Dai Yu was born in Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, in December 1977. He received his doctorate in science from the Department of Astronomy at Nanjing University in 2005. From 2007 to 2009, he was engaged in post-doctoral research at the Institute of Astrophysics in Paris (IAP). He now serves as an associate professor in astrophysics at the School of Astronomy and Space Science, Nanjing University.

Fluid Mechanics (undergraduate subject optional course)

Magnetohydrodynamics (graduate-level core course)

Professor Dai Yu’s research focuses on the hydrodynmic/magnetohydrodynamic process in solar activities, including hydrostatic modeling of solar equilibrium coronal loops, thermal evolution of solar flare loops, and propagtion of large-scale solar coronal waves. 

Publications

Li, S., Dai, Y., DIng, M., et al.: Enhanced Peak and Extended Cooling of the Extreme-ultraviolet Late Phase in a Confined Solar Flare, 2024, ApJ, 977, 257

Dai, Y., Xiang, J. J., & Ding, M. D.: Generalized Coronal Loop Scaling Laws and Their Implication for Turbulentce in Solar Active Region Loops,  2024, ApJ, 965, 2

Chen, Y., Dai. Y., & Ding, M.: An Atypical Plateau-like Extreme-ultraviolet Late-phase Solar Flare Driven by the Nonradial Eruption of a Magnetic Flux Rope, 2023, A&A, 675, A147

Wu, H., Dai, Y., & Ding, M. D.: Highly Energetic Electrons Accelerated in Strong Solar Flares as a Perferred Driver of Sunquakes, 2023, ApJL, 943, L6

Zhong, Y., Dai, Y., & Ding, M. D.: Extreme-ultraviolet Late Phase in Homologous Solar Flares from a Complex Active Region, 2021, ApJ, 916, 37

Dai, Y., Ding, M., Zong, W., & Yang, K. E.: Extremely Large Extreme-ultraviolet Late Phase Powered by Intense Early Heating in a Non-eruptive Solar Flare, 2018, ApJ, 863, 124

Dai, Y., & Ding, M.: Probing the Production of Extreme-ultraviolet Late-phase Solar Flares Using the Model Enthalpy-based Thermal Evolution of Loops, 2018, ApJ, 857, 99