Da Zhu

zhuda at uchicago dot edu or dazhu at mit dot edu
77 Massachusetts Ave
54-1721
Cambridge,MA 02139

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Research:

EAPS at M.I.T.

Postdoc Associate

09/2010-present

Faculty supervisor: Glenn Flierl

University of Chicago	Ph.D.	08/2010	Geophysical Sciences	Advisor: Noboru Nakamura
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	M.S.	05/2005	Applied Math
Fudan University, China	B.S.	07/2003	Math

Zhu, D. and N. Nakamura, 2010: On the representation of Rossby waves on the beta-plane by a piecewise uniform potential vorticity distribution
Journal of Fluid Mechanics (2010) Vol. 664 pp.397-406
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Nakamura,N. and D. Zhu, 2010: Finite-amplitude wave activity and diffusive flux of potential vorticity in eddy-mean flow interaction
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences (2010) Vol.67 2701-2716
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Nakamura.N, and D. Zhu, 2010: Formation of jets through mixing and forcing of potential vorticity: analysis and parameterization of beta-plane turbulence
Journal of the Atmopheric Sciences (2010) Vol.67 2717-2733
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Lim,C. and D.Zhu, 2005:Variational analysis of energy-enstrophy theory on the sphere
Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems, supplement volume Aug 2005,611-620
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Student scholarship on workshop on climate dynamics, Princeton University, May 3-13, 2009
Plumbfest 2008 student scholarship award, Columbia University, Oct 24-25, 2008
Graduate student scolarship,NCAR Geophysical turbulence summer school, July 14-August 1 2008
Honorable Mention in 2002 Interdisciplinary contest in Modeling
Honorable Mention in 2001 China undergraduate mathematical contest in modeling (CUMCM)
Meritorious in 2001 CUMCM Shanghai regional contest

Matlab, Fortran, Python, IDL