In April, the BNU-UIC Research Centre for Mathematics and the Division of Science and Technology held several Distinguished Lectures and invited scholars to share their research and methods on topics including mathematics and physics.
On the afternoon of 21 April, Prof Fu Song from the School of Aerospace Engineering, Tsinghua University, shared his research on aerodynamics.
UIC President Prof Tang Tao (left) presents a souvenir to Prof Fu Song
In his lecture, Prof Fu Song introduced aerodynamics research, which Tsinghua University carried out. He also talked about the airfoil's aerodynamic characteristics of China's C919 aircraft, hypersonic boundary layer transition, and turbulent flow simulation.
He was elected to a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) in 2014 and received several domestic and international awards. Professor Fu received his bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College London in 1983 and PhD degree at Manchester University in 1988. His research in recent years focuses on turbulent flow simulation and modelling, mainly in the field related to aerospace engineering. In particular, he has been interested in drag reduction, flow separation and their control mechanism. He also developed a transition model for hypersonic boundary layer flows. His team accomplished the design of supercritical airfoils and wings of C919 and the wing-nacelle integrated design.
Prof Jin Shi from Shanghai Jiao Tong University gave a lecture titled 'A mathematical journey from the micro to the macro world' on 15 April and introduced the mathematical connections from quantum mechanics, classical mechanics, kinetic theory, and continuum mechanics.
Prof Jin explained that these problems are the core problems of partial differential equations, mathematical physics and multi-scale calculations. The mathematical and physical tools used are also crucial for data science, machine learning and uncertain quantification.
Prof Jin Shi, Chair of the Department of Mathematics and co-dean of Institute of Natural Sciences, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, was recently invited to number among the first Fellows of the American Mathematical Society.
He received the BS in Computational Math from Peking University in 1983. He earned a PhD in Applied Math from the University of Arizona in 1991. He worked as Post-doc in Courant Institute at New York University and was a Chair of the Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2008-2011). At the 2018 International Congress of Mathematicians, he gave a 45-minute invited report.
Prof Liao Shijun from Shanghai Jiao Tong University explained the homotopy analysis method for nonlinear problems on 14 April.
UIC Vice President (Academic) Prof Huang Huaxiong (right) presents a souvenir to Prof Liao Shijun
There are many nonlinear problems in mechanics and applied mathematics. It is of great scientific value to obtain the approximate analytical solution of a nonlinear equation. However, the traditional approximate analytical method usually cannot give efficient solutions for all physical parameters. In his talk, Prof Liao introduced the basic idea and application of his original homotopy analysis method.
Prof Liao Shijun is the Chair Professor of the School of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Civil Engineering, and Director of the State Key Lab of Ocean Engineering Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His main research fields are nonlinear mechanics, computational fluid dynamics, applied mathematics and ocean engineering.
Prof Liao has published more than a hundred SCI papers and has won many awards, including the Second Prize of National Natural Science Award in 2016. Prof Liao was elected to Thomson Reuters's Highly Cited Researchers for three consecutive years from 2014 to 2016.
From MPRO
Reporter: Covee Wang
Editors: Samuel Burgess, Deen He
