Yaoxuan ZengGraduate Student

Research Focus:

Planetary Science, Physical Oceanography

Email:

yxzeng@uchicago.edu

Office:

Hinds 433

Biography

BS, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Peking University, 2020.
Research Assistant with Professor Jun Yang at AOS, Peking University, 2020-2021.

Publications

Yaoxuan Zeng, and Malte F. Jansen: A parameterization scheme for slantwise convection on icy moon oceans. In prep.

Yaoxuan Zeng, Wanying Kang, Glenn R. Flierl, and Geoffrey K. Vallis. Linking potential vorticity mixing and jets on giant planets. To be submitted to Nature Astronomy.

Yaoxuan Zeng, and Malte F. Jansen: Symmetric instability of Boussinesq fluid on a rotating planet. To be submitted to Journal of Fluid Mechanics.

Yaoxuan Zeng, and Malte F. Jansen: The effect of salinity on ocean circulation and ice- ocean interaction on Enceladus, The Planetary Science Journal 5, no. 1 (2024): 13

Malte F. Jansen, Wanying Kang, Edwin Kite, and Yaoxuan Zeng: Energetic constraints on ocean circulation of icy ocean worlds, The Planetary Science Journal 4, no. 6 (2023): 117.

Yaoxuan Zeng, and Malte F. Jansen: Ocean Circulation on Enceladus with a High- versus Low-salinity Ocean, The Planetary Science Journal, 2021, 2, 4, doi:10.3847/PSJ/ac1114

Yaoxuan Zeng, and Jun Yang: Oceanic Superrotation on Tidally Locked Planets, The Astrophysical Journal, 2021, 909, 172.

Jun Yang, Weiwen Ji, and Yaoxuan Zeng: Transition from Eyeball to Snowball Driven by Sea-ice Drift on Tidally Locked Terrestrial Planets, Nature Astronomy, 2020, 4, 58-66.