
- Professor, Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fellow of TWAS
- Peking University (PKU)
- Mail: School of Mathematical Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China, 100871.
- Tel: 86-10-62759851
- Fax: 86-10-62751801
- Email: pzhang {at} pku.edu.cn
- Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences for the advancement of science in developing countries(2016)
- Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(2015)
- Feng Kang Prize of Scientific Computing(1999)
- 2014 National Prize of Natural Sciences (Second-prize)
- Invited Speaker, 2018 International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM2018)
- Invited Speaker, 2014 SIAM Annual Meeting (AN14)
- Invited Speaker, 7th International Congress on Industrial & Applied Mathematics (ICIAM 2011)
- Chair of Sub-Committee of Academic, 8th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM 2015)
- President, China Society for Industry and Applied Mathematics (CSIAM)
- Vice President (2002-2006, 2010-2014), China Society for Computational Mathematics (CSCM)
Research Interests
Selected Publication [Publications by subject] [Publications]
Modeling and Simulation of Soft Matter (Complex Fluids)
- From Microscopic Theory to Macroscopic Theory: a Systematic Study on Modeling for Liquid Crystals [PDF]
with Jiequn Han, Yi Luo, Wei Wang, and Zhifei Zhang Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, 215 (3), 741-809, (2015). - Numerical Methods for Quasicrystals [PDF]
with Kai Jiang Journal of Computational Physics, 256, 428-440, (2014). - A Strategy to Explore Stable and Metastable Ordered Phases of Block Copolymers [PDF]
with Weiquan Xu, Kai Jiang and An-Chang Shi Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 117 (17), 5296-5405, (2013). - On the existence of a third-order phase transition beyond the Andrews
critical point: A molecular dynamics study [PDF]
with Han Wang, Site Luigi Delle Journal of Chemical Physics, 135, 224506, (2011). - Origin of epitaxies between ordered phases of block copolymers [PDF]
with Chu Wang, Kai Jiang, and An-Chang Shi
Soft Matter, 7, 10552-10555, (2011). - Spectral method for exploring patterns of diblock copolymers[PDF]
with Kai Jiang, Yunqing Huang
Journal of Computational Physics, 229(20), 7796-7805, (2010) - Nucleation of Ordered Phases in Block Copolymers [PDF]
with Xiuyuan Cheng, Ling Lin, Weinan E and An-Chang Shi
Physical Review Letters, 104(14), 148301, (2010). - A numerical method for the study of nucleation of ordered phases [PDF]
with Ling Lin, Xiuyuan Cheng, Weinan E, An-Chang Shi
Journal of Computational Physics, 229(5), 1797-1809, (2010). - An efficient numerical method of Landau-Brazovskii model[PDF]
with Xinwei Zhang
Journal of Computational Physics, 227 (11), 5859-5870, (2008). - Numerical simulation of phase separation coupled with crystallization[PDF]
with Dongzhuo Zhou, An-Chang Shi
Journal of Chemical Physics, 129, 154901, (2008) - A kinetic-hydrodynamic simulation of microstructure of liquid crystal polymers in
plane shear flow[PDF]
with Haijun Yu
Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics 141 (2-3): 116-127, (2007) - Modified models of polymer phase separation[PDF]
with Dongzhuo Zhou and Weinan E
Physical Review E 73 (6): 061801, Jun. (2006)
Applied Analysis and Numerical Analysis
- The Small Deborah Number Limit of the Doi-Onsager Equation to the Ericksen-Leslie Equation [PDF]
with Wei Wang and Zhifei Zhang Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics, 68 (8), 1326-1398, (2015). - Well-Posedness of the Ericksen-Leslie System [PDF]
with Wei Wang and Zhifei Zhang, Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, 210 (3), 837-855, (2013). - Mathematical analysis of multi-scale models of complex fluids [PDF]
with Tiejun Li
Communications in Mathematical Sciences 5 (1): 1-51, (2007). - Local existence for the FENE-dumbbell model of polymeric fluids [PDF]
with Hui Zhang
Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, 181 (2): 373-400, (2006). - Axial symmetry and classification of stationary solutions of Doi-Onsager equation on the sphere with Maier-Saupe potential [PDF]
with Hailiang Liu, Hui Zhang
Communications in Mathematical Sciences, 3:201-218, (2005). - The structure of equilibrium solutions of one-dimensional Doi equation[PDF]
with Chong Luo, Hui Zhang
Nonlinearity, 18, 379-389, (2005). - Analysis of the heterogeneous multiscale method for elliptic homogenization problems[PDF]
with Weinan E and Pingbing Ming
Journal of the American Mathematical Society 18 (1): 121-156, (2005). - Well-posedness for the dumbbell model of polymeric fluids [PDF]
with Weinan E and Tiejun Li
Communications in Mathematical Physics, 248 (2): 409-427, (2004)
Moving Mesh Methods and Applications
- Moving mesh finite element methods for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations [PDF]
with Yana Di, Ruo Li and Tao Tang
SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, 26 (3): 1036-1056, (2005). - A moving mesh finite element algorithm for singular problems for two and three space dimensions[PDF]
with Ruo Li and Tao Tang
Journal Computational Physics, 177, 365-393, (2002). - Moving mesh methods in multiple dimensions based on harmonic maps [PDF]
with Ruo Li and Tao Tang
Journal of Computational Physics, 170, 562-588, (2001).