Name: Yifan Yu

Title: Research Fellow

Research Interests: Multiscale analysis methods and their applications in engineering.

Education:

2014–2020 Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, Ph.D. in Computational Mathematics, Supervisor: Academician Junzhi Cui.

2010–2014 School of Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, B.S. in Information and Computing Science.

Professional Experience:

2025–Present School of Mathematics and Computer Sciences, Nanchang University, Nanchang, Research Fellow.

2023–2025 School of Aerospace Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, Postdoctoral Researcher/Assistant Researcher, Collaborating Supervisor: Associate Professor Yan Liu.

2020–2023 Information Research Center of Military Science, Academy of Military Sciences, Beijing, Assistant Researcher.

Major Achievements:

[1] Yifan Yu*, Quanzhang Li (2025). Molecular dynamics study on crack propagation of Fe and Fe-Ni: Temperature, crystallographic orientation and elemental segregation. Materials & Design,115104.

[2] Yifan Yu*, Yipeng Rao (2024). Molecular dynamics simulation of crack growth in nanocrystalline nickel considering the effect of accumulated plastic deformation. Materials Today Communications. 40. 110011.

[3] Yifan Yu*, Junzhi Cui. (2023). Quantification of the atomic surfaces and volumes of a metal cluster based on the molecular surface model. Physica Scripta. 98. 45704.

[4] Yifan Yu*, Junzhi Cui. (2021). Elastic–plastic deformation decomposition algorithm for metal clusters at the atomic scale. Computational Mechanics. 67(2), 567-581.

[5] Junzhi Cui*, Yifan Yu. (2020). Elastic–plastic decomposition method of metallic structure based on molecular dynamics simulation. Mathematica Numerica Sinica. 42(3), 279-297.

[6] Jieqiong Zhang*, Junzhi Cui, Zihao Yang, Yifan Yu (2019). Heat capacity and thermal expansion of metal crystalline materials based on dynamic thermal vibration. Computational Mechanics. 63(5), 971-984.

[7] Yantao Yang, Junzhi Cui*, Yifan Yu, Meizhen Xiang (2018). Macroscopic damping model for structural dynamics with random polycrystalline configurations. Acta Mechanica Sinica, 34(3), 493-506.

[8] Yifan Yu. (2023). Software for calculating the volume of crystalline materials at the microscale. Software copyright. National Copyright Administration. Registration number: 2023SR1152233.

[9] Fei Xue, Xiaosong Li, Fei Li, Chenglu Zhang, Baoqi Liu, Yifan Yu. (2022). An image classification method based on a multi-block feature filtering network. Invention patent. China National Intellectual Property Administration. Application number: CN202210884364.5.

[10] Fei Xue, Chenglu Zhang, Baoqi Liu, Congyin Li, Huan Xi, Yifan Yu, et al. (2022). Semantic relevance–based text classification method. Invention patent. China National Intellectual Property Administration. Application number: CN202110665361.8.

Email: yuyifan@ncu.edu.cn;  yuyifan@lsec.cc.ac.