Dr. Lingquan Li, a postdoc researcher at the University of Washington, will give a seminar titled “Towards More Accurate, Efficient and Robust Numerical Method for Compressible Two-phase Flows.”

Abstract: Compressible two-phase flows are encountered in various engineering problems. For example, underwater explosions, and rain droplets encountered by aircrafts. This talk includes numerical study of underwater explosions, a novel hyperbolic Navier-Stokes formulation with reconstructed discontinuous Galerkin method, and a novel sharp interface method for compressible two-phase flows. In the future, further improvement of these numerical methods, as well as further application to hypersonic two-phase flows, fluid-structure interactions, and other challenging problems encountered in Aerospace Engineering, will be studied.

Biography: Dr. Lingquan Li holds a Ph.D. degree in Aerospace Engineering from North Carolina State University. She has been working as a postdoc at George Mason University and the University of Washington in the past four years. Her research interests include development and application of novel numerical method for compressible fluid flows. In the future, she wants to further improve the numerical method for computational fluid dynamics, and investigate in other aspects in Aerospace Engineering. In her free time, she enjoys hiking, arts, and doing Yoga with her cat.