Don
Liu
Education:
·
Ph.D. from Applied
Mathematics Division, Brown University, May 2004
Dissertation: “Spectral Element / Force Coupling Method:
Application to
Colloidal Micro-devices and
Self-Assembly Structures in 3D Complex
Geometry Domains”
Advisor: George Em Karniadakis
·
M. Sc. from Applied
Mathematics Division, Brown University, May 200
- Ph.D. from Institute
of Engineering Thermo-physics, Chinese Academy of
Sciences,
July 1998, Beijing, China
Dissertation:
“Numerical Simulation of Heat Transfer inside a Gas Turbine Blade
Trailing Edge and
Structure Optimization”
Advisor: Wei Zao Gu
- M. Sc. From Department
of Thermal Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, July
1994, Beijing, China
- B. Sc. From Department
of Engineering Thermo-physics, Southeast University, May 1991.
Research
Interests:
- Developing and designing efficient algorithms, numerical methods
and solutions for linear/non-linear partial differential equations in
C/C++/Fortran.
- Scientific and parallel computation, visualization and analysis,
with emphases on heat and mass transfer, direct numerical simulation of
incompressible fluid flows, particle-fluid two-phase flows, and
micro-scale flows in complex geometry domains, geodynamo simulation, by
Spectral/hp Element, Finite Element and Finite Difference Methods.
- Geodynamo data assimilation
- Scientific and parallel computing applications in mechanical,
biomedical, microelectromechanical, and
other interdisciplinary systems.