University of Houston

Department of Mathematics
Tsorng-Whay Pan

Tsorng-Whay Pan

Professor


Office:683 PGH
Office Hours: 10am-11am, MoWeFr, or by appointment (Spring, 2013)
Phone: (713) 743-3448 ; Fax: (713) 743-3505
Email: pan@math.uh.edu
Mailing address: Department of Mathematics, 651 PGH, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204-3008


Research:

  • Research interests: Fluid/particle interaction, Blood cell motion in microchannel, Computational fluid dynamics, Scientific Computing, Numerical Analysis.
  • Research funding.
  • Animation of simulation results of particulate flow and blood cell motion.
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the NSF.

Teaching

The Courses I teach in Summer II, 2013:
  1. Math 2433: Cal III (MoTuWeThFr:10AM-12PM at SEC 102)
    • Prerequisites: Math 1432. (Students who do not have the prerequisite should drop this course).
    • Textbook: Salas, Hille and Etgen, Calculus: one and several variables, 9th edition, Wiley. You have to buy an access code in order to view the textbook and etc. via the web page: CASA/CourseWare.

Information for the Math Dept Computing

My former Ph.D. Students: The following is a list of students who completed Ph. D. under my direction and their current, or last known, positions. Any updates, or corrections, will be appreciated. I have also supervised many M.S. students.
  1. Jian Hao, Ph.D., 2007, Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Mathematics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas TX.
  2. Tong Wang, Ph.D., 2008, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China.

Seminars and Conferences:

  1. Scientific computing seminar: Thursdays, 3:00 PM, Room 646 PGH.

  2. April 15 and 16, 2011: Workshop on Advances in Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing on Occasion of the 60th Anniversary of Ronald H.W. Hoppe

  3. July 9 - 12, 2008: International conference on modeling and simulation, Xi'an Jiaotong University,Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.

  4. March 9 and 10, 2007: France - USA Conference on Applied and Numerical PDEs at 232 PGH, University of Houston.

  5. March 2 and 3, 2007: 2007 Texas Finite Element Rodeo at 232 PGH, University of Houston.