Kinetic Theory

New Challenges in the Kinetic Theory of Complex Fluids

Umberto Zerbinati, Stipendiary Lecturer, Oriel College, University of Oxford

Sep 29, 16:00 - 17:00

B1 L4 R4214

PDEs numerical PDEs Kinetic Theory

This seminar presents a new kinetic theory for complex fluids, detailing the development of a Boltzmann-type equation and discussing its theoretical properties concerning relaxation to equilibrium, hydrodynamic limits, and a novel energy functional for calamitic fluids.

Shuaikun Wang

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science

Nonlinear Partial Differential Equation Measure Valued Solutions Kinetic Theory

Short Bio Shuaikun Wang received his bachelor's degree in Mathematics from University of Science and Technology of China in 2012 and a Ph.D degree in Mathematics from City University of Hong Kong in 2016. He was a postdoc in City University of Hong Kong in 2016-2017 and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Applied PDE group at KAUST from September 2017 - December 2020. Currently he is an Associate Professor in the School of Mathematics, Shandong University, Jinan, China. Shuaikun Wang's research interests lie in the area of applied analysis, nonlinear partial differential equations and