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Professor of Mathematics and Adjunct Professor of Chemistry and BioChemistry
Applied and Computational Mathematics Program
 Thrust Leader
Nanoscale Theory, Modeling and Simulation Thrust

Ph. D., The Ohio State University, 1991.
B. S., Nankai University, 1982.

Department of Mathematics and NanoCenter at USC
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
(Tel): (803) 777-6268 (Math), (803) 777-2217 (NanoCenter)
(Fax): (803) 777-6527
Email: qwang@math.sc.edu

 

Research Areas:

  • Applied and Computational Mathematics
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics and  Rheology of Complex Fluids
  • Continuum Mechanics and Kinetic Theory  
  • Multiscale Modeling and computation of soft matter and  complex fluids of anisotropic  Microstructures
  • Multiscale modeling and computation of biofluids and biomaterials
  • Parallel and high performance Computing
 

Current Research Interests:

  1. Fluid Dynamics and rheology of complex fluids, especially, flows of liquid crystal polymers, biaxial liquid crystals, phase transition, pattern formation and defect dynamics of liquid crystal polymers.

  2. Polymer blends, multiphase flows, and flowing nanocomposites.

  3. Multiscale theory, kinetic theory and tensor based continuum theory for flows of complex fluids of microstructures  and rheology of flowing nanocomposite  materials.

  4. Characterization of mechanical and electric properties of nanocomposite materials.

  5. Modeling and computation of ER and MR fluids.

  6. Modeling and computation of of biomaterials, biofluids, and  cell dynamics.

  7. Parallel computation of complex systems and high performance computing.

  8. Wave propagation in anisotropic media.

My research has been partially supported by grants from AFOSR (Air Force Office of Scientific Research) and NSF (National Science Foundation.)

 
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