Dr Zhihua Xie

2026

• Ding, W. et al., 2026. Coupled aerodynamic–structural optimization of floating wind farms with heterogeneous turbine configurations under wake interactions and turbine yaw misalignment. Ocean Engineering 364 (Part 3) 127153. (10.1016/j.oceaneng.2026.127153)
• Guo, B. et al. 2026. A lattice Boltzmann method for floating oscillating water column WECs. Applied Ocean Research 175 105206. (10.1016/j.apor.2026.105206)
• Doherty, W. et al. 2026. Interface normal and curvature calculation for the conservative level set method. Journal of Computational Physics 547 114555. (10.1016/j.jcp.2025.114555)

2025

• Guo, B. et al. 2025. A Lattice Boltzmann method for free surface flows over partially submerged structures. Computer Physics Communications 317 109852. (10.1016/j.cpc.2025.109852)
• Guo, B. et al. 2025. An interpolated bounce-back based lattice boltzmann method for floating structures interacting with free surface flows. Journal of Computational Physics 540 114293. (10.1016/j.jcp.2025.114293)
• Guo, B. et al. 2025. Non-axisymmetric oscillating water column wave energy converter: A semi-analytical study. Physics of Fluids 37 (10) 107107. (10.1063/5.0293326)
• Chen, Y. et al. 2025. Coupling of non-hydrostatic model with unresolved point-particle model for simulating particle-laden free surface flows. Applied Mathematical Modelling 142 115962. (10.1016/j.apm.2025.115962)
• Liu, P. et al., 2025. A mollified sharp-interface direct forcing method for suppressing spurious oscillations in moving immersed body simulations. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids 97 (6), pp.893-913. (10.1002/fld.5382)
• Christou, A. and Xie, Z. 2025. Fluid-structure interactions based on a large eddy simulations numerical wave tank [Abstract]. Book of Extended Abstracts of the 41st IAHR World Congress (Singapore, 2025) 39241.
• Hergibo, P. , Phillips, T. N. and Xie, Z. 2025. An adaptive dual grid moment-of-fluid method for multiphase flows. Journal of Computational Physics 530 113908. (10.1016/j.jcp.2025.113908)
• Christou, A. , Stoesser, T. and Xie, Z. 2025. Large eddy simulation of three-dimensional vortex structures in cnoidal waves over a submerged step. Journal of Hydraulic Research 63 (3), pp.297-319. (10.1080/00221686.2025.2476432)
• Chen, Y. et al. 2025. A double-layer non-hydrostatic model for simulating wave-structure and wave-jet interactions. Journal of Computational Physics 523 113634. (10.1016/j.jcp.2024.113634)

2024

• Hergibo, P. , Phillips, T. N. and Xie, Z. 2024. Resolving subgrid-scale structures for multiphase flows using a filament moment-of-fluid method. Computers & Fluids 285 106455. (10.1016/j.compfluid.2024.106455)
• Doherty, W. , Phillips, T. N. and Xie, Z. 2024. The log-conformation formulation for single- and multi-phase axisymmetric viscoelastic flows. Journal of Computational Physics 508 113014. (10.1016/j.jcp.2024.113014)
• Hergibo, P. et al. 2024. A quadtree-based adaptive moment-of-fluid method for interface reconstruction with filaments. Journal of Computational Physics 499 112719. (10.1016/j.jcp.2023.112719)
• Lopez, S. M. et al. 2024. A new ghost-cell/level-set method for three-dimensional flows. Journal of Computational Physics 499 112710. (10.1016/j.jcp.2023.112710)

2023

• Xie, Z. and Stoesser, T. 2023. Turbulence structure due to wave-vegetation interaction. In: Sriram, V. et al., Hydrodynamics of Wave-Vegetation Interactions. Vol. 14, Advances in Coastal and Ocean Engineering WSPC. , pp.179-202. (10.1142/9789811284144_0008)
• Chen, Y. et al. 2023. Turbulence properties of a vertical round jet in a wavy-crossflow environment. Ocean Engineering 288 116040. (10.1016/j.oceaneng.2023.116040)
• Hergibo, P. , Phillips, T. N. and Xie, Z. 2023. A moment-of-fluid method for resolving filamentary structures using a symmetric multi-material approach. Journal of Computational Physics 491 112401. (10.1016/j.jcp.2023.112401)
• Wu, F. et al. 2023. Power-controlled acoustofluidic manipulation of microparticles. Ultrasonics 134 107087. (10.1016/j.ultras.2023.107087)
• Luo, Q. et al., 2023. Hydrodynamics and turbulence of free-surface flow over a backward-facing step. Journal of Hydraulic Research 61 (5), pp.611-630. (10.1080/00221686.2023.2239751)
• Zhang, N. et al., 2023. A CNN-supported Lagrangian ISPH model for free surface flow. Applied Ocean Research 136 103587. (10.1016/j.apor.2023.103587)
• Li, Q. et al., 2023. Numerical modelling of breaking wave impacts on seawalls with recurved parapets using qaleFOAM. International Journal of Offshore and Polar Engineering 33 (2), pp.157-163. (10.17736/ijope.2023.sv05)
• Saincher, S. et al., 2023. Comparative study on breaking waves interaction with vertical wall retrofitted with recurved parapet in small and large scale. International Journal of Offshore and Polar Engineering 33 (2)(10.17736/ijope.2023.jc890)
• Wang, H. et al. 2023. An enhanced tilted-angle acoustic tweezer for mechanical phenotyping of cancer cells. Analytica Chimica Acta 1255 341120. (10.1016/j.aca.2023.341120)
• Doherty, W. , Phillips, T. N. and Xie, Z. 2023. A stabilised finite element framework for viscoelastic multiphase flows using a conservative level-set method. Journal of Computational Physics 477 111936. (10.1016/j.jcp.2023.111936)
• Wang, H. et al. 2023. Modelling hybrid acoustofluidic devices for enhancing nano- and micro-particle manipulation in microfluidics. Applied Acoustics 205 109258. (10.1016/j.apacoust.2023.109258)

2022

• Zhang, C. et al., 2022. Coupling effects of top-end dynamic boundary with a planar trajectory of "8" on three-dimensional VIV characteristics. Marine Structures 86 103304. (10.1016/j.marstruc.2022.103304)
• Sun, C. et al., 2022. Acoustically accelerated neural differentiation of human embryonic stem cells. Acta Biomaterialia 151 , pp.333-345. (10.1016/j.actbio.2022.07.041)
• Xie, Z. 2022. An implicit Cartesian cut-cell method for incompressible viscous flows with complex geometries. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 399 115449. (10.1016/j.cma.2022.115449)
• Xie, Z. , Lin, P. and Stoesser, T. 2022. A conservative and consistent implicit Cartesian cut-cell method for moving geometries with reduced spurious pressure oscillations. Journal of Computational Physics 459 111124. (10.1016/j.jcp.2022.111124)
• Brocchini, M. et al., 2022. Interaction between breaking-induced vortices and near-bed structures. Part 1. Experimental and theoretical investigation. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 940 A44. (10.1017/jfm.2022.260)
• Ai, C. et al., 2022. An efficient 3D non-hydrostatic model for predicting nonlinear wave interactions with fixed floating structures. Ocean Engineering 248 110810. (10.1016/j.oceaneng.2022.110810)
• Xie, Z. and Lin, P. 2022. Eulerian and Lagrangian transport by shallow-water breaking waves. Physics of Fluids 34 (3) 032116. (10.1063/5.0086434)
• Ai, C. et al., 2022. Vortex shedding and evolution induced by the interactions between a solitary wave and a submerged horizontal plate. Journal of Hydraulic Research 60 (2), pp.311-325. (10.1080/00221686.2021.2001594)
• Li, Q. et al., 2022. Physical modelling of energy losses at surcharged three-way junction manholes in drainage system. Water Science and Technology 85 (4), pp.1011-1026. 639. (10.2166/wst.2021.639)
• Li, Q. et al., 2022. Hazard and vulnerability in urban inundated underground space: Hydrodynamic analysis of human instability for stairway evacuation. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 70 102754. (10.1016/j.ijdrr.2021.102754)
• Ai, C. et al., 2022. Three-dimensional non-hydrostatic model for dam-break flows. Physics of Fluids 34 (2) 022105. (10.1063/5.0081094)
• Adzic, F. et al., 2022. Large-eddy simulation of supercritical free-surface flow in an open-channel contraction. Journal of Hydraulic Research 60 (4), pp.628-644. (10.1080/00221686.2022.2041496)
• Xie, Z. et al. 2022. Large-eddy simulation of turbulent free surface flow over a gravel bed. Journal of Hydraulic Research 60 (2), pp.205-219. (10.1080/00221686.2021.1908437)

2021

• Ai, C. et al., 2021. An efficient three-dimensional non-hydrostatic model for undular bores in open channels. Physics of Fluids 33 (12) 127111. (10.1063/5.0073241)
• Christou, A. , Stoesser, T. and Xie, Z. 2021. A large-eddy-simulation-based numerical wave tank for three-dimensional wave-structure interaction. Computers and Fluids 231 105179. (10.1016/j.compfluid.2021.105179)
• Xie, Z. , Stoesser, T. and Xia, J. 2021. Simulation of three-dimensional free-surface dam-break flows over a cuboid, cylinder, and sphere. Journal of Hydraulic Engineering 147 (9) 06021009. (10.1061/%28ASCE%29HY.1943-7900.0001910)
• Ai, C. et al., 2021. A three-dimensional non-hydrostatic model for tsunami waves generated by submarine landslides. Applied Mathematical Modelling 96 , pp.1-19. (10.1016/j.apm.2021.02.014)
• Jalalabadi, R. et al., 2021. Free surface flow over square bars at different Reynolds numbers. Journal of Hydro-environment Research 36 , pp.67-76. (10.1016/j.jher.2021.03.005)
• Li, Q. et al., 2021. A fifth-order high-resolution shock-capturing scheme based on modified weighted essentially non-oscillatory method and boundary variation diminishing framework for compressible flows and compressible two-phase flows. Physics of Fluids 33 (5) 056104. (10.1063/5.0045635)
• Wu, F. et al. 2021. An enhanced tilted-angle acoustofluidic chip for cancer cell manipulation. IEEE Electron Device Letters 42 (4), pp.577-580. (10.1109/LED.2021.3062292)
• Agarwal, S. et al., 2021. A comparative study on the nonlinear interaction between a focusing wave and cylinder using state-of-the-art solvers: part B. International Journal of Offshore and Polar Engineering 31 (1), pp.11-18. (10.17736/ijope.2021.jc832)
• Lu, L. et al., 2021. Three-dimensional viscous numerical simulations of focused waves on bottom-mounted multiple rigid circular cylinders. International Journal of Offshore and Polar Engineering 31 (1), pp.61-70. (10.17736/ijope.2021.jc822)
• Ransley, E. J. et al., 2021. Focused wave interactions with floating structures: A blind comparative study. Engineering and Computational Mechanics 174 (1), pp.46-61. (10.1680/jencm.20.00006)
• Venkatachalam, S. et al., 2021. A comparative study on the nonlinear interaction between a focusing wave and cylinder using state-of-the-art solvers: part A. International Journal of Offshore and Polar Engineering 31 (1), pp.1-10. (10.17736/ijope.2021.jc820)
• Christou, A. et al., 2021. Propagation of a solitary wave over a finite submerged thin plate. Applied Ocean Research 106 (10.1016/j.apor.2020.102425)
• Sun, C. et al., 2021. Flexible printed circuit board as novel electrodes for acoustofluidic devices. IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices 68 (1), pp.393-398. (10.1109/TED.2020.3039760)
• Xie, Z. et al. 2021. Numerical investigation of steep focused wave interaction with a vertical cylinder using a cartesian cut-cell method. International Journal of Offshore and Polar Engineering 31 (1), pp.78-86. (10.17736/ijope.2021.jc809)

2020

• Sun, C. et al., 2020. Thin film gallium nitride (GaN) based acoustofluidic tweezer: modelling and microparticle manipulation. Ultrasonics 108 106202. (10.1016/j.ultras.2020.106202)
• Via-Estrem, L. et al., 2020. Robust control volume finite element methods for numerical wave tanks using extreme adaptive anisotropic meshes. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids 92 (12), pp.1707-1722. (10.1002/fld.4845)
• Xie, Z. et al. 2020. A Cartesian cut-cell based multiphase flow model for large-eddy simulation of three-dimensional wave-structure interaction. Computers and Fluids 213 104747. (10.1016/j.compfluid.2020.104747)
• Xie, Z. and Stoesser, T. 2020. Two-phase flow simulation of breaking solitary waves over surface-piercing and submerged conical structures. Ocean Engineering 213 107679. (10.1016/j.oceaneng.2020.107679)
• Wang, J. et al., 2020. Numerical simulation of focused wave interaction with WEC models using qaleFOAM. Engineering and Computational Mechanics 173 (3), pp.100-118. (10.1680/jencm.19.00035)
• Zhang, C. et al., 2020. Experimental investigation on the VIV of a slender body under the combination of uniform flow and top-end surge. Ocean Engineering 216 108094. (10.1016/j.oceaneng.2020.108094)
• Xie, Z. and Stoesser, T. 2020. A three-dimensional Cartesian cut-cell/volume-of-fluid method for two-phase flows with moving bodies. Journal of Computational Physics 416 109536. (10.1016/j.jcp.2020.109536)
• Sun, C. et al., 2020. Gallium nitride: a versatile compound semiconductor as novel piezoelectric film for acoustic tweezer in manipulation of cancer cells. IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices 67 (8), pp.3355-3361. (10.1109/TED.2020.3002498)
• Xie, Z. et al. 2020. A control volume finite element method for three-dimensional three-phase flows. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids 92 (7), pp.765-784. (10.1002/fld.4805)
• Mikhaylov, R. et al. 2020. Development and characterisation of acoustofluidic devices using detachable electrodes made from PCB. Lab on a Chip 20 (10), pp.1807-1814. (10.1039/C9LC01192G)
• Ransley, E. et al., 2020. A blind comparative study of focused wave Interactions with floating structures (CCP-WSI Blind Test Series 3). International Journal of Offshore and Polar Engineering 30 (1), pp.1-10. (10.17736/ijope.2020.jc774)
• Yan, S. et al., 2020. CCP-WSI Blind Test using qaleFOAM with an improved passive wave absorber. International Journal of Offshore and Polar Engineering 30 (1), pp.43-52. (10.17736/ijope.2020.jc781)
• Fang, K. et al., 2020. Development and validation of a two-layer Boussinesq model for simulating free surface waves generated by bottom motion. Applied Ocean Research 94 101977. (10.1016/j.apor.2019.101977)
• Salinas, P. et al., 2020. Vanishing artificial diffusion as a mechanism to accelerate convergence for multiphase porous media flow. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 359 112535. (10.1016/j.cma.2019.07.004)

2019

• Xie, Z. et al. 2019. Three-dimensional numerical study of solitary waves interacting with a horizontal plate. Presented at: 29th International Ocean and Polar Engineering Conference Honolulu; US 16-21 June 2019. Proceedings of the Twenty-ninth (2019) International Ocean and Polar Engineering Conference. Vol. 3.US: International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers (ISOPE). , pp.2733-2738.
• Yan, S. et al., 2019. Numerical simulation of wave structure interaction using qalefoam. Presented at: 29th International Ocean and Polar Engineering Conference Honolulu, HA, US 16-21 June 2019. Proceedings of the International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference. US: International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers (ISOPE). , pp.3089-3095.
• Ransley, E. et al., 2019. A blind comparative study of focused wave interactions with a fixed FPSO-like structure (CCP-WSI Blind Test Series 1). International Journal of Offshore and Polar Engineering 29 (2), pp.113-127. (10.17736/ijope.2019.jc748)
• Yan, S. et al., 2019. Comparative numerical study on focusing wave interaction with FPSO-like structure. Journal of Offshore and Polar Engineering (IJOPE) 29 (2), pp.149-157.

2018

• Salinas, P. et al., 2018. A robust mesh optimisation method for multiphase porous media flows. Computational Geosciences 22 (5), pp.1389-1401. (10.1007/s10596-018-9759-z)
• Lei, Q. et al., 2018. The shape and motion of gas bubbles in a liquid flowing through a thin annulus. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 855 , pp.1017-1039. (10.1017/jfm.2018.696)
• Tang, G. et al., 2018. Impulse waves generated by subaerial landslides of combined block mass and granular material. Coastal Engineering 141 , pp.-. (10.1016/j.coastaleng.2018.09.003)
• Salinas, P. et al., 2018. A discontinuous control volume finite element method for multi-phase flow in heterogeneous porous media. Journal of Computational Physics 352 , pp.602-614. (10.1016/j.jcp.2017.09.058)

2017

• Salinas, P. et al., 2017. Improving the robustness of the control volume finite element method with application to multiphase porous media flow. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids 85 (4), pp.235-246. (10.1002/fld.4381)
• Xie, Z. et al. 2017. Numerical simulation of three-dimensional breaking waves and its interaction with a vertical circular cylinder. Journal of Hydrodynamics 29 (5), pp.800-804. (10.1016/S1001-6058(16)60791-6)
• Xie, Z. 2017. Numerical modelling of wind effects on breaking waves in the surf zone. Ocean Dynamics 67 (10), pp.1251-1261. (10.1007/s10236-017-1086-8)
• Salinas, P. et al., 2017. Improving the convergence behaviour of a fixed-point-iteration solver for multiphase flow in porous media. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids 84 (8), pp.466-476. (10.1002/fld.4357)
• Xie, Z. et al. 2017. Numerical study of three-dimensional droplet impact on a flowing liquid film in annular two-phase flow. Chemical Engineering Science 166 , pp.303-312. (10.1016/j.ces.2017.04.015)
• Nowak, E. et al., 2017. Bulk advection and interfacial flows in the binary coalescence of surfactant-laden and surfactant-free drops. Soft Matter 13 (26), pp.4616-4628. (10.1039/C7SM00328E)
• Adebayo, I. et al., 2017. Doubly excited pulse waves on thin liquid films flowing down an inclined plane: an experimental and numerical study. Physical Review E 96 (1) 013118. (10.1103/PhysRevE.96.013118)
• Gomes, J. L. M. A. et al., 2017. A force-balanced control volume finite element method for multi-phase porous media flow modelling. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids 83 (5), pp.431-445. (10.1002/fld.4275)

2016

• Xie, Z. et al. 2016. A balanced-force control volume finite element method for interfacial flows with surface tension using adaptive anisotropic unstructured meshes. Computers and Fluids 138 , pp.38-50. (10.1016/j.compfluid.2016.08.005)
• Adam, A. et al., 2016. Higher-order conservative interpolation between control-volume meshes: Application to advection and multiphase flow problems with dynamic mesh adaptivity. Journal of Computational Physics 321 , pp.512-531. (10.1016/j.jcp.2016.05.058)
• Lu, L. et al., 2016. Numerical investigation of flow-induced rotary oscillation of circular cylinder with rigid splitter plate. Physics of Fluids 28 (9) 093604. (10.1063/1.4962706)
• Pavlidis, D. et al., 2016. Compressive advection and multi-component methods for interface-capturing. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids 80 (4), pp.256-282. (10.1002/fld.4078)

2015

• Xie, Z. 2015. A two-phase flow model for three-dimensional breaking waves over complex topography. Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 471 (2180) 20150101. (10.1098/rspa.2015.0101)
• Pavlidis, D. et al., 2015. Numerical modelling of melt behaviour in the lower vessel head of a nuclear reactor. Procedia IUTAM 15 , pp.72-77. (10.1016/j.piutam.2015.04.011)

2014

• Xie, Z. , Lin, B. and Falconer, R. A. 2014. Turbulence characteristics in free-surface flow over two-dimensional dunes. Journal of Hydro-Environment Research 8 (3), pp.200-209. (10.1016/j.jher.2014.01.002)
• Pavlidis, D. et al., 2014. Two- and three-phase horizontal slug flow simulations using an interface-capturing compositional approach. International Journal of Multiphase Flow 67 , pp.85-91. (10.1016/j.ijmultiphaseflow.2014.07.007)
• Percival, J. R. et al., 2014. Control volume finite element modelling of segregation of sand and granular flows in fluidized beds. International Journal of Multiphase Flow 67 , pp.191-199. (10.1016/j.ijmultiphaseflow.2014.10.002)
• Xie, Z. 2014. Numerical modelling of wind effects on breaking solitary waves. European Journal of Mechanics - B/Fluids 43 , pp.135-147. (10.1016/j.euromechflu.2013.08.001)
• Xie, Z. et al. 2014. Adaptive unstructured mesh modelling of multiphase flows. International Journal of Multiphase Flow 67 , pp.104-110. (10.1016/j.ijmultiphaseflow.2014.08.002)

2013

• Xie, Z. 2013. Two-phase flow modelling of spilling and plunging breaking waves. Applied Mathematical Modelling 37 (6), pp.3698-3713. (10.1016/j.apm.2012.07.057)
• Xie, Z. , Lin, B. and Falconer, R. A. 2013. Large-eddy simulation of the turbulent structure in compound open-channel flows. Advances in Water Resources 53 , pp.66-75. (10.1016/j.advwatres.2012.10.009)
• Xie, Z. et al. 2013. Large-eddy simulation of turbulent open-channel flow over three-dimensional dunes. Journal of Hydraulic Research 51 (5), pp.494-505. (10.1080/00221686.2013.835287)

2012

• Xie, Z. 2012. Numerical study of breaking waves by a two-phase flow model. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids 70 (2), pp.246-268. (10.1002/fld.2690)

2009

• Zhou, J. , Lin, J. and Xie, Z. 2009. A highly accurate compact explicit difference scheme for extended Boussinesq equations. Journal of Harbin Institute of Technology 41 , pp.215-218.

2008

• Lin, J. et al., 2008. A three-point explicit compact difference scheme with arbitrary order of accuracy for the two dimensional pollutant diffusion equation. Chinese Journal of Computational Mechanics 25 , pp.511-516.
• Xie, Z. , Lin, J. and Zhou, J. 2008. A new unconditionally stable explicit scheme for the convection-diffusion equation with Robin boundary conditions. International Journal of Computer Mathematics 85 (12), pp.1833-1847. (10.1080/00207160701581574)

2007

• Lin, J. , Xie, Z. and Zhou, J. 2007. Three-point explicit compact difference scheme with arbitrary order of accuracy and its application in CFD. Applied Mathematics and Mechanics 28 (7), pp.943-953. (10.1007/s10483-007-0711-x)
• Lin, J. , Xie, Z. and Zhou, J. 2007. High-order compact difference scheme for the regularized long wave equation. Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering 23 (2), pp.135-156. (10.1002/cnm.892)
• Lin, J. , Xie, Z. and Zhou, J. 2007. High-order compact scheme and its stability analysis for the pollutant diffusion equation. Chinese Journal of Computational Mechanics 26 , pp.790-794.
• Zhou, J. , Lin, J. and Xie, Z. 2007. A compact explicit difference scheme of high accuracy for extended Boussinesq equations. China Ocean Engineering 21 , pp.507-514.
• Zhou, J. , Lin, J. and Xie, Z. 2007. Numerical simulation for higher-order Boussinesq type equations and experimental verifications. The Ocean Engineering 25 , pp.88-92.

2006

• Lin, J. , Xie, Z. and Zhou, J. 2006. Application of a three-point explicit compact difference scheme to the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. Journal of Hydrodynamics, Ser. B 18 (3), pp.151-156. (10.1016/S1001-6058(06)60046-2)

2005

• Xie, Z. , Lin, J. and You, X. 2005. Comparative investigation of some high-order explicit schemes combined with QUICK for the convection-diffusion equation of pollutants. Journal of Hydrodynamics, Series A 20 , pp.346-356.