DU, Jian

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Contact Information

Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematical Sciences
College of Science
Crawford Tower, 314
Phone: 7157
Email: jdu@fit.edu

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Keywords

mathematical biology

scientific computing

numerical analysis

Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematical Sciences, College of Science

Educational Background

Ph.D. Stony Brook University, New York
M.S. Stony Brook University, New York
B.S. Wuhan University, P.R. China

Recognition & Awards

Sigma Xi Award for Excellence in Research

Current Courses

MTH 4311 Numerical Analysis

Current Research

  1. Mathematical biology, modeling and numerical algorithms for biological fluid, multiphase flow and fluid-structure interactions. Development of models and computational methods to explore problems in biology that involve complex fluids such as platelet aggregation and biological locomotion. 
  2. Numerical analysis and scienti c computing. Front tracking method for system of conservation laws and magnetohydrodynamics.

Selected Publications

[1] Low Reynolds-Number Swimming in Two-phase Fluids. Jian Du, James Keener, Robert Guy, Aaron Fogelson, Physical Review E 85, 036304 (2012).

[2] A Parallel Computational Method for Simulating Two-phase Gel Dynamics on a Staggered Grid. Jian Du, Aaron Fogelson, Grady Wright, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, 60 (2009), pp. 633-649.

[3] A Numerical Algorithm for MHD in Ablated Material. Tianshi Lu, Jian Du, Roman Samulyak, Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 8 (2008), pp. 3674-3685.

[4] A Numerical Algorithm for MHD of Free Surface Flows at Low Magnetic Reynolds Numbers. Roman Samulyak, Jian Du, James Glimm, Zhiliang Xu, Journal of Computational Physics 226 (2007), pp. 1532-1549.

[5] A Simple Package for Front Tracking. Jian Du, Brian Fix, James Glimm, Xiaolin Li, et al., Journal of Computational Physics 213 (2006), pp. 613-628.