Wenbo Tang
Associate Professor,
School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences
Other ASU affiliations
Associate Professor,
Mathematics
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Phone: 480-965-1476
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WXLR 837 Arizona State University Tempe, AZ 85287
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Mail code: 1804Campus: Tempe
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Long Bio
Wenbo Tang’s research concerns the nonlinear dynamics of fluids that are relevant in environmental sciences and geophysics. He and his research team develop mathematical models and numerical algorithms to explain the mechanisms of mixing processes in fluid flows. In particular, their focus is on the dynamics and transport of energy, chemicals and pollutants in oceanic and atmospheric flows. Using recently developed mathematical tools; these studies target at the mixing of substances where the underlining fluid flow is strongly chaotic and complex, which provides new insights from the last generation of theories and models where the underlining turbulence was assumed to be uniformly random. These new perspectives help the development of next generation regional and global models for environmental and geophysical processes.
Education
Ph.D. University of California-San Diego 2005
Research Interests
Theoretical, Numerical studies of mixing and chaotic transport in environmental, geophysical and engineering flows
Publications
- Hon, K. K., Chan, P. W., Chiu, Y. Y., Tang, W. Application of Short-range LIDAR in Early Alerting for Low level Windshear and Turbulence at the Hong Kong International Airport. Advances in Meteorology (2014).
- Wenbo Tang, Alex Mahalov. The response of charged density due to breaking inertial gravity wave in the lower regions of ionosphere. Physics of Plasmas (2014).
- Tang, W., Luna, C. and Dhumuntarao, A. Biological reactions with coherent structures. Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach Reports (2014).
- Wenbo Tang, Alex Mahalov. Stochastic Lagrangian dynamics for charged flows in the E-F regions of ionosphere. Physics of Plasmas (2013).
- Wenbo Tang, Christopher Luna. Dependence of advection-diffusion-reaction on flow coherent structures. Physics of Fluids (2013).
- Wenbo Tang, Brent Knutson, Alex Mahalov, Reneta Dimitrova. The geometry of inertial particle mixing in urban flows, from deterministic and random displacement models. Physics of Fluids (2012).
- Wenbo Tang, Phillip Walker. Finite-time statistics of scalar diffusion in Lagrangian coherent structures. Phys. Rev. E (2012).
- Wenbo Tang, Pak Wai Chan, George Haller. Lagrangian Characterization of Terrain Induced Turbulence Based on LIDAR Observations. Part I: Turbulence structure detection. J. Appl. Meteor. Clim (2011).
- Wenbo Tang, Pak Wai Chan, George Haller. Lagrangian Characterization of Terrain Induced Turbulence Based on LIDAR Observations. Part II: Flow Characteristics and Airplane Approaches. J. Appl. Meteor. Clim (2011).
- Wenbo Tang, Jay Taylor, Alex Mahalov. Stochastic Lagrangian Coherent Structures of Inertia-Gravity Waves. Physics of Fluids (2010).
- Wenbo Tang, Manikandan Mathur, George Haller, Douglas C. Hahn and Frank H. Ruggiero. Lagrangian Coherent Structures near a subtropical jet stream. Journal of Atmospheric Sciences (2010).
- Wenbo Tang, Pak Wai Chan, George Haller. Accurate extraction of Lagrangian coherent structures over finite domains with application to flight data analysis over Hong Kong International Airport. Chaos (2010).
- Wenbo Tang, Thomas Peacock. Lagrangian Coherent Structures and internal wave attractors. Chaos (2010).
- Wenbo Tang, George Haller, Pak Wai Chan. Lagrangian Coherent Structures in Finite Domains. 16th US National Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (2010).
- Wenbo Tang, Colm Caulfield, Rich Kerswell. A prediction for the optimal stratification for turbulent mixing. Journal of Fluid Mechanics (2009).
- Wenbo Tang, George Haller, Jong-Jin Baik and Young-Hee Ryu. Locating an Atmospheric Contamination Source Using Slow Manifolds. Physics of Fluids (2009).
- Wenbo Tang, George Haller and Pak Wai Chan. Lagrangian Coherent Structures and Turbulence Detection near the Hong Kong International Airport based on LIDAR Measurements. American Meteorological Society 17th Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics (0).
Research Activity
- Tang,Wenbo*. Collaborative Research: Theories and experiments on scalar mixing in chaotic flows. NSF-MPS-DMS(9/1/2012 - 8/31/2016).
- Kostelich,Eric John*, Armbruster,Hans Dieter, Czygrinow,Andrzej Michal, Fishel,Susanna, Gelb,Anne, Jacobs,Mark, Kawski,Matthias, Kuang,Yang, Mahalov,Alex, Moustaoui,Mohamed, Platte,Rodrigo B, Tang,Wenbo. MCTP: Mathematics Mentoring Partnership Between Arizona State University and the Maricopa County Community College District. NSF-MPS-DMS(7/15/2012 - 6/30/2017).
- Mahalov,Alex*, Fernando,H J S, Huang,Huei-Ping, Moustaoui,Mohamed, Tang,Wenbo. CMG Research: Multiscale Modeling of Urban Atmosphere in a Changing Climate. NSF-MPS-DMS(9/1/2009 - 8/31/2014).
- Mittelmann,Renate M*, Fernando,H J S, Herrmann,Marcus, Huang,Huei-Ping, Lopez,Juan Manuel, Mahalov,Alex, Tang,Wenbo. Plant Fund: SCREMS: Visualization of Complex Spatio-Temporal Multiscale Fluid Dynamic Phenomena. NSF-MPS-DMS(8/1/2009 - 7/31/2010).
Teaching Website URL
Courses
2025 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| MAT 493 | Honors Thesis |
| MAT 599 | Thesis |
| APM 502 | Differential Equations II |
| APM 792 | Research |
| APM 799 | Dissertation |
| MAT 495 | Undergraduate Research |
2024 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| MAT 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| MAT 493 | Honors Thesis |
| APM 792 | Research |
| APM 799 | Dissertation |
| MAT 495 | Undergraduate Research |
| MAT 275 | Modern Differential Equations |
| MAT 599 | Thesis |
2024 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| APM 792 | Research |
| APM 792 | Research |
2024 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| MAT 493 | Honors Thesis |
| MAT 599 | Thesis |
| APM 502 | Differential Equations II |
| APM 792 | Research |
| APM 799 | Dissertation |
| MAT 425 | Numerical Analysis II |
| MAT 495 | Undergraduate Research |
| MAT 591 | Seminar |
2023 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| MAT 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| MAT 493 | Honors Thesis |
| APM 792 | Research |
| APM 799 | Dissertation |
| MAT 495 | Undergraduate Research |
| MAT 591 | Seminar |
| MAT 599 | Thesis |
| MAT 452 | Intro Chaos/Nonlinear Dynamics |
2023 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| APM 792 | Research |
| APM 792 | Research |
2023 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| MAT 493 | Honors Thesis |
| MAT 599 | Thesis |
| APM 792 | Research |
| APM 799 | Dissertation |
| MAT 425 | Numerical Analysis II |
| MAT 343 | Applied Linear Algebra |
| MAT 495 | Undergraduate Research |
2022 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| MAT 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| MAT 493 | Honors Thesis |
| APM 792 | Research |
| APM 799 | Dissertation |
| MAT 495 | Undergraduate Research |
| MAT 343 | Applied Linear Algebra |
| MAT 599 | Thesis |
2022 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| APM 792 | Research |
| APM 792 | Research |
2022 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| MAT 493 | Honors Thesis |
| MAT 599 | Thesis |
| APM 792 | Research |
| APM 799 | Dissertation |
| MAT 495 | Undergraduate Research |
2021 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| MAT 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| MAT 493 | Honors Thesis |
| APM 792 | Research |
| APM 799 | Dissertation |
| MAT 495 | Undergraduate Research |
2021 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| APM 792 | Research |
| APM 792 | Research |
2021 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| MAT 493 | Honors Thesis |
| MAT 599 | Thesis |
| APM 792 | Research |
| APM 799 | Dissertation |
| MAT 343 | Applied Linear Algebra |
| MAT 495 | Undergraduate Research |
| APM 560 | Applied Dynamical Systems |
2020 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| MAT 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| MAT 493 | Honors Thesis |
| APM 792 | Research |
| APM 799 | Dissertation |
| MAT 599 | Thesis |
| MAT 495 | Undergraduate Research |
| MAT 343 | Applied Linear Algebra |
2020 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| APM 792 | Research |
| APM 792 | Research |
2020 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| MAT 493 | Honors Thesis |
| MAT 599 | Thesis |
| APM 792 | Research |
| APM 799 | Dissertation |
| MAT 495 | Undergraduate Research |
| MAT 462 | Applied Partial Diff Equations |
| APM 560 | Applied Dynamical Systems |
Service
- American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics annual conference 2014., Chair of a session (2014 - 2014)
- The 10th AIMS Conference on Dynamical Systems, Differential Equations and Applications., Special session 118 co-organizer and co-chair (2013 - 2014)
- American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics annual conference 2012., Chair of a session (2012 - 2012)
- The 9th AIMS Conference on Dynamical Systems, Differential Equations and Applications., Special session 27 co-organizer and co-chair (2011 - 2012)
- Basis Scottsdale High School, Invited speaker (2011 - 2011)
- 16th US National Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics., Session Co-chair (2010 - 2010)
- 8th AIMS conference on Dynamical Systems, Differential Equations and Applications, Session Co-chair (2009 - 2010)
- Math Colloquia and Distinguished Lectures, Co-chair (2009 - 2010)
- Basis Scottsdale High School, Invited speaker (2009 - 2009)
- Math Colloquia and Distinguished Lectures, Co-chair (2008 - 2009)