Welcome to my homepage! I am a Post-doctoral Fellow of Center for Turbulence Research at Stanford University. Mailing address: 488 Escondido Mall BLDG 500, room 500A Stanford, CA 94305 USA Office: Room 012 (180 George Street, Brown University) Room 501N4 (BLDG 500, Stanford University) E-mail: weiwang1@stanford.edu

Academic Background:

• Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, May 2008.
  Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University, Providence, RI. Advisor: Prof. Chi-Wang Shu



• B.Sc. in Mathematics, June 2004.
  University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, P. R. China.

Research Interests:

• Computational fluid dynamics
• Multiscale discontinuous Galerkin methods for solid mechanics
• Multiscale discontinuous Galerkin methods for semiconductor device simulations
• Discontinuous Galerkin methods with non-polynomial building blocks

Publications:

• W. Wang, X. Li and C.-W. Shu, The discontinuous Galerkin method for the multiscale modeling of dynamics of crystalline solids, Multiscale Modeling and Simulation: A SIAM Interdisciplinary Journal, v7(2008), pp. 294-320.



• W. Wang and C.-W. Shu, The WKB local discontinuous Galerkin method for the simulation of Schrodinger equation in a resonant tunneling diode, Journal of Scientific Computing, to appear.

Teaching:

• APMA1210: Operations Research, Teaching Assistant, Fall 2007
• APMA0360: Methods of Applied Mathematics II, Teaching Assistant, Spring 2006
• APMA0340: Methods of Applied Mathematics I, Teaching Assistant, Fall 2005

Conference:

• Workshop on Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Partial Differential Equations, Banff, AB, Canada, Nov 25-30, 2007.



• Participant:
  • Advances and Challenges in the Solution of Stochastic Partial Differential Equation, Brown University, Providence, RI, October 20-22, 2006.
  • Mini-Symposium on Computational Quantum and Kinetic Transport Phenomena, SIAM Conference on Analysis of Partial Differential Equations, Boston, MA, July 10-12, 2006.