Welcome to Tingchang’s page

I am a fourth-year PhD student in Westlake University, China now, under the supervision of Prof. Sergio Torres. My research interests include: (i) modeling flow and particle transport in fracture networks; (ii) GPU-acceleration with high performance computating; (iii) application of the percolation theory; and so on. I am developing an open-source CUDA C++ code, cuDFNsys, which is able to do: (i) discrete fracture network (DFN) representations, (ii) steady-state flow simulations in DFNs (with a mixed hybrid finite element method), and (iii) particle tracking. The code aims at running Monte Carlo simulations with e.g. super computers, and has been released publicly.

Education

• Sep 2020 - present, PhD student in Environmental Science and Engineering, Westlake University, Zhejiang, China (a joint program with Zhejiang University, China)
• Sep 2017 - Dec 2019, MEng in Mining, Guangxi University, Guangxi, China
• Sep 2013 - Jun 2017, BEng in Mining, Guangxi University, Guangxi, China

Language

• Mandarin
• English

Research Interests

• Flow and transport in fractured porous media
• High performance simulation
• Statistics of geological fractures
• Percolation theory

Skills

• C/C++/CUDA
• Matlab
• Linux
• Python

Publications

First author publications

• T Yin, T Man, Ling Li, SA Galindo-Torres. Finite-Size Scaling for the Permeability of Discrete Fracture Networks (2023). Geophysical Research Letters, 50, e2022GL100837
• T Yin, T Man, SA Galindo-Torres. Universal scaling solution for the connectivity of discrete fracture networks (2022). Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 599, 127495
• T Yin, Q Chen. Simulation-based investigation on the accuracy of discrete fracture network (DFN) representation (2020). Computers and Geotechnics 121, 103487

Co-authored publications

• Gao X, Tian R, Yin T, Torres SAG, Lei L. Pore-scale freezing of a sandy saline soil visualized with micro-computed tomography. Permafrost and Periglac Process. 2024; 1-16. doi:10.1002/ppp.2215
• Jiang, Y., Yin, T., Guo, G., Gao, X., Torres, S. A. G., & Lei, L. (2024). Property evaluation by numerical modelling based on voxelized images–Accuracy versus resolution. Computers and Geotechnics, 165, 105887
• Q Chen, T Yin. Modification of the rock mass rating system (RMRmbi) considering three-dimensional rock block size (2020). Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment 79 (2), 789-810
• Q Chen, T Yin. Should the use of rock quality designation be discontinued in the rock mass rating system? (2019). Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering 52, 1075-1094
• Q Chen, T Yin. Integration of homogeneous structural region identification and rock mass quality classification (2019). Royal Society Open Science 6 (1), 181353
• Q Chen, T Yin, F Gao, Y Gao. Meticulous three-dimensional demarcation and separate presentation of statistically homogeneous structural domains within a large-scale jointed rock mass (2020). Geosciences Journal 24, 97-112

In-review manuscript

• T Yin, T Man, P Zhang, SA Galindo-Torres. Péclet-number-dependent longitudinal dispersion in discrete fracture networks. Submitted to WRR.

Honors and Awards

• National Scholarship for Master Students, at Guangxi University, China (2019)
• Freshmen scholarship, at Westlake University, China (2020)
• Suwu Scholarship, at Westlake University, China (2023)