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  • T. Patel, C. Li, F. Faissi, G.S. Kassab, T. Gao, L.C. Lee, "Coupled thermal-hemodynamics computational modeling of cryoballoon ablation for pulmonary vein isolation", Comput. Biol. Med. (2023). (Doi)

  • Y. Zhu, J. Peng, T. Gao, F. Tian, "Learning to school in dense configurations with multi-agent deep reinforcement learning", Bioinsp. Biomim. 18 (2023), 015003. (Doi)

  • X. Qi, T. Gao, X. Tan, "Bio-inspired 3D-printed soft snakeskins enable effective serpentine locomotion of a soft robotic snake", Soft Robotics (2023), (Doi)

  • Z. Lin, Z. Yu, J. Li, T. Gao, "Anisotropic swimming and reorientation of an undulatory microswimmer in liquid-crystalline polymers", J. Fluid Mech. 946 (2022), A30. (Doi)

  • B. Palmer, W. Yan, T. Gao, "Hydrodynamic instabilities of activity-balanced binary suspensions", Phys. Rev. Fluids 7 (2022), 063101. (Doi)

  • B. Palmer, S. Chen, P. Govan, W. Yan, T. Gao, "Understanding topological defects in fluidized dry active nematics", Soft Matter 18 (2022), 1013-1018. (Doi)

  • Z. Lin, S. Chen, T. Gao, "Q-tensor model for undulatory swimming in lyotropic liquid-crystalline polymers", J. Fluid Mech. 921 (2021), A25. (Doi)

  • M. CastaƱo, A. Hess, G. Mamakoukas, T. Gao, T. Murphey, X. Tan, "Control-oriented modeling of soft robotic swimmer with Koopman operators", IEEE/ASME AIM (2020), 1679-1685. (Doi)

  • S. Chen, W. Yan, T. Gao, "Scaling law of Brownian rotation in dense hard-rod suspensions", Phys. Rev. E 102 (2020), 012608. (Doi)

  • S. Hughey, A. Alsnayyana, H.M. Aktulga, T. Gao, B. Shanker, "Fast and scalable evaluation of pairwise potentials", Comput. Phys. Commun. 225 (2020), 107248. (Doi)

  • A. Hess, X. Tan, T. Gao, "CFD-based multi-objective controller optimization for soft robotic fish with muscle-like actuation", Bioinsp. Biomim. 15 (2020), 035004. (Doi)

  • Z. Lin, T. Gao, "Direct-forcing fictitious domain method for simulating non-Brownian active particles", Phys. Rev. E 100 (2019), 013304. (Doi)

  • Z. Lin, A. Hess, Z. Yu, S. Cai, T. Gao, "A fluid-structure interaction study of soft robotic swimmer using a fictitious domain/active-strain method", J. Comput. Phys. 376 (2019), 1138-1155. (Doi)

  • H. Tian, Z. Wang, Y. Chen, J. Shao, T. Gao, S. Cai, "Polydopamine coated main-chain liquid crystal elastomer as optically-driven artificial muscle", ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 10 (2018), 8307-8316. (Doi)

  • S. Chen, P. Gao, T. Gao, "Dynamics and structure of an apolar active suspension in annulus", J. Fluid Mech. 835 (2018), 393-405. (Doi)

  • A. Hess, S. Cai, T. Gao, "Stability of Newtonian Couette flow past a gel film" (invited), Theor. Appl. Mech. Lett. 7 (2017), 286-291. (Doi)

  • T. Gao, Z. Li, "Self-driven droplet powered by active nematics", Phys. Rev. Lett. 119 (2017), 108002. (Featured as the cover article) (Doi)

  • T. Gao, M. D. Betterton, A. Jhang, M. J. Shelley, "Analytical structure, dynamics, and coarse graining of a kinetic model of an active fluid", Phys. Rev. Fluids 2 (2017), 093302. (Doi)

  • T. Gao, R. Blackwell, M. A. Glaser, M. D. Betterton, M. J. Shelley, "Multiscale modeling and simulation of microtubule/motor-protein suspensions", Phys. Rev. E 92 (2015), 062709. (Doi)

  • T. Gao, R. Blackwell, M. A. Glaser, M. D. Betterton, M. J. Shelley, "Multiscale polar theory of microtubule and motor-protein assemblies", Phys. Rev. Lett. 114 (2015), 048101. (Doi)

  • T. Gao, H. H. Hu, P. Ponte Castañeda, "Dynamics and rheology of elastic particles in an extensional flow", J. Fluid Mech. 715 (2013), 573-596. (Doi)

  • T. Gao, H. H. Hu, P. Ponte Castañeda, "Shape dynamics and rheology of soft elastic particles in a shear flow", Phys. Rev. Lett. 108 (2012), 058302. (Doi)

  • T. Gao, H. H. Hu, P. Ponte Castañeda, "Rheology of a suspension of elastic particles in a viscous shear flow", J. Fluid Mech. 687 (2011), 209-237. (Doi)

  • T. N. Swaminathan, T. Gao, H. H. Hu, "Deformation of a long elastic particle undergoing electrophoresis", J. Colloid Interface Sci.346 (2010), 270-276. (Doi)

  • T. Gao, H. H. Hu, "Deformation of elastic particles in viscous shear flow", J. Comput. Phys. 228 (2009), 2132-2151. (Doi)

  • T. Gao, X. Lu, "Insect normal hovering flight in ground effect", Phys. Fluids 20 (2008), 087101. (Doi)

  • T. Gao, N. Liu, X. Lu, "Numerical analysis of the ground effect on insect hovering", J. Hydrodyn., Ser. B 20 (2008), 17-22.(Doi)

  • T. Gao, Y. Tseng, X. Lu, "An improved hybrid Cartesian/immersed boundary method for fluid-solid flows", Int. J. Num. Methods Fluids 55 (2007), 1189-1211. (Doi)