Yuzhu Pearl Li

Dr. Li Yuzhu, Pearl is Assistant Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at NUS and is a former Marie Skłodowska-Curie Scholar. Her research focuses on many aspects of coastal engineering, including: fluid-structure-seabed interaction, scour, liquefaction, turbulence modelling and breaking waves, with particular focus on computational fluid dynamics modelling and numerical investigation of coastal engineering problems. She currently serves as an Editorial Advisory Board member of the OpenFOAM® Journal and is a regular topic organizer at the annual OMAE (International Conference on Ocean, Offshore & Arctic Engineering) conference.

Research Interests

• Computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
• Fluid-structure-seabed interaction
• Turbulence modelling
• Breaking waves
• Sediment transport
• Scour
• Liquefaction

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) University of Stavanger (UiS) (2016 — 2019)
• Master of Engineering (MEng) Memorial University of Newfoundland (2013 — 2016)
• Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Wuhan University of Technology (2009 — 2013)
• Minor Degree of B.A. Huazhong University of Science and Technology (2010 — 2013)

Companies

• Assistant Professor National University of Singapore (2021)
• MSCA Postdoc fellow DTU - Technical University of Denmark (2019 — 2021)
• President of Chinese Student Union in Stavanger Chinese Student Union in Stavanger (CSU-UiS) (2018 — 2019)
• PhD Research Fellow University of Stavanger (2016 — 2019)
• Visiting Researcher DTU - Technical University of Denmark (2018 — 2018)
• NUMAP-FOAM Summer School University of Zagreb/Sveuciliste u Zagrebu (2017 — 2017)
• Team Leader Memorial University of Newfoundland (2015 — 2016)
• Research Assistant Memorial University of Newfoundland (2013 — 2016)
• Internship American Bureau of Shipping (2015 — 2015)

Grants,Honours & Awards

• Principal Investigator, European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions grant (COFUNDfellowsDTU), 2019, Denmark
• Distinction of Fellow of the School of Graduate Studies, Memorial University, 2016, Canada
• Full Scholarship for Research-Based M.Eng from Graduate School at Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2013, Canada
• Award of Best Bachelor’s Thesis of Hubei Province, 2013, China

Publications

• Li, Y., & Fuhrman, D. R. (2021).Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulation of Deep-Water Wave Instabilities Involving Wave Breaking. Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, 144(2), 021901.
• Fuhrman, D. R. & Li, Y. (2020). Instability of the realizable k–ε turbulence model beneath surface waves. Physics of Fluids, 32(11), p.115108.
• Li, Y., Ong, M. C., & Fuhrman, D. R. (2020). CFD investigations of scour beneath a submarine pipeline with the effect of upward seepage. Coastal Engineering, 156, 103624.
• Li, Y., Ong, M. C., Fuhrman, D. R., & Larsen, B. E. (2020). Numerical investigation of wave-plus-current induced scour beneath two submarine pipelines in tandem. Coastal Engineering, 156, 103619.
• Li, Y., Ong, M. C., & Tang, T. (2020). A numerical toolbox for wave-induced seabed response analysis around marine structures in the OpenFOAM® Ocean Engineering, 195, 106678.
• Celli, D., Li, Y., Ong, M. C., & Di Risio, M. (2020). Random wave-induced momentary liquefaction around rubble mound breakwaters with submerged berms. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 8(5), 338.
• Celli D., Li Y., Ong M. C., & Risio M.D. (2019). The role of submerged berms on the momentary liquefaction around conventional rubble mound breakwaters. Applied Ocean Research, 0141-1187.
• Li, Y., Ong, M. C., Gudmestad, O. T., & Hjertager, B. H. (2019). The effects of slab geometries and wave directions on the steep wave-induced soil response and liquefaction around gravity-based offshore foundations. Ships and Offshore Structures, 1-12.
• Pavlou, D. G., & Li, Y. (2018). Seabed dynamic response of offshore wind turbine foundation under vertical harmonic loading: an analytic solution. Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2018, 6250158.
• Li Y., Ong M. C., & Tang T. (2018). Numerical analysis of wave-induced poro-elastic seabed response around a hexagonal gravity-based offshore foundation. Coastal Engineering, 136, 81-95.