Contact line problems have significant implications in various industrial applications. When two or more fluids or solids come into contact, surface effects can lead to complex morphological deformations. Additionally, fluid-solid interactions often necessitate multi-scale analysis. In the face of these challenges, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) plays a crucial role in both mathematical modeling and experimental analysis.  In this seminar, I will present several numerical strategies for addressing contact line problems. I will demonstrate the application of a straightforward explicit precondition-correction finite difference method using the free AMR software, Basilisk. Furthermore, I will introduce a more advanced model, the three-phase VOF, in which I propose a hybrid continuum surface tension force to account for surface effects.

I am a postdoctoral research associate working on computational fluid dynamics in Professor Taehun Lee’s group at the City College of New York. I obtained my Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the City College of New York, where I focused on multiphase flow modeling and simulation using the Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM).

I worked as an intern with researchers in Argonne National Laboratory, where I concentrated on large-scale simulation, distributed systems, and GPU acceleration. Following that, I spent a year as a postdoctoral research associate in Paris, collaborating with Professor Stephane Zaleski on Adaptive Mesh Refinement for multiphase flow.  I developed a C++ version of IMEXLBM and conducted scaling work on the Theta and Polaris clusters. Currently, I am developing continuous/discontinuous Galerkin lattice Boltzmann methods based on Nek5000 and NekRS. I am proficient in Python, Fortran, C, and C++, and have expertise in parallel programming libraries such as OpenMP, Kokkos (CUDA), DPC++, and MPI.

Education:

· Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, City College of New York (Aug 2018-Dec 2022)

· M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Binghamton University (Sep 2016-May 2018)

· B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Beihang University, China (Sep 2011-May 2015