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 501N4 (BLDG 500, Stanford University) E-mail: weiwang1@stanford.edu Phone: (650) 723-9311

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, reacting flows, turbulence and shock waves
• Multiscale discontinuous Galerkin methods for solid mechanics
• Multiscale discontinuous Galerkin methods for quantum semiconductor device simulations
• High order numerical methods for conservation laws, especially discontinuous Galerkin method, WENO method and spectral methods.

Efficient Low Dissipative High Order Multiblock/Embedded Grid Solver for Shock/Turbulence Interactions
More information: project website

Publications:

Journal papers:

• W. Wang, C.-W. Shu, H.C. Yee and B. Sjögreen, High order well-balanced schemes and applications to non-equilibrium flow, Journal of Computational Physics, v228(2009), pp. 6682--6702.



• 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, v40(2009), pp. 360-374..



• 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, J. Guzmán and C.-W. Shu, The multiscale discontinuous Galerkin method for solving a class of second order elliptic problems with rough coefficients, submitted to Multiscale Modeling and Simulation: A SIAM Interdisciplinary Journal.



• W. Wang, H. C. Yee, B. Sjögreen, T. E. Magin and C.-W. Shu, Construction of low dissipative high order well-balanced filter schemes for non-equilibrium flow, to be submitted.



• W. Wang and C.-W. Shu, The WKB local discontinuous Galerkin method for the simulation of 2D Nanoscale MOSFETs, in preparation.

• W. Wang, C.-W. Shu, H. C. Yee and B. Sjögreen, On well-balanced schemes for non-equilibrium flow with stiff source terms, Annual Research Briefs, Center for Turbulence Research, Stanford University (2008).
  
  
• W. Wang, H. C. Yee, B. Sjögreen, T. E. Magin and C.-W. Shu, Construction of low dissipative high order well-balanced filter schemes for non-equilibrium flow, Annual Research Briefs, Center for Turbulence Research, Stanford University (2009).

• W. Wang, Multiscale discontinuous Galerkin methods and applications, Ph.D. Thesis, Brown University, 2008.