Don Liu

Don Liu
Associate Professor, Mathematics & Statistics and Mechanical Engineering
Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, United States

Biography

Don Liu is an Associate Professor in Louisiana Tech University. Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, Brown University, May 2004 Dissertation: “Spectral Element/Force Coupling Method: Application to Colloidal Micro-devices and Self-Assembled Structures in 3D Domains” Advisor: George E. Karniadakis, Martin R. Maxey M. Sc. in Applied Mathematics, Brown University, May 2000 Advisor: George E. Karniadakis Ph.D. in Computational Engineering Thermophysics, the Institute of Engineering Thermophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, July 1998 Dissertation: “Numerical Simulation of Heat Transfer inside a Gas Turbine Blade Trailing Edge and Structure Optimization” Advisor: Wei Zao Gu M. Sc. in Computational Thermophysics, Department of Thermal Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, July 1994 Thesis: “Mathematical Modeling of Heat Transfer in the Process of Continuous Casting Slabs during Transportation and Thermal Insulation” Advisor: Zhong Long Gao B. Sc. in Engineering Thermophysics, Southeast University, May 1991 Major: Thermal Energy Engineering Graduation Project: “Computer Aid Graphing and Teaching in Fluid Dynamics”

Research Interest

Computational Mathematics/Physics, numerical solutions to PDEs; visualization; heat and mass transfer, and energy conversion system; numerical solutions to incompressible and incompressible flows, particulate flows, micro/nano-flows in complex geometries, using spectral/hp element, discontinuous Galerkin finite element, finite volume, spectral, Fourier, finite difference, compact difference, and mesh-free methods High performance parallel and GPU computing in big-data simulation using MPI & OpenMP, CUDA C/C++, C/C++, Fortran, and Matlab Applications of scientific and parallel computing to thermal, mechanical, chemical, coastal, civil, biomedical engineering, geophysics, and microelectromechanical systems in multiscales