Tsorng-Whay Pan
Professor of Mathematics

Office : 683 PGH
Office hours: 3pm - 4pm MW or by appointment (Fall, 2009)
Phone: (713) 743-3448; Fax: (713) 743-3505; e-mail : pan@math.uh.edu


The Courses I teach in Fall, 2009:
Research Interests:
  1. Fictitious domain methods and its applications:
  2. Immersed boundary methods and its applications :
  3. Computational fluid dynamics: Incompressible viscous flows and 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. Migration and orientation of a neutrally buoyant particle in 3D Poiseuille flows.
  4. Fluidization: 1024 ball fluidized bed, fluidization of 60 truncated cylinders


Conferences and Seminars:

  1. Scientific Computing seminar: 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: October, 2009