Yuan-Nan Young
Professor, Mathematical Sciences
- yyoung@njit.edu
- 973-642-7034
- 519 Cullimore Hall (CULM)
Education
Ph.D.; University of Chicago; 2000
M.S.; University of Chicago; Astronomy And Astrophysics; 1996
B.A.; National Taiwan University; Physics; 1993
Website
2026 Fall Courses
MATH 790A - DOCT DISSERTATION & RES
MATH 651 - METHODS OF APPLIED MATH I
MATH 792B - PRE DOCTORAL RESEARCH
Past Courses
MATH 111: CALCULUS I
MATH 112: CALCULUS II
MATH 211: CALCULUS IIIA
MATH 222: DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
MATH 328: MATH METHODS FOR SCI & ENGINEER
MATH 331: INTRO PARTIAL DIFF EQ
MATH 335: VECTOR ANALYSIS
MATH 337: LINEAR ALGEBRA
MATH 337: LINEAR ALGEGRA
MATH 340: APPLIED NUMERICAL METHODS
MATH 340: NUMERICAL METHODS
MATH 391: NUMERICAL LINEAR ALGEBRA
MATH 450: METHODS OF APPLIED MATHEMATICS I (CAPSTONE I)
MATH 451: METHODS APPL MATH II
MATH 451: METHODS OF APPLIED MATHEMATICS II (CAPSTONE II)
MATH 611: NUMER METH FOR COMPUTATN
MATH 613: ADV APPLIED MATH-MODELNG
MATH 613: ADVANCED APPLIED MATHEMATICS I: MODELING
MATH 614: NUMERICAL METHODS
MATH 614: NUMERICAL METHODS I
MATH 651: METHODS OF APPLIED MATH I
MATH 651: METHODS OF APPLIED MATHEMATICS
MATH 689: ADV APPLIED MATH II
MATH 715: MATHEMATICAL FLUID DYNAMICS I
MATH 716: MATHEMATICAL FLUID DYNAMICS II
Journal Article
Henry Shum, Devenayagam Palaniappan, Yuan-Nan Young. 2025. "Hydrodynamic interactions between a sedimenting squirmer and a planar wall." Journal of Fluid Mechanics/Cambridge University Press, vol. 1010, no. A24.
Vinit Kumar Malik, Chih-Tang Liao, Chenghao Xu, Addalla Daddi-Moussa-Ider, On-Shun Pak, Yuan-Nan Young, Jie Feng. 2025. "Magnetically driven lipid vesicles for directed motion and light-triggered cargo release." Nanoscale/Royal Society of Chemistry, vol. 17, pp. 13720.
Yuan-Nan Young, Vicente Gomez Herrera, Huan Zhang, Reza Farhadifar, Michael J Shelley. 2025. "Geometric model for dynamics of motor-driven centrosomal asters." Physical Review Research, vol. 7, pp. 013004.
Nima Mostafazadeh, Andrew Resnick, Yuan-Nan Young, Zhangli Peng. 2024. "Microstructure-Based Modeling of Primary Cilia Mechanics." Cytoskeleton, vol. 81, no. 8, pp. 369-381.
Zonghao Zou, Yuexin Liu, Alan Tsang, Onshun Pak, Yuan-Nan Young. 2024. "Adaptive micro-locomotion in a dynamically changing environment via context detection." Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulations, vol. 128, pp. 107666.
Ashley Gannon, Bryan Quaife, Yuan-Nan Young. 2023. "HydrodynamicsofMulticomponentVesicleUnderStrongConfinement." Soft Matter, vol. 20, pp. 599-608.
Szu-Pei Fu, Rolf Ryham, Bryan Quaife, Yuan-Nan Young. 2023. "Effects of tunable hydrophobicity on the collective hydrodynamics of Janus particles under flows." Physical Review Fluids, vol. 8, pp. 050501.
Philipp Marthaler, Andreas Class, Yoichiro Mori, Yuan-Nan Young. 2023. "From electrodiffusion theory to the electrohydrodynamics of leaky dielectrics through the weak electrolyte limit – CORRIGENDUM." Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 962, pp. E1.
Herve Nganguia, Debas Das, Onshun Pak, Yuan-Nan Young. 2022. "Influence of surface viscosities on the electrodeformation of a prolate viscous drop." Soft Matter, vol. 19, pp. 776.
Zelai Xu, Jiaqi Zhang, Yuan-Nan Young, Pengtao Yu, James Feng. 2022. "Comparison of four boundary conditions for the fluid-hydrogel interface." Physical Review Fluids, vol. 7, no. 9, pp. 093301.
Szu-Pei Fu, Rolf Ryham, Bryan Quaife, Yuan-Nan Young. "Effects of Tunable Hydrophobicity on the Collective Hydrodynamics of Janus Particles under Flows." Physical Review Fluids.
Sijia Huang, Carlos Colosqui, Yuan-Nan Young, Howard Stone. 2022. "The effects of surface hydration on capillary adhesion under nanoscale confinement." Soft Matter, vol. 18, no. 25, pp. 4786-4791.
Zonghao Zou, Yuexin Liu, Yuan-Nan Young, On Shun Pak, Alan C. H. Tsang. 2022. "Gait switching and targeted navigation of microswimmers via deep reinforcement learning." Communications Physics, vol. 5, pp. 158.
Sijia Huang, Carlos E Colosqui, Yuan-Nan Young, Howard A Stone. 2022. "The effects of surface hydration on capillary adhesion under nanoscale confinement." Soft Matter, vol. 18, pp. 4786-4791.
Szu-Pei P Fu, Bryan Quaife, Rolf Ryham, Yuan-Nan Young. 2022. "Two-dimensional hydrodynamics of a Janus particle vesicle." Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 941, pp. A41.
Antonio Perazzo, Zhangli Peng, Yuan-Nan Young, Zhe Feng, David K Wood, John M Higgins, Howard A Stone. 2021. "The effect of rigid cells on blood viscosity: linking rheology and sickle cell anemia." Soft Matter, vol. 18, pp. 554-565.
Lei Li, Jiaqi Zhang, Zelai Xu, Yuan-Nan Young, James J Feng, Pengtao Yue. 2021. "An arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian method for simulating interfacial dynamics between a hydrogel and a fluid." Journal of Computational Physics, vol. 451, pp. 110581.
Ye Chen, Ebru Demir, Wei Gao, Yuan-Nan Young, On Shun Pak. 2021. "Wall-induced translation of a rotating particle in a shear-thinning fluid." Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 927, pp. R2.
Bryan Quaife, Ashley Gannon, Yuan-Nan Young. 2021. "Hydrodynamics of a semipermeable inextensible membrane under flow and confinement." Physical Review Fluids, vol. 6, pp. 073601.
Herve Nganguia, Wei-Fan Hu, Ming-Chih Lai, Yuan-Nan Young. 2021. "Effects of surfactant solubility on the hydrodynamics of a viscous drop in a dc electric field." Physical Review Fluids, vol. 6, pp. 064004.
Yuexin Liu, Zonghao Zou, Alan Chen Hou Tsang, On Shun Pak, Yuan-Nan Young. 2021. "Mechanical rotation at low Reylonds number via reinforcement learning." Physics of Fluids, vol. 33, pp. 079902.
Yuan-Nan Young, Michael J Shelley, David B Stein. 2021. "The many behaviors of deformable active droplets." Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 2849-2881.
Zhangli Peng, Andrew Resnick, Yuan-Nan Young. 2021. "Primary cilium: a paradigm for integrating mathematical modeling with experiments and numerical simulations in mechanobiology." Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 1215-1237.
James J. Feng, Yuan-Nan Young. 2020. "Boundary conditions at a gel-fluid interface." Physical Review Fluids, vol. 5, pp. 124304.
Szu-pei Fu, Rolf Ryham, Andreas Klockner, Matt Wals, Shidong Jiang, Yuan-Nan Young. 2020. "An Integral Equation Method and Variational Approach for Amphiphilic Lipid Dynamics." SIAM Journal of Multiscale Modeling and Simulation, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 79-103.
Bryan Quaife, Shravan Veerapaneni, Yuan-Nan Young. 2019. "Hydrodynamics and rheology of a vesicle doublet suspension." Physical Review Fluids, vol. 4, pp. 103601.
Justin Flaherty, Zhe Feng, Zhangli Peng, Andrew Resnick, Yuan-Nan Young. 2019. "Primary cilia have a length-dependent persistence length." Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology, vol. 19, pp. 445-460.
Herve Nganguia, On Shun Pak, Yuan-Nan Young. 2019. "Effects of surfactant transport on electrodeformation of a viscous drop." Physical Review E, vol. 99, pp. 063104.
Yuan-Nan Young, Yoichiro Mori, Michael Miksis. 2019. "A Slightly Deformable Darcy Drop in Linear Flows." Physical Review Fluids, vol. 4, pp. 103601.
Yoichiro Mori, Yuan-Nan Young. 2018. "From Electrodiffusion Theory to the Electrohydrodynamics of Leaky Dielectrics through the Weak Electrolyte Limit." Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 855.
Yuan-Nan Young, Howard A Stone. 2017. "Long-wave dynamics of an elastic sheet lubricated by a thin liquid film on a wetting substrate." Physical Review Fluid, vol. 2, pp. 064001.
Herve Nganguia, Yuan-Nan Young, Anita Layton, Wei-Fan Hu, Ming-Chih Lai. 2016. "Electrohydrodynamics of a viscous drop with inertia." Physical Review E, vol. 93, 053114, May 2016., pp. 053114.
Wen-Fan Hu, Ming-Chih Lai, Yunchang Seol, Yuan-Nan Young. 2016. "Vesicle electrohydrodynamic simulations by coupling immersed boundary and immersed interface methods." Journal of Computational Physics, vol. 317, pp. 66-81.
Yi Liu, Jerzy Blawzdziewicz, Bogdan Cichocki, Jan K.G. Dhont, Maciej Lisicki, Eligiusz Wajnryb, Yuan-Nan Young, Peter R Lang. 2015. "Near-wall dynamics of concentrated hard-sphere suspensions: Comparison of evanescent wave DLS experiments, virial approximation and simulations." Soft Matter, vol. 11, pp. 7316-7327.
On Shun Pak, Yuan-Nan Young, Gary R. Marple, Shravan Veerapaneni, Howard A. Stone. 2015. "Gating of a mechanosensitive channel due to cellular flows." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States, vol. 112, pp. 9822-9827.
Szu-Pei Fu, Yuan-Nan Young, Shidong Jiang. 2015. "Efficient Brownian Dynamics Simulation of DNA Molecules with Hydrodynamic Interactions in Linear Flows." Physical Review E, vol. 91, pp. 063008.
Herve Nganguia, Yuan-Nan Young. 2015. "An Immersed Interface Method for Axisymmetric Electrohydrodynamic Simulations in Stokes flow." Communications in Computational Physics.
Yuan-Nan Young, Michael Miksis. 2015. "Electrohydrodynamic Instability of a Capacitive Elastic Membrane." Physics of Fluids.
W.-F. Hu, Yuan-Nan Young, M.-C. Lai. 2014. "A Hybrid Immersed Boundary and Immersed Interface Method for Electrohydrodynamic Simulations." Journal of Computational Physics, vol. 282, pp. 47-61.
Shravan Veerapaneni, Michael Miksis. 2014. "Long-wave Dynamics of an Inextensible Planar Membrane in an Electric Field." Journal of Fluid Mechanics/Cambridge University Press, vol. 751, pp. 406-431.
Yuan-Nan Young, Herve Nganguia. 2013. "Equilibrium Electrodeformation of a Spheroidal Vesicle in an AC Electric Field ." Physical Review E, vol. 88, pp. 052718.
Herve Ngangui, Yuan-Nan Young, Petia Vlahovska. 2013. "Electro-deformation of a surfactant-laden viscous drop." Physics of Fluids, vol. 25, pp. 092106.
Yuan-Nan Young, Matthew Down, Christopher Jacobs. 2012. "Dynamics of the primary cilium in shear flow." Biophysical Journal, vol. 103, no. 4, pp. 629-639.
Elizabeth I Bouzarth, Anita T Layton, Yuan-Nan Young. 2011. "Modeling a flexible filament in cellular Stokes flow using regularized Stokeslets." International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Egnieering.
Petia M Vlahovska, Yuan-Nan Young, G. Danker, C. Misbah. 2011. "Dynamics of a non-spherical microcapsule with incompressible interface in shear flow." Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 678, pp. 221-247.
Shravan K Veerapaneni, Yuan-Nan Young, Petia M Vlahovska, Jerzy Blawzdziewicz. 2011. "Dynamics of a compound vesicle in shear flow." Physical Review Letters, vol. 106, pp. 158103.
J. Blawzddiewicz, Roy H. Goodman, N. Khurana, E. Wajnryb, Yuan-Nan Young. 2010. "Nonlinear hydrodynamic phenomena in Stokes flow regime." Physica D/Elsevier, vol. 239, no. 14, pp. 1214-1224.
Jerzy Blawzdziewicz, Roy Goodman, N. Khurana, E. Wajnryb, Yuan-Nan Young. 2010. "nonlinear hydrodynamic phenomena in Stokes flow regime." Physica D, vol. 239, no. 14, pp. 1214-1224.
Yuan-Nan Young. 2010. "Dynamics of a semiflexible polar filament in Stokes flow." Physical Review E, vol. 82, no. 1, pp. 016309.
Yuan-Nan Young, Michael R. Booty, Michael S. Siegel, Jie Li. 2009. "Influence of surfactant solubility on the deformation and breakup of a bubble or capillary jet in a viscous fluid." Physics of Fluids, vol. 21, pp. 072105.
Yuan-Nan Young. 2009. "Hydrodynamic interactions between two semi-flexible in-extensible filaments in Stokes flow." Physical Review E, vol. 79, pp. 046317.
Mohammad Hameed, Michael S. Siegel, Yuan-Nan Young, Jie Li, Michael R. Booty, Dimitri Papageorgiou. 2008. "Influence of insoluble surfactant on the deformation and breakup of a bubble or thread in a viscous fluid." Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 594, pp. 307-340.
Yuan-Nan Young, Jerzy Blawzdiewiecz, Vittorio Cristini, Roy H. Goodman. 2008. "Hysteretic and chaotic dynamics of viscous drops in creeping flows with rotation." Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 607, pp. 209-234.
Yuan-Nan Young, Michael shelley. 2007. "Stretch-coil transition and transport of fibers in cellular flows." Physical Review Letters, vol. 99, pp. 058303.
Chapter
Yuan-Nan Young. "Multiscale modeling of primary cilia." Springer, 2014.
Yuan-Nan Young. "Dynamics of the Primary Cilium in Time-Periodic Flows." In Anita Layton and Sarah Olsen, eds., pp. 91-108. American Mathematical Society, 2014.
Yuan-Nan Young. "DYNAMICS OF THE PRIMARY CILIUM IN TIME-PERIODIC FLOWS." In A. T. Laton and S. Olson, eds., pp. 91-107. American Mathematical Society, 2014.