Tsorng-Whay Pan
Professor of Mathematics
Department of Mathematics
University of Houston
Houston, TX 77204-3008

Office : 683 PGH
Office hours: MWF 1 pm - 2 pm or by appointment
Phone: (713) 743-3448; Fax: (713) 743-3505; e-mail : pan@math.uh.edu


The Courses I teach (Fall, 2008)
  1. Math2433: Calculus III (Class number 24178), MWF 12 pm - 1 pm at 102 SEC
  2. Math6370: Numerical Analysis (Class number 24384), MW 4 pm - 5:30 pm at 350 PGH


Research Interests:
  1. Fictitious domain methods and its applications
  2. Numerical simulations of particulate flows: suspensions, sedimentation, liquid-solid fluidized bed,
    slurry transportation, and etc. in Newtonian and non-Newtonain fluids
  3. Computational fluid dynamics: Incompressible viscous Newtonian fluid flows, Viscoelastic fluid flows
  4. Scientific computing
  5. Numerical analysis

Selected Publications

Animations of Particulate Flow :

  1. Sedimentation: balls, ellipsoids, truncated cylinders settling in an incompressible viscous Newtonian fluid
  2. Pattern formation of non-Brownian settling balls in a rotating fluid-filled horizontal cylinder
  3. Fluidization: 1024 ball fluidized bed, fluidization of 60 truncated cylinders
  4. Lift-off particles in 3D Poiseuille flows.


Conferences and Seminars:

  1. Scientific Computing seminar (ITES): Thursdays, 3:00 PM, Room 634 S&R1.
  2. July 9 - 12, 2008: International Conference on Modeling and Simulation, Xi'an Jiaotong University,Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.
  3. March 9 and 10, 2007: France - USA Conference on Applied and Numerical PDEs at 232 PGH, University of Houston.
  4. March 2 and 3, 2007: 2007 Texas Finite Element Rodeo at 232 PGH, University of Houston.

Date of last change: August, 2008