Publications

Complete bibliography as a single BIBTEX file

Theses

• MS Dissertation, Yawing effects in wind power plants: stochastic wake modeling and control
  M. Rodrigues
  University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, 2023
  

• MS Dissertation, Data-enhanced stochastic dynamical modeling for wind farms
  A. H. Bhatt
  University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, 2022
  

• MS Dissertation, Modeling and analysis of stochastic base flow uncertainties in wall-bounded shear flows
  D. B. Hewawaduge
  University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, 2022
  

• Ph.D. Dissertation, Low-complexity stochastic modeling of wall-bounded shear flows
  A. Zare
  University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 2016
  Advisor: M. R. Jovanovic

• B.Sc. Thesis, Discretization effects on the efficiency of fractional order PID controllers
  A. Zare
  Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, 2010
  Advisor: M. Haeri

Journal papers

• Stochastic dynamical modeling of wind farm turbulence
  A. H. Bhatt, M. Rodrigues, F. Bernardoni, S. Leonardi, and A. Zare
  Energies, vol. 16, no. 19, p. 6908 (24 pages), Februrary 2023.

• Model-based spectral coherence analysis
  A. Abootorabi and A. Zare
  J. Fluid Mech., 958:A16 (32 pages), March 2023.

• Input-output analysis of stochastic base flow uncertainty
  D. B. Hewawaduge and A. Zare
  Phys. Rev. Fluids, vol. 7, no. 7, p. 073901 (32 pages), July 2022.

• Convergence and sample complexity of gradient methods for the model-free linear quadratic regulator problem
  H. Mohammadi, A. Zare, M. Soltanolkotabi, and M. R. Jovanovic
  IEEE Trans. Automat. Control, vol. 67, no. 5, pp. 2435-2450, May 2022.

• Model-based design of riblets for turbulent drag reduction
  W. Ran, A. Zare, and M. R. Jovanovic
  J. Fluid Mech., 906:A7 (38 pages), January 2021.

• Proximal algorithms for large-scale statistical modeling and sensor/actuator selection
  A. Zare, H. Mohammadi, N. K. Dhingra, T. T. Georgiou, and M. R. Jovanovic
  IEEE Trans. Automat. Control, 65(8):3441-3456, August 2020.

• Stochastic dynamical modeling of turbulent flows
  A. Zare, T. T. Georgiou, and M. R. Jovanovic
  Annu. Rev. Control Robot. Auton. Syst., 3:195-219, May 2020.

• Stochastic receptivity analysis of boundary layer flow
  W. Ran, A. Zare, M. J. P. Hack, and M. R. Jovanovic
  Phys. Rev. Fluids, 4(9):093901 (28 pages), September 2019.

• Modeling mode interactions in boundary layer flows via Parabolized Floquet Equations
  W. Ran, A. Zare, M. J. P. Hack, and M. R. Jovanovic
  Phys. Rev. Fluids, 4(2):023901 (22 pages), February 2019.

• Colour of turbulence
  A. Zare, M. R. Jovanovic and T. T. Georgiou
  J. Fluid Mech., 812:636-680, February 2017.

• Low-complexity modeling of partially available second-order statistics: theory and an efficient matrix completion algorithm
  A. Zare, Y. Chen, M. R. Jovanovic and T. T. Georgiou
  IEEE Trans. Automat. Control, 62(3):1368-1383, March 2017.

Refereed proceedings

• Robustness of two-dimensional stochastic dynamical wake models for yawed wind turbines
  M. Rodrigues, N. A. Burgess, A. H. Bhatt, S. Leonardi, and A. Zare
  In Proceedings of the 2024 American Control Conference, Toronto, Canada, 2024. Note: To appear.

• Robustness of two-dimensional stochastic dynamical wake models for yawed wind turbines
  M. Rodrigues, N. A. Burgess, A. H. Bhatt, S. Leonardi, and A. Zare
  In Proceedings of the 2023 American Control Conference, San Diego, CA, pp. 818-823, 2023.

• Stochastic dynamical wake modeling using partially available field measurements
  A. H. Bhatt, F. Bernardoni, S. Leonardi, and A. Zare
  2022 NAWEA/WindTech Conference, University of Delaware, DE, 2022.

• Toward stochastic dynamical wake-modeling for wind farms
  A. H. Bhatt and A. Zare
  In Proceedings of the 2022 American Control Conference, Atlanta, GA, pp. 5241-5246, 2022.

• The effect of base flow uncertainty on transitional channel flows
  D. B. Hewawaduge and A. Zare
  In Proceedings of the 2022 American Control Conference, Atlanta, GA, pp. 5050-5055, 2022.

• Data-enhanced Kalman filtering of colored process noise
  A. Zare
  In Proceedings of the 60th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Austin, TX, pp. 6603-6607, 2021.

• Robustness of turbulence suppression in channel flows with imperfect transverse wall oscillations
  D. B. Hewawaduge, T. H. Summers, and A. Zare
  In Proceedings of the 2021 American Control Conference, New Orleans, LA, pp. 292-297, 2021.

• Frequency-response analysis of riblets for turbulent drag reduction
  W. Ran, A. Zare, and M. R. Jovanovic
  In Proceedings of the 24th International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Network and Systems, Cambridge, UK, 2020.

• Boundary layer receptivity analysis via the algebraic Lyapunov equation
  W. Ran, A. Zare, M. J. P. Hack, and M. R. Jovanovic
  In Proceedings of the 2020 AIAA SciTech Forum, Orlando, FL, pp. 0109 (15 pages), 2020.

• Global exponential convergence of gradient methods over the nonconvex landscape of the linear quadratic regulator
  H. Mohammadi, A. Zare, M. Soltanolkotabi, and M. R. Jovanovic
  In Proceedings of the 58th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Nice, France, pp. 7474-7479, 2019.

• Drag reduction in turbulent channel flow over spatially periodic surfaces
  W. Ran, A. Zare, and M. R. Jovanovic
  In Proceedings of the 58th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Nice, France, pp. 5918-5923, 2019.

• Relating global and local stochastic receptivity analysis of boundary layer flows
  W. Ran, A. Zare, M. J. P. Hack, and M. R. Jovanovic
  In Proceedings of the 2019 American Control Conference, Philadelphia, PA, pp. 3212-3217, 2019.

• Optimal sensor selection via proximal optimization algorithms
  A. Zare and M. R. Jovanovic
  In Proceedings of the 57th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Miami, FL, pp. 6514-6519, 2018.

• Low-complexity modeling of mode interactions in boundary layer flows
  W. Ran, A. Zare, M. J. P. Hack, and M. R. Jovanovic
  In Proceedings of the 2018 American Control Conference, Milwaukee, WI, pages 134-139, 2018.

• Estimation of State and Noise Covariances in Power Grids using limited nodal PMUs
  D. Deka, A. Zare, A. Lokhov, M. R. Jovanovic, and M. Chertkov
  In Proceedings of the 5th IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing, GlobalSIP 2017, Montreal, Canada.

• Structured covariance completion via proximal algorithms
  A. Zare, N. K. Dhingra, M. R. Jovanovic, and T. T. Georgiou
  In Proceedings of the 56th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Melbourne, Australia, pages 3775-3780, 2017.

• The effect of sponge layers on global stability analysis of Blasius boundary layer flow
  W. Ran, A. Zare, J. W. Nichols, and M. R. Jovanovic
  In Proceedings of the 47th AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference, Denver, CO, 2017.

• Low-complexity stochastic modeling of spatially evolving flows
  W. Ran, A. Zare, M. J. P. Hack, and M. R. Jovanovic
  In Proceedings of the 2017 American Control Conference, Seattle, WA, pages 3815-3820, 2017.

• Low-complexity stochastic modeling of spatially evolving flows
  W. Ran, A. Zare, M. J. P. Hack, and M. R. Jovanovic
  In Proceedings of the 2016 Summer Program, Center for Turbulence Research, Stanford University/NASA, pages 285-294, 2016.

• Perturbation of System Dynamics and the Covariance Completion Problem
  A. Zare, M. R. Jovanovic, and T. T. Georgiou
  In Proceedings of the 55th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Las Vegas, NV, pages 7037-7041, 2016.

• The use of the \(r\ast\) heuristic in covariance completion problems
  C. Grussler, A. Zare, M. R. Jovanovic, and A. Rantzer
  In Proceedings of the 55th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Las Vegas, NV, pages 1978-1983, 2016.

• An alternating minimization algorithm for structured covariance completion problems
  A. Zare, Y. Chen, M. R. Jovanovic, and T. T. Georgiou
  In Proceedings of the 22nd International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Network and Systems, Minneapolis, MN, 2016.

• Alternating direction optimization algorithms for covariance completion problems
  A. Zare, M. R. Jovanovic, and T. T. Georgiou
  In Proceedings of the 2015 American Control Conference, Chicago, IL, pages 515-520, 2015.

• Completion of partially known turbulent flow statistics
  A. Zare, M. R. Jovanovic, and T. T. Georgiou
  In Proceedings of the 2014 American Control Conference, Portland, OR, pages 1680-1685, 2014. Note: (Invited paper; Finalist, Best Student Paper Award).

• Completion of partially known turbulent flow statistics via convex optimization
  A. Zare, M. R. Jovanovic, and T. T. Georgiou
  In Proceedings of the 2014 Summer Program, Center for Turbulence Research, Stanford University/NASA, pages 345-354, 2014.

• Turbulent drag reduction by streamwise traveling waves
  A. Zare, B. K. Lieu, and M. R. Jovanovic
  In Proceedings of the 51st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Maui, HI, pages 3122-3126, 2012.

Abstracts

• Model-based spectral coherence analysis enhanced by scale-dependent eddy dissipation and anisotropic forcing terms
  A. Abootorabi and A. Zare
  in Bulletin of the American Physical Society, Washington, DC, November 2023.

• Effect of stochastic base flow uncertainty in transitional high speed compressible flows
  A. Dwivedi, A. Zare, and M. R. Jovanovic
  in Bulletin of the American Physical Society, Washington, DC, November 2023.

• Short-term wind forecasting via surface pressure measurements: stochastic modeling and optimal sensor placement
  A. Abootorabi, S. Leonardi, M. Rotea, and A. Zare
  in Bulletin of the American Physical Society, Washington, DC, November 2023.

• Analysis of complex wind farm flow over realistic terrain using sparsity-promoting dynamic mode decomposition
  J. W. Rogers, M. Guzman Hernandez, S. Leonardi, and A. Zare
  in Bulletin of the American Physical Society, Washington, DC, November 2023.

• Data-enhanced stochastic dynamical modeling of yawed wind turbine wakes
  M. Rodrigues, M. V. Lingad, S. Leonardi, and A. Zare
  Wind Energy Science Conference, Glasgow, UK, May 2023.

• Stochastic dynamical modeling of wind farm turbulence
  M. Rodrigues, A. H. Bhatt, F. Bernardoni, S. Leonardi, and A. Zare
  in Bulletin of the American Physical Society, Indianapolis, IN, November 2022.

• Model-based spectral coherence analysis for high-Reynolds number turbulent shear flows
  S. Abootorabi and A. Zare
  in Bulletin of the American Physical Society, Indianapolis, IN, November 2022.

• Input-output analysis of turbulent channel flow subject to the imperfect transverse wall oscillations
  A. Zare and S. Abootorabi
  in Bulletin of the American Physical Society, Indianapolis, IN, November 2022.

• Spectral coherence analysis of turbulent flows using stochastically forced linearized Navier-Stokes
  A. Zare and S. Abootorabi
  in Bulletin of the American Physical Society, Phoenix, AZ, November 2021.

• On the parametric refinement of data-enhanced linearized Navier-Stokes for modeling near-wall turbulences
  S. Abootorabi and A. Zare
  in Bulletin of the American Physical Society, Phoenix, AZ, November 2021.

• Input-output analysis of stochastic base flow uncertainty in channel flows
  D. B. Hewawaduge and A. Zare
  in Bulletin of the American Physical Society, Phoenix, AZ, November 2021.

• Model-based design of riblets for turbulent drag reduction
  W. Ran, A. Zare, and M. R. Jovanovic
  8th International Congress of the Serbian Society of Mechanics, Kragujevac, Serbia, June 2021.

• Spectral Coherence Analysis using Data-Enhanced Physics-Based Models
  A. Zare
  SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, Fort Worth, TX, March 2021.

• An input-output approach to the robustness analysis of transverse wall oscillations in channel flows
  A. Zare, and D. B. Hewawaduge
  in Bulletin of the American Physical Society, Chicago, IL, November 2020.

• Toward stochastically forced turbulence closure models
  A. Zare, A. Dwivedi, and M. R. Jovanovic
  in Bulletin of the American Physical Society, Seattle, WA, November 2019.

• Model-based analysis of turbulent drag reduction in channel flow over corrugated surfaces
  W. Ran, A. Zare, and M. R. Jovanovic
  in Bulletin of the American Physical Society, Seattle, WA, November 2019.

• Data-driven refinements of physics-based models with application to turbulence modeling
  A. Zare, M. R. Jovanovic, and T. T. Georgiou
  SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems, Snowbird, UT, May 2019.

• Data-informed dynamic acoustic source modeling in high-speed jets
  A. Zare, J. Jeun, J. W. Nichols, and M. R. Jovanovic
  in Bulletin of the American Physical Society, Atlanta, GA, November 2018.

• Receptivity analysis of boundary layer flows subject to stochastic excitation
  W. Ran, A. Zare, M. J. P. Hack, and M. R. Jovanovic
  in Bulletin of the American Physical Society, Atlanta, GA, November 2018.

• Receptivity analysis of flows over structured corrugated surfaces
  M. R. Jovanovic, W. Ran, and A. Zare
  in Bulletin of the American Physical Society, Atlanta, GA, November 2018.

• Color of turbulence: Low-complexity stochastic dynamical modeling of turbulent flows
  A. Zare, M. R. Jovanovic, and T. T. Georgiou
  48th AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference, Atlanta, GA, June 2018.

• Coherent structures in high Reynolds number turbulent shear flow
  A. Zare, J. W. Nichols, and M. R. Jovanovic
  in Bulletin of the American Physical Society, Denver, CO, November 2017.

• Stochastic modeling of mode interactions via linear parabolized stability equations
  W. Ran, A. Zare, M. J. P. Hack, and M. R. Jovanovic
  in Bulletin of the American Physical Society, Denver, CO, November 2017.

• Low-complexity stochastic modeling of spatially evolving flows
  A. Zare, W. Ran, M. J. P. Hack, and M. R. Jovanovic
  in Bulletin of the American Physical Society, Portland, OR, November 2016.

• Stochastic dynamical modeling: Structured matrix completion of partially available statistics
  A. Zare, Y. Chen, M. R. Jovanovic, and T. T. Georgiou
  in 2016 Information Theory and Applications Workshop, San Diego, CA, February 2016.

• Spatio-temporal frequency responses of turbulent shear flows
  A. Zare, M. R. Jovanovic, and T. T. Georgiou
  in Bulletin of the American Physical Society, Boston, MA, November 2015.

• Low-complexity stochastic modeling of turbulent flows
  A. Zare, M. R. Jovanovic, and T. T. Georgiou
  in SIAM Conference on Control and Its Applications, Paris, France, July 2015.

• Low-complexity modeling of partially available second-order statistics via matrix completion
  A. Zare, Y. Chen, M. R. Jovanovic, and T. T. Georgiou
  in SIAM Conference on Control and Its Applications, Paris, France, July 2015.

• Completion of partially known second-order statistics of turbulent flows
  A. Zare, M. R. Jovanovic, and T. T. Georgiou
  in Bulletin of the American Physical Society, San Francisco, CA, November 2014.

• Model-based design of drag-reducing spanwise wall oscillations
  M. R. Jovanovic and A. Zare
  in Bulletin of the American Physical Society, San Francisco, CA, November 2014.

• Model-based analysis of the effect of spanwise wall oscillations on drag reduction at high Reynolds numbers
  A. Zare, R. Moarref, and M. R. Jovanovic
  in Bulletin of the American Physical Society, Pittsburgh, PA, November 2013.