Contact 
Tel: 010-62756151
E-mail： jjtao@pku.edu.cn 
Homepage ：http://www2.coe.pku.edu.cn/subpaget.asp?id=77

Education 
1999 Ph. D. Peking University 
1995 M. S. Tianjin University 
1992 B. S. Shandong University

Research Areas

Environmental and Geophysical Thermal Convections
Hydrodynamic Instabilities
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Dynamics of Rotating Fluids
Complex Fluids with Evolving Micro-structures
Laminar-turbulent Transition

Recent Publications

• Y. Bao, J. Tao (2014) Dynamic reactions of a free-pitching foil to the reverse Kármán vortices, Phys. Fluids (accepted) 
  Y.R. Zhao, J. Tao, O. Zikanov (2014) Transition to two-dimensionality in magnetohydrodynamic turbulent Taylor-Couette flow， Phys. Rev. E 89,033002 
  S.C. Zhao, J. Tao (2013) Instability of a rotating liquid ring, Phys. Rev. E 88, 033016. S.C. Zhao, J. Tao (2013) Destabilization of a liquid ring in the binormal direction,Phys. Fluids, 25, 091703. 
  Y. Bao, J. Tao (2013) Active control of a cylinder wake flow by using a streamwise oscillating foil, Phys. Fluids 25: 053601 
  J. Tao, Y. Bao (2013) Drag reduction of wake flow by shear-driven rotation, Phys. Rev. E 87, 023013 
  J. Tao, X.T. He, W.H. Ye, F.H. Busse （2013） Nonlinear Rayleigh-Taylor instability of rotating inviscid fluids, Phys. Rev. E , 87, 013001 
  J. Tao, S.Y. Chen & W.D. Su (2013) Local Reynolds number and thresholds of transition in shear flows. Sci China-Phys Mech Astron, 56（2）：263-269 
  Y. Bao, J. Tao (2013) Passive control of flow over a cylinder by dual plates, J. Fluid Struct. 37：201-219
  J. Tao, W. Tan (2010) Relaxation Oscillation of Thermal Convection in Rotating Cylindrical Annulus, Chin. Phys. Lett. 27(3), 034706 
  J. Tao (2009) Critical Instability and Friction Scaling of Fluid Flows through Pipes with Rough Inner Surfaces, Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 264502 
  J. Tao and F.H. Busse (2009) Oblique roll instability in inclined buoyancy layers,Euro. J. Mech. B/Fluids 28， 532-540 
  W. Pesch, D. Palaniappan, J. Tao and F.H. Busse (2008) Convection in heated fluid layers subjected to time-periodic horizontal accelerations, J. Fluid Mech. 596, 313-332 
  J. Tao (2006), Nonlinear global instability in buoyancy-driven boundary-layer flows, J. Fluid Mech. 566，377-388 
  J. Tao and F.H. Busse（2006） Thermal Convection in the Rotating Cylindrical Annulus and its Mean Zonal Flows, J. Fluid Mech. 552, 73 - 82. 
  J. Tao, P.Le Quere and S. Xin（2004） Spatio-temporal instability of the natural-convection boundary layer in thermally stratified medium, J. Fluid Mech. 518, 363