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  1. Soft-Lubrication Drainage and Rupture in Particle-Driven Vesicles

    Article • Physical Review Letters, May 2026, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Yuan-Nan Young

  2. Geometric optics organizes organelle interactions and positioning

    Article • April 2026, openRxiv

    Professor Yuan-Nan Young

  3. Modeling and Simulation of Open Membranes in Stokes Flow with Mixed-Dimensional Coupling

    Article • Multiscale Modeling and Simulation, April 2026, Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM)

    Professor Yuan-Nan Young

  4. Hydrodynamic interactions between a sedimenting squirmer and a planar wall

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, May 2025, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Yuan-Nan Young

  5. Geometric model for dynamics of motor-driven centrosomal asters

    Article • Physical Review Research, January 2025, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Yuan-Nan Young

  6. Magnetically driven lipid vesicles for directed motion and light-triggered cargo release

    Article • Nanoscale, January 2025, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Yuan-Nan Young

  7. A special issue on the physics of the cytoskeleton

    Article • Cytoskeleton, August 2024, Wiley

    Professor Yuan-Nan Young

  8. A first-principles geometric model for dynamics of motor-driven centrosomal asters

    Article • June 2024, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Yuan-Nan Young

  9. Hydrodynamics of a multicomponent vesicle under strong confinement

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2024, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Yuan-Nan Young

  10. Microstructure-Based Modeling of Primary Cilia Mechanics

    Article • July 2023, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Yuan-Nan Young

  11. Effects of tunable hydrophobicity on the collective hydrodynamics of Janus particles under flows

    Article • Physical Review Fluids, May 2023, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Yuan-Nan Young

  12. From electrodiffusion theory to the electrohydrodynamics of leaky dielectrics through the weak electrolyte limit – CORRIGENDUM

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, May 2023, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Yuan-Nan Young

  13. Influence of surface viscosities on the electrodeformation of a prolate viscous drop

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2023, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Yuan-Nan Young

  14. Comparison of four boundary conditions for the fluid-hydrogel interface

    Article • Physical Review Fluids, September 2022, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Yuan-Nan Young

  15. Gait switching and targeted navigation of microswimmers via deep reinforcement learning

    Article • Communications Physics, June 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Yuan-Nan Young

  16. Two-dimensional hydrodynamics of a Janus particle vesicle

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, May 2022, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Yuan-Nan Young

  17. An arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian method for simulating interfacial dynamics between a hydrogel and a fluid

    Article • Journal of Computational Physics, February 2022, Elsevier

    Professor Yuan-Nan Young

  18. The effect of rigid cells on blood viscosity: linking rheology and sickle cell anemia

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2022, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Yuan-Nan Young

  19. The effects of surface hydration on capillary adhesion under nanoscale confinement

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2022, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Yuan-Nan Young

  20. Wall-induced translation of a rotating particle in a shear-thinning fluid

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, September 2021, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Yuan-Nan Young

  21. Hydrodynamics of a semipermeable inextensible membrane under flow and confinement

    Article • Physical Review Fluids, July 2021, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Yuan-Nan Young

  22. Publisher's Note: “Mechanical rotation at low Reynolds number via reinforcement learning” [Phys. Fluids 33, 062007 (2021)]

    Article • Physics of Fluids, July 2021, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Yuan-Nan Young

  23. Effects of surfactant solubility on the hydrodynamics of a viscous drop in a dc electric field

    Article • Physical Review Fluids, June 2021, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Yuan-Nan Young

  24. Mechanical rotation at low Reynolds number via reinforcement learning

    Article • Physics of Fluids, June 2021, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Yuan-Nan Young

  25. Primary cilium: a paradigm for integrating mathematical modeling with experiments and numerical simulations in mechanobiology

    Article • Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, January 2021, American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS)

    Professor Yuan-Nan Young

  26. The many behaviors of deformable active droplets

    Article • Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, January 2021, American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS)

    Professor Yuan-Nan Young

  27. Boundary conditions at a gel-fluid interface

    Article • Physical Review Fluids, December 2020, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Yuan-Nan Young

  28. Simulation of Multiscale Hydrophobic Lipid Dynamics via Efficient Integral Equation Methods

    Article • Multiscale Modeling and Simulation, January 2020, Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM)

    Professor Yuan-Nan Young

  29. Hydrodynamics and rheology of a vesicle doublet suspension

    Article • Physical Review Fluids, October 2019, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Yuan-Nan Young

  30. Primary cilia have a length-dependent persistence length

    Article • Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology, September 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Yuan-Nan Young

  31. Effects of surfactant transport on electrodeformation of a viscous drop

    Article • Physical Review E, June 2019, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Yuan-Nan Young

  32. Slightly deformable Darcy drop in linear flows

    Article • Physical Review Fluids, June 2019, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Yuan-Nan Young

  33. From electrodiffusion theory to the electrohydrodynamics of leaky dielectrics through the weak electrolyte limit

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, September 2018, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Yuan-Nan Young

  34. Long-wave dynamics of an elastic sheet lubricated by a thin liquid film on a wetting substrate

    Article • Physical Review Fluids, June 2017, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Yuan-Nan Young

  35. Lennard-Jones type pair-potential method for coarse-grained lipid bilayer membrane simulations in LAMMPS

    Article • Computer Physics Communications, January 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Yuan-Nan Young

  36. On the gating of mechanosensitive channels by fluid shear stress

    Article • Acta Mechanica Sinica, October 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Yuan-Nan Young

  37. Vesicle electrohydrodynamic simulations by coupling immersed boundary and immersed interface method

    Article • Journal of Computational Physics, July 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Yuan-Nan Young

  38. Electrohydrodynamics of a viscous drop with inertia

    Article • May 2016, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Yuan-Nan Young

  39. The primary cilium is a self-adaptable, integrating nexus for mechanical stimuli and cellular signaling

    Article • Biology Open, November 2015, The Company of Biologists

    Professor Yuan-Nan Young

  40. An Immersed Interface Method for Axisymmetric Electrohydrodynamic Simulations in Stokes flow

    Article • Communications in Computational Physics, July 2015, Global Science Press

    Professor Yuan-Nan Young

  41. Gating of a mechanosensitive channel due to cellular flows

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, July 2015, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor Yuan-Nan Young

  42. Efficient Brownian dynamics simulation of DNA molecules with hydrodynamic interactions in linear flows

    Article • Physical Review E, June 2015, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Yuan-Nan Young

  43. A hybrid immersed boundary and immersed interface method for electrohydrodynamic simulations

    Article • Journal of Computational Physics, February 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Yuan-Nan Young

  44. Electrohydrodynamic instability of a capacitive elastic membrane

    Article • Physics of Fluids, February 2015, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Yuan-Nan Young

  45. Near-wall dynamics of concentrated hard-sphere suspensions: comparison of evanescent wave DLS experiments, virial approximation and simulations

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2015, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Mr Maciej K Lisicki, Professor Yuan-Nan Young

  46. Long-wave dynamics of an inextensible planar membrane in an electric field

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, June 2014, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Yuan-Nan Young

  47. Equilibrium electrodeformation of a spheroidal vesicle in an ac electric field

    Article • Physical Review E, November 2013, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Yuan-Nan Young

  48. Equilibrium electro-deformation of a surfactant-laden viscous drop

    Article • Physics of Fluids, September 2013, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Yuan-Nan Young

  49. Dynamics of the Primary Cilium in Shear Flow

    Article • Biophysical Journal, August 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Yuan-Nan Young

  50. Modeling a semi‐flexible filament in cellular Stokes flow using regularized Stokeslets

    Article • International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering, August 2011, Wiley

    Professor Yuan-Nan Young

  51. Dynamics of a non-spherical microcapsule with incompressible interface in shear flow

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, April 2011, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Yuan-Nan Young

  52. Dynamics of a Compound Vesicle in Shear Flow

    Article • Physical Review Letters, April 2011, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Yuan-Nan Young

  53. Dynamics of a semiflexible polar filament in Stokes flow

    Article • Physical Review E, July 2010, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Yuan-Nan Young

  54. Nonlinear hydrodynamic phenomena in Stokes flow regime

    Article • Physica D Nonlinear Phenomena, July 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Yuan-Nan Young

  55. Influence of surfactant solubility on the deformation and breakup of a bubble or capillary jet in a viscous fluid

    Article • Physics of Fluids, July 2009, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Yuan-Nan Young

  56. Hydrodynamic interactions between two semiflexible inextensible filaments in Stokes flow

    Article • Physical Review E, April 2009, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Yuan-Nan Young

  57. Hysteretic and chaotic dynamics of viscous drops in creeping flows with rotation

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, June 2008, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Yuan-Nan Young

  58. Influence of insoluble surfactant on the deformation and breakup of a bubble or thread in a viscous fluid

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, December 2007, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Yuan-Nan Young

  59. Stretch-Coil Transition and Transport of Fibers in Cellular Flows

    Article • Physical Review Letters, August 2007, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Yuan-Nan Young

  60. Limits of the potential flow approach to the single-mode Rayleigh-Taylor problem

    Article • Physical Review E, December 2006, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Yuan-Nan Young

  61. Surface tension in incompressible Rayleigh–Taylor mixing flow

    Article • Journal of Turbulence, January 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Yuan-Nan Young

  62. Stratified Kolmogorov flow. Part 2

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, March 2005, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Yuan-Nan Young

  63. Registration-Based Morphing of Active Contours for Segmentation of CT Scans

    Article • Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, January 2005, American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS)

    Professor Yuan-Nan Young

  64. A comparative study of the turbulent Rayleigh–Taylor instability using high-resolution three-dimensional numerical simulations: The Alpha-Group collaboration

    Article • Physics of Fluids, May 2004, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Yuan-Nan Young

  65. Weakly nonlinear analysis of wind-driven gravity waves

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, March 2004, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Yuan-Nan Young

  66. Whirling hexagons and defect chaos in hexagonal non-Boussinesq convection

    Article • New Journal of Physics, October 2003, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Yuan-Nan Young

  67. Penta-Hepta Defect Chaos in a Model for Rotating Hexagonal Convection

    Article • Physical Review Letters, April 2003, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Yuan-Nan Young

  68. Induced defect nucleation and side-band instabilities in hexagons with rotation and mean flow

    Article • Physica D Nonlinear Phenomena, February 2003, Elsevier

    Professor Yuan-Nan Young

  69. On the C/O Enrichment of Nova Ejecta

    Article • The Astrophysical Journal, December 2002, American Astronomical Society

    Professor Yuan-Nan Young

  70. Temperature statistics in two-dimensional stably stratified turbulence

    Article • Physical Review E, July 2002, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Yuan-Nan Young

  71. Mean flow in hexagonal convection: stability and nonlinear dynamics

    Article • Physica D Nonlinear Phenomena, March 2002, Elsevier

    Professor Yuan-Nan Young

  72. Shear instability of fluid interfaces: Stability analysis

    Article • Physical Review E, January 2002, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Yuan-Nan Young

  73. Stratified Kolmogorov flow

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, January 2002, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Yuan-Nan Young

  74. On the miscible Rayleigh–Taylor instability: two and three dimensions

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, October 2001, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Yuan-Nan Young

  75. Numerical simulation of double-diffusive convection in a rectangular box

    Article • Physical Review E, March 2000, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Yuan-Nan Young

  76. Flash code: studying astrophysical thermonuclear flashes

    Article • Computing in Science & Engineering, March 2000, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Yuan-Nan Young

  77. Linear and weakly nonlinear analysis of doubly diffusive vertical slot convection

    Article • Physical Review E, May 1998, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Yuan-Nan Young

  78. Linear stability analysis of doubly diffusive vertical slot convection

    Article • Physical Review E, January 1998, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Yuan-Nan Young