1. National Coastal-Inland Flood Model for Climate Change (Co-PI, Yuan’s contribution: ~$700 k, Public Utility Board, Singapore, 2021.4-2025.4)
2. Risk assessment and mitigation for seawall wave overtopping in the context of climate change (PI, S$ 627,200, Public Utility Board, 2018.4-2021.3)
3. On sediment transport in wave-current benthic boundary layer (co-PI, S$ 755,376, Ministry of Education, Tier-2, 2019.5-2022.5)
4. Eco-engineering Singapore’s seawalls for enhancing biodiversity (Collaborator, S$ 819,318.38, National Research Foundation, MSRDP program, 2016.10-2021.4)
5. An experimental study of coastal sediment transport under waves and currents(PI, S$ 45,000, Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, 2017.3-2018.1)
6. Full-scale experimental study of sediment transport by oscillatory flows and currents (PI, S$ 180,000, Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, 2015.4-2017.3)
7. Sheet-flow sediment transport in the coastal environment (PI, S$ 150,000, Ministry of Education, Tier-1, 2015.3-2018.8)
8. Sediment transport rates in combined wave-current flows (PI, S$ 167,417, Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, 2013.9-2015.3)
9. Turbulent bottom boundary layers under random waves (PI, S$179,900, Ministry of Education, NUS faculty member start-up fund, 2013.10-2016.10)
Journal publications:
corresponding author*, Supervised PhD. Student, Supervised Post-doc fellow
Yuan, J.* and O.S. Madsen (2014), Experimental study of turbulent oscillatory boundary layers in an oscillating water tunnel. Coastal Engineering. 89: p. 63-84 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.coastaleng.2014.03.007.
Yuan, J.* and O.S. Madsen (2015), Experimental and theoretical study of wave–current turbulent boundary layers. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 765: p. 480-523 doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2014.746.
Yuan, J.*, Turbulent boundary layers under irregular waves and currents: experiments and the equivalent-wave concept (2016). Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. 121(4): p. 2616-2640 doi: 10.1002/2015JC011551.
Yuan, J.* and S.M. Dash (2017), Experimental investigation of turbulent wave boundary layers under irregular coastal waves. Coastal Engineering. 128: p. 22-36 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coastaleng.2017.07.005.
Yuan, J.*, Z. Li, and O.S. Madsen (2017), Bottom-slope-induced net sheet-flow sediment transport rate under sinusoidal oscillatory flows. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. 122(1): p. 236-263 doi: 10.1002/2016JC011996.
Yuan, J.* and W. Tan (2018), Modeling net sheet-flow sediment transport rate under skewed and asymmetric oscillatory flows over a sloping bed. Coastal Engineering. 136: p. 65-80 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coastaleng.2018.02.004.
Yuan, J.* and D. Wang (2018), Experimental investigation of total bottom shear stress for oscillatory flows over sand ripples. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. 123(9): p. 6481-6502 doi:10.1029/2018JC013953.
Wang, D. and J. Yuan* (2018), Bottom‐slope‐induced net sediment transport rate under oscillatory flows in the rippled‐bed regime. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 123, 7308–7331. doi:10.1029/2018JC013810.
Önder, A. and J. Yuan (2019), Turbulent dynamics of sinusoidal oscillatory flow over a wavy bottom. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 858, 264-314. doi:10.1017/jfm.2018.754
Zhao, K., J. Yuan*, et al. (2019), Modelling surface temperature of granite seawalls in Singapore, Case Studies in Thermal Engineering 13: 100395.
Tan, W., and J. Yuan* (2019), Experimental study of sheet-flow sediment transport under nonlinear oscillatory flow over a sloping bed, Coastal Engineering, 147, 1-11. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coastaleng.2019.01.002.
Wang, D., and J. Yuan* (2019), Geometric characteristics of coarse-sand ripples generated by oscillatory flows: A full-scale experimental study. Coastal Engineering, 147, 159-174. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coastaleng.2019.02.007.
Yuan, J.*, and Wang, D. ( 2019), An experimental investigation of acceleration‐skewed oscillatory flow over vortex ripples. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 124., https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JC015487
Wang, D. and J. Yuan* (2020), Modelling of net sediment transport rate due to wave-driven oscillatory flows over vortex ripples Applied Ocean Research, vol. 94, p. 101979, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apor.2019.101979.
Wang, D. and J. Yuan* (2020), Measurements of net sediment transport rate under asymmetric oscillatory flows over wave-generated sand ripples, Coastal Engineering, vol. 155, p. 103583, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coastaleng.2019.103583
Cao, D., Chen, H*., & Yuan, J. (2021). Inline force on human body due to non-impulsive wave overtopping at a vertical seawall. Ocean Engineering, 219(October 2020), 108300. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2020.10830
Cao, D., Yuan, J.*, Chen, H., Zhao, K., & Li-Fan Liu, P. (2021). Wave overtopping flow striking a human body on the crest of an impermeable sloped seawall. Part I: physical modeling. Coastal Engineering, 167(September 2020), 103891. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coastaleng.2021.103891
Chen, H., Yuan, J*., Cao, D., & Liu, P. (2021). Wave overtopping flow striking a human body on the crest of an impermeable sloped seawall. Part II: Numerical modelling. Coastal Engineering, 103892. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coastaleng.2021.103892
Tan, W., and Yuan, J* (2021). A two-layer numerical model for coastal sheet-flow sediment transport. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 126, e2021JC017241.
Cao, D., Chen, H, Yuan, J.* (2021). Towards modeling wave-induced forces on an armour layer unit of rubble mound coastal revetments. Ocean Engineering (Accepted).
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