ZHANG Pingwen

Distinguished Professor of Mathematics

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2504S 86-10-62759851 pzhang@pku.edu.cn

Education

Ph.D., Peking University, 1992.
B.S., Peking University, 1988.

Research Interests

Modeling and Simulation of Soft Matter (Complex Fluids);
Applied Analysis and Numerical Analysis;
Moving mesh methods and applications

Selected Publication

Wei Wang, Pingwen Zhang and Zhifei Zhang, The Small Deborah Number Limit of the Doi-Onsager Equation to the Ericksen-Leslie Equation, Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics, 68 (8), 1326-1398, (2015).

Jiequn Han, Yi Luo, Wei Wang, Pingwen Zhang and Zhifei Zhang, From Microscopic Theory to Macroscopic Theory: a Systematic Study on Modeling for Liquid Crystals, Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, 215 (3), 741-809, (2015).

Kai Jiang and Pingwen Zhang, Numerical Methods for Quasicrystals, Journal of omputational Physics, 256, 428-440, (2014).

Wei Wang, Pingwen Zhang, Zhifei Zhang, Well-Posedness of the Ericksen-Leslie System, Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, 210 (3), 837-855, (2013).

Xiuyuan Cheng, Ling Lin, Weinan E, Pingwen Zhang and An-Chang Shi, Nucleation of Ordered Phases in Block Copolymers, Physical Review Letters 104(14) 148301 (2010).