Primary Investigator
Zhen Li, Ph.D. Full CV (PDF)
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634
Contact
Email: zli7 [AT] clemson [DOT] edu
Phone: 864-656-7189
Address: 214 Fluor Daniel Building, Clemson University
Research Profiles on:
Current Students
Ali Mohammadi PhD Student
Ali received his B.S. degree in Mechanics of Agricultural Machines Engineering from Shahrekord University in 2014, and his M.S. degree in Biosystems Engineering from Clemson University in 2019. He is now a PhD student in the MuthComp group at Clemson.
Research Interest:
Anomalous transport phenomena of active matter.
Migration of active nanoparticles in blood flow.
Publications: [Comput. Mech. 2023]
[J. Chem. Phys. 2023]
[ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2024]
Faisal Tushar PhD Student
Faisal received his B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) in 2019. He is now a PhD student in the MuthComp group at Clemson.
Research Interest:
Mesoscopic methods for electrokinetic phenomena.
Multiscale modeling of viscoelastic complex fluid, multiphase flow and soft matter.
Publications: [J. Fluid Mech. 2022]
Ezhin Aliahmadi PhD Student
Ezhin received her B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Isfahan University of Technology in 2020. She is now a PhD student in the MuthComp group at Clemson.
Research Interest:
Theoretical foundation of coarse-graining and scale-bridging.
Non-Markovian modeling of complex fluids.
Ryan Wan PhD Student
Ryan received his B.S. degree in Engineering Mechanics from Hohai University in 2015, and his M.S. degree in Computational Mechanics from Dalian University of Technology in 2018. Ryan is now a PhD student in the MuthComp group at Clemson.
Research Interest:
Coupling of Fluid Solvers for Multiscale Complex Fluids.
Multi-fidelity Modeling for Composites and Soft Matter.
Haizhou Wen PhD Student
Haizhoou received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Engineering Mechanics from Shanghai University in 2021 and 2024. Haizhou is now a PhD student in the MuthComp group at Clemson.
Research Interest:
Deep neural operator learning for multiscale materials.
Multi-fidelity Modeling for Composites and Soft Matter.
Visiting Scholars
Shun Tomizawa Visiting PhD student
Fall 2023, Fall 2024
Shun is an M2 student in the Hasegawa lab at the University of Tokyo, Japan. He has been granted a Study Abroad “Musha Syugyo” Program opportunity to visit the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Clemson University.
Research Interest:
Blood flow simulation using dissipative particle dynamics
Mesoscale phenomena of complex fluids
Piet Jarmatz Visiting PhD Student
Spring 2023
Piet is a PhD student in the High Performance Computing group at Helmut-Schmidt-Universität, Germany. He has been awarded a German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) scholarship to visit the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Clemson University.
Research Interest:
Hybrid molecular-continuum flow simulations
Supervised parallel-in-time algorithms for molecular-continuum coupling
Salahudin Sheikh Visiting PhD Student
Fall 2022
Salahudin is a PhD student in Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse (Toulouse INP), France. He has been awarded an International Mobility Grant from University of Toulouse to visit the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Clemson University.
Research Interest:
Anomalous transport processes in emulsions
Mesoscopic modeling of micelles and lipid bilayers [J. Chem. Phys. 2023]
High School Student Internship
- Elijah Andrew Douglas Kasal, Summer Program for Research Interns (SPRI) 2024 A high school student from South Carolina Governor’s School for Science and Mathematics (GSSM).
Topic: Mesoscale Simulation of Thermoresponsive Polymers using Clemson’s High-Performance Cluster.
- Rohan Sarkar, Summer Program for Research Interns (SPRI) 2023 A high school student from South Carolina Governor’s School for Science and Mathematics (GSSM).
Topic: Phase transitions of thermoresponsive polymers.
- Raja Villareal, Summer Program for Research Interns (SPRI) 2022 A high school student from South Carolina Governor’s School for Science and Mathematics (GSSM).
Topic: Exploring the microphase separation of thermoresponsive polymers induced by temperature changes.
- John Brent, Summer Program for Research Interns (SPRI) 2021 A high school student from South Carolina Governor’s School for Science and Mathematics (GSSM).
Topic: Determine the self-cleaning mechanics through high performance computing on Clemson’s Palmetto supercomputer.
Former Students
Minglei (Miles) Lu PhD Student
Miles received his B.S. degree in Mechanical Design Manufacture from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2017, and M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2021. Miles was a PhD student in the MuthComp group at Clemson and graduated in Dec. 2024.
Research Interest:
Physics-Informed Neural Network Models for Multiscale Problems.
Deep Neural Operator Approaches for Surrogate of Physical Models.
Publications: [Comput. Mech. 2023]
[Powder Technol. 2024]
[Int. J. Multiph. Flow 2024]
Robert Mason Thomas Undergraduate Student
Mason was an Undergraduate Research Assistant in the MuthComp group working on blood flow simulations using dissipative particle dynamics.
Research Interest:
Blood flows and mesoscopic biophysical phenomena.
Jonathan Despeaux Undergraduate Student
Jonathan was an Undergraduate Research Assistant in the MuthComp group to initiate his research work on computational fluid dynamics. He is now a PhD student at the University of Texas at Austin.
Jonathan was the President of Clemson’s ASHRAE Student Chapter.
Research Interest:
Multiscale simulations and analysis of complex fluids and smart materials.
- Jordan Noel: (Undergraduate Student at Clemson University), Spring 2021. Jordan was an Undergraduate Research Assistant in the MuthComp group to initiate his research work on computational fluid dynamics. Topic: Neural network models for autonomous control informed by multi-fidelity data.
- Yu-Hang Tang: (PhD student at Brown, now is a Senior Software Engineer at NVIDIA, co-supervised with Prof. George Karniadakis), 2013-2017. Topic: Multiscale methods and applications to functional materials and soft matter.
- Mingge Deng: (PhD student at Brown, now is a Senior Staff Software Engineer at GOOGLE, co-supervised with Prof. George Karniadakis), 2013-2016. Topic: Lagrangian approach for mesoscopic electrokinetics with electrostatic fluctuations.
- Ansel Blumers: (PhD student at Brown, now is a Senior Software Engineer at MathWorks, co-supervised with Prof. George Karniadakis), fall 2015 to 2019. Topic: Parallel-in-time algorithms for large-scale simulations of stochastic dynamics.
- Yi Wang: (visiting PhD student at Brown), fall 2018 to 2019. Topic: Controlled release of entrapped nanoparticles from thermoresponsive hydrogels.
- Lifei Zhao: (visiting PhD student at Brown), fall 2016 to 2018. Topic: Active-learning methods applied to multiscale simulation of complex fluids.
- Kaixuan Zhang: (visiting PhD student at Brown), 2017-2018. Topic: Stochastic simulations of mesoscale multiphase flows and wetting phenomena.
- Yuying Wang: (visiting PhD student at Brown), 2017-2018. Topic: Concurrent coupling of heterogeneous solvers for multiscale biological processes.
- Theodora Myrto Perdikari: (visiting B.S. student at Brown), 2016 Summer Intern. Topic: Particle-based methods for simulations of amphiphilic molecules.