Yaoxuan ZengGraduate Student

Research Focus:

Planetary Science, Physical Oceanography

Email:

yxzeng@uchicago.edu

Office:

Hinds 489

Education and Appointments

GFD Fellow, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Jun-Aug 2023.
Research Assistant with Professor Jun Yang at AOS, Peking University, 2020-2021.
BS, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Peking University, 2020.

 

Publications

Yaoxuan Zeng, and Malte F. Jansen: Interplay between slantwise convection and baroclinic eddies in the icy moon ocean. In prep.

Yaoxuan Zeng, and Malte F. Jansen: Slantwise convection and heat transport in the icy moon oceans. Submitted to Geophysical Research Letters. https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06480

Yaoxuan Zeng, Wanying Kang, Glenn R. Flierl, and Geoffrey K. Vallis. Influence of jet depth on the equatorial jet direction on giant planets. Submitted to The Planetary Science Journal. https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.17828

Yaoxuan Zeng, and Malte F. Jansen: Symmetric instability of Boussinesq fluid on a rotating planet. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets 130, no. 7 (2025): e2025JE009115.

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.