Sheng Xu

Sheng Xu is Associate Professor at Southern Methodist University, specializing in computational fluid mechanics and aerodynamics. He holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University (2002) and previously worked at GE Energy on steam turbine aerodynamics, with postdoctoral research at Cornell and Princeton.

Research develops computational methods for biological flows, supersonic turbulence, flow control, and insect/swimmer hydrodynamics. The immersed interface method—a core focus—models solids using singular forces and solves fluid flows with jump conditions. Current applications include dragonfly wing kinematics and particle collision dynamics.

Publications in Journal of Computational Physics, SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, and Journal of Fluid Mechanics address turbulent boundary layers, particle collisions, and biological flight mechanics. Recent work advances interface methods for non-smooth boundaries and manufactured solutions for code validation.