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)
- Math2433: Calculus III (Class number 24178), MWF 12 pm - 1 pm at 102 SEC
- Math6370: Numerical Analysis (Class number 24384), MW 4 pm - 5:30 pm at 350 PGH
Research Interests:
- Fictitious domain methods and its applications
- Numerical simulations of particulate flows: suspensions, sedimentation, liquid-solid fluidized bed,
slurry transportation, and etc. in Newtonian and non-Newtonain fluids
- Computational fluid dynamics: Incompressible viscous Newtonian fluid flows, Viscoelastic fluid flows
- Scientific computing
- Numerical analysis
Selected Publications
Animations of Particulate Flow :
- Sedimentation: balls, ellipsoids, truncated cylinders settling in an incompressible viscous Newtonian fluid
- Pattern formation of non-Brownian settling balls in a rotating fluid-filled horizontal cylinder
- Fluidization: 1024 ball fluidized bed, fluidization of 60 truncated cylinders
- Lift-off particles in 3D Poiseuille flows.
Conferences and Seminars:
- Scientific Computing seminar (ITES): Thursdays, 3:00 PM, Room 634 S&R1.
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July 9 - 12, 2008: International Conference on Modeling and Simulation, Xi'an Jiaotong University,Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.
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March 9 and 10, 2007: France - USA Conference on
Applied and Numerical PDEs at 232 PGH, University of Houston.
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March 2 and 3, 2007: 2007 Texas Finite Element Rodeo
at 232 PGH, University of Houston.
Date of last change: August, 2008