Dr. Zhen Li officially joined the Clemson ME faculty last August. A former Research Associate Professor in the Division of Applied Mathematics at Brown University his research expertise is on Multiscale/Multiphysics modeling, Soft matter and Smart materials, Mesoscopic methods. At Clemson, he leads the research group MuthComp (Multiscale Theory and Computation), with research interest on multiple-scale simulation of soft matter and complex fluids, bridging microscale dynamics to continuum theories of materials, development of multiscale simulation methods and tools. He also teaches ME-3080 Fluid Mechanics.
Shortly before arriving at Clemson Dr. Li and his team won the Best Research Poster Award in SC19, The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis. In the SC19 poster “Nanoporous Flow Simulations on the Summit Supercomputer[hyperlink: https://sc19.supercomputing.org/presentation/?id=rpost108&sess=sess348]”, an open-source GPU code USERMESO-2.5 and an arbitrary boundary method developed by Prof. Zhen Li have been applied to running simulations on the Summit supercomputer to study shale gas extraction. More details can be found in their published paper[hyperlink: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2019.106874] in Computer Physics Communications.
Congratulations to Dr. Li and welcome to Clemson University!
