My current research focuses on

• Nonlinear aeroelastic stability and flow control by the morphing structure, turbo-machinery or fluid machinery with low Reynolds number by smart structures;
• Lagrangian description for unsteady flow; Momentum transfer; Lobe dynamics; Targeted energy transfer; Localization of energy; Resonance energy exchange;
• Low-velocity wind turbine with local adaptive aeroelastic structures; Energy capture by phase transition;
• The application of nonlinear dynamics to the drag reduction, lift enhancement, aero-heating, dynamic stall, and the numerical method, active aeroelastic structures;
• The dynamics in shock wave, plasma, soliton and rarefied gas dynamics for super-sonic flow; Cavity and energy accumulation with cavitation; 
• The dynamics and the reduction of the continuum dynamic system with infinite-dimension or large degree-of-freedom based on the Inertial Manifold theories;
• Instability, sequence-bifurcation, the spatiotemporal pattern formation for the complex fluid mechanics; Hierarchical structures or states; Macroscopic quantum phenomena;
• The nonlinearity and singularity of N-S equation in view of the point of mathematics and the route to turbulence; Nonlinear non-equilibrium atmospheric thermal dynamics;
• The Lagrangian coherent structure in the fluid flow; Study fluid dynamics on manifolds; Vortex dynamics analysis in Lagrangian frame;  
• Stability and bifurcation in rotor dynamics, and rotordynamics software; Vibration localization or nonlinear dynamics in the system with periodic or symmetric structure; 
• Buckling and post-buckling of thin-walled structure from viewpoint of bifurcation and chaos, and the multiscale numerical simulation for the flow in porous media;
• Multi-phase flow and cavitation in turbo-pump, Self-organized criticality;
• Application for nonlinear dynamics: the drag reduction, vibration reduction and sound reduction of moving body over flow by active aeroelastic surfaces or walls.

Editorial Activity:

• Member of International scientific committee and organizing committee for Nonlinear Science and Complexity; Committee for Chaos, Complexity and Transport; Committee for Analysis and Control of Chaotic Systems; Committee for Chaotic Modeling and Simulation; Committee member for Topical Problems of Nonlinear Wave Physics.
• Member of Editorial Board: Journal of Applied Nonlinear Dynamics, Journal of Propulsion Technology;
• Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Enviromental Accounting and Management;
• Associate Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Advances in Aerodynamics.
• Chairman of 5th Conference on Nonlinear Science and Complexity. Website：http: //nsc2014.xjtu.edu.cn.