledge on hemodynamic regulation during heart formation and beyond.

Dr. Meelan Choudhari is a Senior Research Scientist at NASA Langley Research Center. His research interests include laminar-turbulent transition, hydrodynamic instabilities, aeroacoustics, and flow control.

Dr. Sim Aberson is a Meteorologist with the Hurricane Research Division of the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML). He serves on the American Meteorological Society History Committee and is a member of the American Meteorological Society and Out to Innovate. Dr. Aberson’s primary research interest is in using data to improve forecasts of tropical cyclones globally, emphasizing observations obtained during NOAA’s annual Hurricane Field Program. His research has ranged from developing and optimizing dropwindsonde technology, improving and verifying numerical models, to investigating small-scale features in tropical cyclones that may impact future intensity.

Dr. Decheng Wan is the Director of Computational Marine Hydrodynamics Laboratory at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Chair Professor of Chang Jiang Scholar and Distinguished Professor of Shanghai Eastern Scholar, President of International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers (ISOPE), the Chair of ISOPE International Hydrodynamic Committee, Advisor committee member of International Towing Tank Conference (ITTC), associate editor-in-chief of Journal of Hydrodynamics and China Ocean Engineering, editorial board member of Ocean Engineering and Applied Ocean Research, etc. Prof. Wan has been selected as TOP 2% scientists from all over the world since 2019. He is awarded the most cited researchers since 2018 by Elsevier, received CH Kim Award, ISOPE Award, Prof. Peiyuan Zhou’s First Award of Hydrodynamics, Best paper of Moan-Faltinsen Award, etc. His research interest is mainly on computational marine and coastal hydrodynamics, numerical marine basin, nonlinear wave theory, wave loads on structures, numerical analysis of riser vortex-induced vibration (VIV) and platform vortex-induced motion (VIM), fluid-structure interaction, offshore wind turbine, and other offshore renewable resources, etc. In these areas, he has published over 580 papers and carried out more than 60 projects on marine hydrodynamics and computational hydrodynamics and has delivered over 100 invited or keynote presentations at international conferences. His remarkable work on the development of numerical solvers in ship and ocean engineering has been recognized by the worldwide researchers in the field of marine hydrodynamics.

Dr. Gennadii Voropaiev is a Professor and Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. His scientific work is dedicated to solving fundamental and applied problems in the field of turbulent boundary layers and controlling their characteristics to reduce the resistance of moving bodies. Specifically, he substantiated the principle of distributed damping of flow disturbances to maintain the structure of the turbulent layer, which led to the development of a methodology for selecting the parameters of viscoelastic coatings to reduce frictional resistance. He also proposed and justified a hypothesis regarding the redistribution of energy among the components of the Reynolds stress tensor in the turbulent boundary layer of a polymer solution, which helps explain the Toms effect. These studies have led to the discovery and investigation of mechanical effects essential for understanding the interaction of turbulent flow with a deformable surface, shaping the main direction of applied research in the interests of the shipbuilding and aerospace industries. In 2025, under Gennadii Voropaiev’s leadership, the Institute of Hydromechanics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine will conduct research on the formation, development, and interaction of vortex structures in boundary layers and develop methods for controlling vortex structures in wall-bounded turbulent flows to reduce hydrodynamic resistance.

Dr. Yevhenii Shkvar is a Professor of the College of Engineering at Zhejiang Normal University (Jinhua, China) and a Leading researcher of the Institute of Hydromechanics od NASU (Kyiv, Ukraine). He is an expert in fluid mechanics and, in particular, development of models of turbulence for different shear flows in order to control their properties in various applications. He has about 270 publications, including 60 publications in high-level professional journals and an active participant of various conferences, congresses, symposiums and colloquiums (Ukraine, China, USA, Spain, Greece, Poland, Japan, Korea, Czech Republic, Russia), a member of editorial boards of 4 International scientific journals: International Journal of Thermofluid Science and Technology (China), Engineering Science & Technology (senior editor, Singapore), Bulletin of Cherkasy University. Ser. “Applied Mathematics. Informatics” (Ukraine), Transactions of the Institute of Aviation (Poland), and a reviewer of various journals. He is also a member of the Zhejiang province program “A 1000 of Foreign Talented Experts Plan” since 2017-2019, awarded by the “West Lake Friendship award” in 2018 (Zhejiang province, Hangzhou, China) and Academician of the Transport Academy of Ukraine since 2019, winner of the Zhejiang province contest “International online 1-st level training course for bachelors with online teaching in 2022”.

Dr. Wit Stryczniewicz is a Senior Research Specialist in the Department of Aerodynamics, Łukasiewicz Research Network – Institute of Aviation (ILOT). He is also the project manager for R&D projects carried out by national and international consortia. He conducts research on PIV and stereo-PIV measurements, flow control, and the development of new measurement techniques.

Dr. Vladimir Turick is a Professor in the Department of Applied Hydro-Aeromechanics and Mechatronics of KPI at the National Technical University of Ukraine. He has authored more than 200 scientific articles and materials of international conferences, mainly in the direction of experimental studies of coherent vortex structures in swirling flows of vortex chambers.

Dr. Kazuo Matsuura is a Professor of Informatics at Matsuyama University, Ehime, Japan. His research interests include turbulence theory, vortex dynamics, stability theory, and turbulence computation techniques such as LES (Large Eddy Simulation) and DNS (Direct Numerical Simulation) for high-speed flows. With over 25 years of experience in LES/DNS, his work has been published in peer-reviewed journals and conferences at both international and national levels, including the Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Physical Review Fluids, AIAA Journal, and the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. For the past 13 years, he has taught courses in computer simulation, mathematical modeling, and thermodynamics. He is currently focused on coupling his theory of hierarchical clustering of volumetric vortical regions, developed with Prof. Yasuhide Fukumoto, Japan, with Liutex in compressible transitional-turbulent boundary layers and aeroacoustics.

Dr. Gianni Pedrizzetti is a Professor of Fluid Mechanics at the University of Trieste. His research focuses on applying fluid mechanics to improve cardiovascular sciences. He introduced optical flow techniques to obtain dynamic information from medical images, with the goal of improving heart disease diagnostics. He represents a purely interdisciplinary scientist bridging theoretical, experimental, and numerical analysis to actual applications in clinical cardiology.

Dr. Yongxin Tao is the Betty L. Gordon Endowed Chair, Distinguished Professor, and past Department Chair of Mechanical Engineering at Cleveland State University. He directs the Center for Integrated Modeling in Energy, Resilience and Sustainability (IERS Center) at CSU. Dr. Tao’s research interests include (i) fundamentals of thermal/fluids sciences, (ii) renewable energy and energy efficiency in buildings, including solar, wind, and geothermal heat pump systems, and (iii) sustainability science.

Dr. Alfredo Soldati is a Professor of Fluid Mechanics and Head of the Institute of Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer at Vienna University of Technology. His research focuses on Turbulent Multiphase Flow with Environmental and Industrial Applications.

Dr. Jianzhong Su, Professor and Department Chair of Mathematics at the University of Texas at Arlington, is an applied mathematician with expertise in computational neuroscience and differential equations. He is an experienced researcher, educator, and academic leader. He has served as PI/co-PI on over $10 million federal research, education and training projects from the National Science Foundation, US Department of Agriculture, National Institutes of Health, US Department of Education and other agencies over the last 25 years, published over 80 peer-reviewed journal papers and been invited to over 80 seminars and conferences, and graduated over 10 math Ph.D. students. His recent focus is on data science in agriculture, EEG source reconstructions, brain dynamics, and inverse problems with applications in optical tomography. He has collaborated extensively with other scientists, engineers, and medical doctors to pursue research in data-driven discovery and mathematical modeling in biomedical engineering, clinical science, neuroscience, agriculture, and other areas.

Dr. Yue Liu is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Texas at Arlington. His Fields of Specialization are Partial Differential Equations, Applied Analysis, and Fluid Mechanics. His research interests are the stability theory of nonlinear wave equations, formation of singularities and water waves, modeling and analysis of simplified phenomenological models, and integrable systems.

Dr. Habib Ahmari, P.E., P.Eng. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) and a licensed professional engineer in Texas, U.S., and Ontario, Canada. He specializes in water resources engineering, focusing on turbulent flow dynamics in open channels and their implications for infrastructure design and environmental sustainability. Dr. Ahmari’s research advances the understanding of turbulent structures, sediment transport, and scour processes, with applications in bridge hydraulics and flood risk management. His work has provided critical insights into large-scale coherent turbulent structures, vortex-induced scour around bridge piers under combined wave and current action, and flow dynamics around submerged bridges. He has authored or co-authored over forty scientific journal and conference papers, one book, and two book chapters. His ongoing research continues to drive innovations in turbulent flow studies, supporting the development of resilient and sustainable water infrastructure.

Dr. Florence Haseltine is the Jenkins Garrett Professor and Presidential Distinguished Professor in the College of Nursing and Health Innovation at the University of Texas at Arlington. She also serves as the Medical Director for the North Texas Genome Center. Dr. Haseltine’s research interests include Bio-Informatics, Women’s Health Research, Sex Differences, and Genomics – COVID and Innate Immunity.

Dr. Chaoqun Liu is an academy member of distinguished researchers and the Director of the Center for Numerical Simulation and Modeling at the University of Texas at Arlington. He has worked on high-order direct numerical simulation (DNS) and large eddy simulation (LES) for flow transition and turbulence for 35 years since 1990. As PI, he has been awarded by NSF, NASA, US Air Force, and US Navy with 52 federal research grants of over 6 million US dollars in the United States. He has published 16 professional books, 144 journal papers, 170 conference papers, and book chapters. He is the founder and principal contributor of Liutex and the third generation of vortex definition and identification methods, including the Omega, Liutex/Rortex, Modified Liutex-Omega, Liutex-Core-Line methods, Objective Liutex, RS vorticity decomposition, and UTA R-NR velocity gradient tensor decomposition. He is also the founder of Liutex based triple decomposition of velocity gradient tensor and Liutex-based new fluid kinematics.

Dr. Yiqian Wang is an Associate Professor in the School of Mathematical Sciences of Soochow University. He is one of the main contributors to the developments of the third generation of vortex identification methods, especially the Liutex-based system and the Omega methods. His research focuses on vortex identification, turbulence, and numerical methods.

Dr. Yonghua Yan is an Associate Professor at Jackson State University. His research interests are applications of computational mathematics, especially computational fluid dynamics. He has worked in computational mathematics and numerical simulation for over 15 years and has contributed 71 peer-reviewed research papers in applied mathematics and related fields.

Dr. Souvik Roy’s expertise is in the field of stochastic modeling, inverse problems, and partial differential equations (PDE)-constrained optimization, with applications in health sciences and fluid flows. In the field of fluid flows, he has determined the flow properties like velocity, vorticity, density, given image data which is advected by the fluid flow field using the method of optical flow. He specializes in the study of the theoretical properties of such models and has devised computational algorithms for efficient implementation using finite element methods. He has also formulated novel mathematical algorithms for accurate and fast detection of cancerous cells in human beings, which can facilitate the development of localized treatment strategies to cure cancer with less side-effects. Furthermore, he has built mathematical models that represent dynamics of biological systems, both at the macroscopic and microscopic level, and formulated computational algorithms that aim at controlling those dynamics, using several software packages in C++, PYTHON, FENICS, MATLAB.

Dr. Juhyun Lee is an Associate Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Texas at Arlington. His research focuses on Biomedical Optical Imaging, Hemodynamics, and Cardiac Mechanics.

Dr. Yifei Yu is an Assistant Professor of Research in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Texas at Arlington. He has published more than 10 papers and conference proceedings and given oral presentations at 5 conferences, including AIAA and ASME. His research focuses on computational fluid dynamics, Liutex theory and applications, and LES.

Dr. Haibo Dong is a Professor and Director of Undergraduate Aerospace Engineering at the University of Virginia. His research focuses on computational fluid dynamics, fluid-structure interactions, low-speed aero/hydrodynamics, bio-inspired fluid dynamics, and Morphing structures/biomimetics.

Jun Zhang’s research focuses on hurricane boundary layer structure and dynamics, turbulence observations, air-sea interaction, numerical modeling, and physical parameterizations.

Dr. Li Xi’s research focuses on multiphase flow and numerical fluid mechanics.

Dr. Sharath S. Girimaji is an expert in turbulence, multiphase flow, and aerodynamics.

Dr. Fulvio Scarano is a Full Professor of Aerodynamics and Department Chair of Aerospace Engineering at Delft University of Technology. His research interests cover the development of particle image velocimetry (PIV) and its applications to high-speed aerodynamics in the supersonic and hypersonic regimes. Notable developments are the image deformation technique, Tomographic PIV for 3D flow velocity measurements and its use to quantitatively determine pressure fluctuations and acoustic emissions in wind tunnel experiments. Dr. Scarano has authored more than 200 publications and delivered more than 20 keynote lectures worldwide. Recent works deal with the combination of PIV data with CFD techniques, extension of PIV to large-scale wind tunnel experiments, and applications ranging from sport aerodynamics to ground vehicles, from aircraft to rocket aerodynamics.

Dr. Albert Y. Tong is an Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington. His research had been funded as PI by NSF and AFOSR in the past. His current research interest is in the numerical modeling of multiphase flows, particularly on the tracking of moving interfaces involving all three phases, such as Droplet Transport in Electrowetting-on-Dielectrode (EWOD), Hypoeutectic Alloy Droplet Deposition with Non-Equilibrium Solidification, and Cavitation on Propellers in Highly Turbulent Flows. Lately, he has become more interested in numerical modeling in turbulent flows, particularly the vortex model developed by Dr. Chaoqun Liu.

Dr. Zhining Liu is a Member of Technical Staff in HyPerComp. He has more than 35 years of CFD and mesh generation experience. His experiences include the fields of unstructured flow solvers development, parallel computations, preconditioning, finite-rate chemistry, DNS, LES, high-order numerical schemes, multigrid algorithms, CAD repair, structured/unstructured surface and volume mesh generation. He has authored and co-authored over 30 technical publications in the related fields and has been working closely with other industry/academic members in the related fields by developing efficient flow solvers and mesh generation methods for various important projects. His applications range from incompressible to hypersonic flows, dealing with complicated physics in the propulsion, turbomachinery, rotor-craft, rotation detonation engines, plasma reentry flows, MHD flows, and other areas, including combustion, particle spray, moving mesh, heat and mass transfer, conjugate heat transfer, radiative heat transfer, shock/boundary-layer interactions, etc. He also has experience in CEM.

Dr. Oskar Steiner is a Senior Scientist at Istituto Ricerche Solari Aldo e Cele Daccò (IRSOL). His research includes numerical experiments of wave propagation and conversion for the interpretation and prediction of observable signals of wave activities in the solar atmosphere.

Dr. Wei Zhang is an Associate Professor of Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering (CECE) – Structural/Wind Engineering at Texas Tech University. Dr. Zhang’s research focuses on Wind hazard mitigation, Wind energy, Bluff body aerodynamics, Bio-inspiration and biomimicry, and Wind tunnel tests for CFD-validation.

Dr Irina Kitiashvili is a Research Scientist at the NASA Ames Research Center, NASA Advanced Supercomputing Division. 
Her research interests include realistic-type radiative MHD modeling of the Sun and stars, solar activity, turbulence, analysis of observations, and developing data assimilation, AI/ML techniques.

Dr. Cristian Marchioli is Professor of Fluid Mechanics at the University of Udine. He is also one of the Editors of the journal Acta Mechanica and the director of the Dept. Fluid Mechanics of the International Center of Mechanical Sciences. His research interests involve multiphase flow modeling, from small-scale particle-turbulence interactions to large-scale modeling of gas-solid/ gas-liquid flows. Currently, his activity is focused on the study of flexible microplastics in turbulent shear flow.

Dr. Mostafa Momen is an Assistant Professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of Houston, where he leads the environmental fluid mechanics lab. His interdisciplinary research is centered around the dynamics of environmental fluids with a focus on turbulence, atmospheric boundary layers, computational fluid dynamics, and hurricane simulations.

Dr. Charles Nottage is an Assistant Professor of Instruction in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Texas at Arlington. His research focuses on numerical methods for vortex identification and turbulence modeling.

Dr. Jiawei Chen is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Texas at Arlington. His research spans turbulence modeling, vortex dynamics, icing simulations, and cooling technologies. Dr. Chen’s current work focuses on vortex identification and Large Eddy Simulation (LES), particularly through the development of Liutex-based subgrid-scale models that improve the accuracy of turbulent flow predictions. During his doctoral studies, he proposed the SRF γ-Re_θt transition model to account for separation and roughness effects in icing simulations. His earlier research addressed unsteady pulsed jets and their cooling efficiency mechanisms in turbine. He has published multiple articles in journals such as Physics of Fluids, Aerospace Science and Technology, Applied Thermal Engineering, with some recognized as Featured Articles or Editor’s Picks. He also serves as a reviewer for some international journals, including Physics of Fluids.

Oscar Alvarez is a Research Scientist I at the University of Texas at Arlington Research Institute (UTARI). At UTARI, Oscar researches numerical methods and techniques to improve specialized physics-based Finite Element analysis software BSAM. Oscar is also a Mathematics PhD graduate student at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA), where he studies and researches Liutex under Dr. Chaoqun Liu.

Chenxi Ma is a graduate student researcher pursuing a PhD in Mathematics at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) under Dr. Chaoqun Liu. His research focuses on turbulence modeling and the theoretical study of Liutex.

Maryam Sangi is a graduate student researcher pursuing a PhD in Mathematics at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) under Dr. Chaoqun Liu. Her primary research interests include numerical linear algebra and computational fluid dynamics, focusing on their application to real-world problems. Maryam Sangi is actively contributing to the Vortex project, applying advanced computational techniques to the study and simulation of blood flow in the Heart. She is passionate about leveraging mathematical models and computational methods to drive engineering and scientific research innovation.