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Teaching

$http://www.math.sc.edu/~qwang/QiWang-08.JPG$

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
Modeling and Computation of Complex Biological Fluids/Materials and Cellular Dynamics
Parallel and High Performance Computing in Heterogeneous Cyberinfrastructure

Current Research Interests:

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

2. Polymer blends, multiphase complex fluids and flows, and flowing polymer-particulate nanocomposites.

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

4. Characterization of mechanical and electric properties of nanocomposite materials; transport phenomena in meso and nanoscales

5. Modeling and computation of ER and MR fluids.

6. Modeling and computation of of biomaterials, complex biofluids (biofilms, biogels), and cellular dynamics.

7. Parallel computation of complex systems and high performance computing; CPU-GPU hybrid computing.