Rundong Zhou

...and the beautiful engineers are all dead,
the secret technicians conspire for their own glamour
in the Future...
                                                                — Allen Ginsberg, Kral Majales (King of May)

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Currently located in:

Enschede, Netherlands

…a little about me
I am currenlty a Ph.D. student at the Physics of Fluids group in the University of Twente, Netherlands. I recieved my master degree in complex adaptive systems from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, and bachelor degree in Engineering Science, major in Engineering Physics from the University of Toronto in Canada.

I am primarily interested in fluid mechanics and turbulent convection, geophysical fluid dynamics, computational physics, numerical methods, and their applications in oceanography and atmospheric science. Here is my CV.

Out of academics, I am a wine and whisky enthusiast with the WSET 3 qualification. I also enjoy(ed) playing DOTA2, I used to play competitively for team UofT at the 2018-2019 season North America collegiate esports league and reached rank~900 in North America in 2019 and 2020.

publication(s)

Zhou, R., A. Lefauve, R. Verzicco, and D. Lohse. Transition to the ultimate regime of turbulent convection in stratified inclined duct flow. Preprint, 2025. (arXiv)
    Zhou, R. and N. Grisouard. Spectral solver for Cauchy problems in polar coordinates using discrete Hankel transforms. Preprint, 2023. (arXiv)

      education

      expected 2028 Ph.D. in Physics of Fluids
      University of Twente, Netherlands
      2024 Master of Science in Complex Adaptive Systems
      Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
      2023 Erasmus+ Exchange Program, Placement in the Physics of Fluids group
      University of Twente, Netherlands
      2021 Bachelor of Applied Science in Engineering Science, Major in Engineering Physics
      University of Toronto, Canada