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Zhen Li is currently a research assistant professor in the CRUNCH group of Brown University. He received his Ph.D. in Fluid Mechanics in 2011 from Shanghai University after having his B.S. in Engineering Mechanics from Wuhan University in 2005.
Zhen Li's researches on fluid mechanics and applied mathematics focus on complex fluids and complex flows, typically on small scales. He models complex fluids by Lagrangian methods, including molecular dynamics (MD), dissipative particle dynamics (DPD), smoothed dissipative particle dynamics (SDPD) and smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH), and studies the dynamics in nano-/microfluidic systems as well as biological and biomedical fluid dynamics.
Zhen Li is working on coarse-graining analysis of mesoscopic modeling for quantifying the coarse-grained methods via Mori-Zwanzig formulation, which provides accurate mesoscopic model for applications in biophysical systems and material research. He has expertise on stochastic molecular dynamics and dissipative particle dynamics with applications to multiphase flows and heat transfer coupled with hydrodynamics at microscales.
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