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My research interests include: coupled flows, reservoir flows, mathematical biology, Navier-Stokes, and various topics in numerical analysis
Coupled Flows
Coupling free flow with porous media flow
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The coupling of Navier-Stokes and Darcy equations arises from many applications, for instance in the groundwater contamination where chemical species leak in rivers and reach the subsurface.
Our research has established results:
(i) on well-posedness of weak formulations for both steady-state and time-dependent problems;
(ii) on convergence of various numerical schemes;
(iii) on different models of the interface conditions;
(iv) on the coupling of flow with transport.
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Reservoir Flows
Miscible displacement
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One popular technique of enhanced oil recovery is the injection of miscible solvent in the reservoir.
Our research on miscible displacement has established results:
(i) on convergence of high-order methods in space for smooth solutions;
(ii) on convergence of high order methods in space and in time for low regularity solutions;
(iii) on robustness of discontinuous Galerkin methods for heterogeneous media, and unstable displacement.
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Two-phase flow
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Incompressible two-phase flow (such as oil/water) in porous media
Our research has established results:
(i) on convergence of fully implicit discontinuous Galerkin methods;
(ii) on robustness of sequential discontinuous Galerkin methods for heterogeneous media.
(iii) on dynamic mesh refinement and coarsening
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Three-phase flow
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Incompressible three-phase flow in porous media
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Black-oil
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Molar volume based formulation discretized by discontinuous Galerkin methods
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CO2 storage
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Fully implicit locally mass conservative schemes
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Mathematical Biology
Intestinal edema
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Intestinal edema refers to the accumulation of fluid in interstitial spaces of the intestinal wall tissue.
The condition causes a decrease in intestinal transit due to decreased intestinal smooth muscle contractility.
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Cell motility
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Necrotizing enterocolitis is the leading cause of death from gastrointestinal diseases in neonates.
We have developed a mathematical model of migration of enterocytes. We have modeled the binding of LPS
with TLR4 and the resulting signaling cascade.
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Navier-Stokes
Navier-Stokes
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Discontinuous Galerkin methods for incompressible Navier-Stokes equations.
Our research has established results on:
(i) convergence for steady-state and time-dependent problems
(ii) splitting schemes
(iii) subgrid Eddy viscosity for turbulence models
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Numerical Analysis
Coupled methods
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Multinumerics schemes combines different discretizations in different parts of the computational domain.
Our research has established results on:
(i) coupling discontinuous Galerkin methods with finite volume methods
(ii) coupling discontinuous Galerkin methods with mixed finite element methods
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Uncertainty quantification
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Discontinuous Galerkin methods for stochastic PDEs.
Our research has established results on:
(i) convergence of stochastic discontinuous Galerkin methods for elliptic problems
(ii) convergence of Monte Carlo discontinuous Galerkin methods for elliptic problems
(iii) uncertainty quantification on coupled flow and transport problems
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Low regularity
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Convergence of schemes for low regularity solutions
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Adaptive meshes
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A posteriori error estimates
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