Qianlong Liu

Department of Mechanical Engineering
Johns Hopkins University

3400 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218


Office: 314 Latrobe Hall
E-Mail: qianlong.liu@jhu.edu
Research: Direct numerical simulations of extended particles in fluid flows
Advisor: Prof. Prosperetti

Education:

Postdoc Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Work on: Projection method on locally refined meshes,
       Solver development for extended particle flows,
       Applications to contemporary most important multiphase flows
Ph.D. University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
Work on: Brinkman penalization method, Immersed Boundary Methods,
       Nonreflecting boundary conditions,
       Adaptive wavelets, Computational aeroacoustics, RANS
M.S. University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
Work on: Computational science, High performance computing
M.Eng. University of California, Berkeley, CA
Work on: Computer science, Combustion, Fluids, Statistics
M.S. Peking University, Beijing, China
Work on: Computational Fluid Dynamics, Turbulence, Mathematics
B.S. Peking University, Beijing, China
Work on: Mathematics, Mechanics, Statistics

Publications:

Articles in Refereed Journals:

1. Liu, Q. and Vasilyev, O.V., A Brinkman Penalization Method for Compressible Flows in Complex Geometries. Journal of Computational Physics, 227(2), pp. 946-966, 2007.

2. Liu, Q. and Vasilyev, O.V., Nonreflecting Boundary Conditions Based on Nonlinear Multidimensional Characteristics. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, In press, 2009.

3. Liu, Q., A Stable and Accurate Projection Method with Good Conservation Properties on a Locally Refined Staggered Mesh. Journal of Computational Physics, Submitted, 2009.

4. Liu, Q. and Prosperetti, A., Wall effects on a rotating sphere. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Submitted, 2009.

5. Liu, Q. and Prosperetti, A., Stresslet on a sphere in shear flow. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, In preparation, 2009.

6. Liu, Q. and Prosperetti, A., Pressure-driven flow in a three-dimensional channel with porous walls. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, In preparation, 2009.

7. Liu, Q. and Vasilyev, O.V., An Integrated Computational Framework for Compressible Flow Simulations and Flow-Generated Sound Prediction. In preparation, 2008.

8. Liu, Q. and Vasilyev, O.V., A Hybrid Adaptive Wavelet Collocation--Brinkman Penalization Method for Unsteady RANS Simulations of Compressible Flow around Bluff Bodies. AIAA Journal, In preparation, 2008.

Refereed Conference and Symposium Papers:

1. Liu, Q. and Vasilyev, O.V., Hybrid Adaptive Wavelet Collocation--Brinkman Penalization Method for Unsteady RANS Simulations of Compressible Flow around Bluff Bodies. AIAA Paper 2006-3206, 2006.

Dissertation, Theses, and Others:

1. Liu, Q., An Integrated Modeling and Simulation Approach for Flow-Generated Sound Prediction. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 2007.

2. Liu, Q., Inviscid Instability Analysis of Triple Flames. M.Eng. Thesis, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 2001.


Presentations:

Invited Lectures and Seminars:

1. Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego, 2008.

2. CTR Tea Seminar, Center for Turbulence Research, Stanford University/NASA Ames Research Center, 2008.

3. Center for Simulation of Advanced Rockets, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008.

Talks and Poster Presentations:

1. Liu, Q. and Vasilyev, O.V., Hybrid Adaptive Wavelet Collocation -- Brinkman Penalization -- Ffowcs Williams and Hawkings Method for Compressible Flow Simulation and Far-Field Acoustics Prediction. 58th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, American Physical Society, Chicago, Illinois, November 20-22, 2005.

2. Liu, Q. and Vasilyev, O.V., A New Formulation of Brinkman Penalization Method for Compressible Flow Simulations in Complex Geometries. 59th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, American Physical Society, Tampa, Floria, November 19-21, 2006.

3. Liu, Q. and Vasilyev, O.V., Nonreflecting Boundary Conditions Based on Nonlinear Multidimensional Characteristics. 60th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, American Physical Society, Salt Lake City, Utah, November 18-20, 2007.

4. Liu, Q. and Prosperetti, A., Effects of confinement on a rotating sphere. 62nd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, American Physical Society, Minneapolis, Minnesota, November 22-24, 2009.