Annual Report 2008.pdf - SAMSI

contributing team member, as often coming up with a clever way past a hurdle as would her
more senior colleagues.
Elaine has been a mainstay in the education and outreach program at SAMSI, participating very
effectively in a number of the workshops for undergraduates.
Weigang Zhong (Random Media)
Activity Report
Course: Numerical Methods for Free Boundary and Moving Interface Problems
Workshops Attended:
Random Media Opening Workshop,
Interface Problems Workshop
Wave and Image Workshop
Transition Workshop
Postdoc-Grad Student Seminar Presentations:
1. Intro of high-performance numerical package for complex fluids, Nov. 29, 2007.
Undergraduate Workshop(s) – Participation (specifics to be added NOW):
SAMSI/CRSC Undergraduate Workshop
Presentation: Introduction to the Computing System and Matlab, May 19, 2008.
Working Group I Heterogeneity in biological materials
Special Tasks: Scribe, webmaster, coordinator
Presentations:
Introduction of IBAMR, a high-performance numerical package for biological
complex fluids, Nov. 2007.
Research Area – Plans:
1. Material Particle Methods for Numerical Simulations of Bio-fluids.
2. Immersed Boundary Methods for Visco-elastic fluids
Working Group II Interface problems
Special Tasks: webmaster, coordinator
Presentations:
Numerical Approximations of distributions and the Gibbs Phenomenon, May 2008.
Research Area – Plans:
1. Numerical Approximations of generalized functions.
2. Multiscale Methods for Hyperbolic-elliptic Mixed Systems
Progress Report
Working Group I Heterogeneity in biological materials
Research Areas
Multi-scale Numerical Simulations of Complex -fluids.
Collaborators & Mentor: M. Gregory Forest and Isaac Klapper
I study the multi-scale modeling and computations in complex fluids. Our research aims to
explore the fluid-solid mechanics associated with the biological fluids which are usually
composed of a visco-elastic structure immersed in a viscous incompressible fluid. The visco-