Xiaofan Li
Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics
Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles

Research Interests:

Computational Fluid Dynamics: particulate flows, rheology of suspensions and emulsions; Computational Material Science; Numerical Analysis: boundary integral method.

Selected Publications:

• Two- and three-dimensional equilibrium morphology of a misfitting particle and the Gibbs-Thomson effect, with K. Thornton, Q. Nie, P. W. Voorhees and J. S. Lowengrub, Acta Meter. 52 (2004), 5829-5843.
• Microstructural evolution in three-dimensional inhomogeneous elastic media, with J. S. Lowengrub, Q. Nie, V. Cristini and P. H. Leo, Metal. Trans. 34A (2003), 1421-1431.
• Film flow of a suspension down an inclined plane, with C. Pozrikidis, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. A 361, (2003) 847-869.
• Optimized shapes of oscillating resonators for generating high-amplitude pressure waves, with J. Finkbeiner, G. Raman, C. Daniels and B. Steinetz, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 116 (2004), 2814-2821.
• Effect of surfactants on drop deformation and on the rheology of dilute emulsions in Stokes flow, with C. Pozrikidis, J. Fluid Mech. 341 (1997), 165-194.