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Jian Du

Associate Professor | College of Engineering and Science: Department of Mathematics and Systems Engineering

Contact Information

jdu@fit.edu
(321) 674-8912
Frederick C. Crawford Bldg, RM334

Expertise

Mathematical Biology, Scientific Computing, Numerical Analysis, Fluid Mechanics

Educational Background

Ph.D. Stony Brook University, 2007

Professional Experience

Associate Professor, Florida Institute of Technology, 2018-present

Assistant Professor, Florida Institute of Technology, 2012-2018

Current Courses

MTH 4201 Models in Applied Mathematics

MTH 5315 Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations

Selected Publications

(Co-authors marked with * are my PhD students)

[1]  Modeling and Simulation of the Ion-Binding-Mediated Swelling Dynamics of Mucin-like Poly-electrolyte Gels. Jian Du, Owen Lewis, James Keener, Aaron Fogelson, Gels, 2021, accepted for publication. 

[2]  Enhancement of Active Swimming Near Fluid Interfaces. Avriel Cartwright*, Jian Du, ISAIC 2021

[3] Low Reynolds Number Swimming Near Interfaces in Multi-Fluid Media. Avriel Cartwright*, Jian Du, Applied Sciences, 11 (2021), 9109.

[4] Computational Investigation of Platelet Thrombus Mechanics and Stability in Stenotic Channels. Jian Du, Elise Aspray*, Aaron Fogelson, Journal of Biomechanics, 122 (2021), 110398.

[5] Low Reynolds Number Swimming with Slip Boundary Conditions. Hashim Alshehri*, Nesreen Althobaiti*, Jian DuInternational Conference on Computational Science, 12141 (2020), pp. 149–162.

[6] Clot Permeability, Agonist Transport, and Platelet Binding Kinetics in Arterial Thrombosis. Jian Du, Dongjune Kim, Ghadah Alhawael*, David Ku, Aaron Fogelson, Biophysical Journal, 119 (2020), pp. 2102-2115.

[7]  A Two-phase Mixture Model of Platelet Aggregation. Jian Du, Aaron Fogelson, Mathematical Medicine and Biology, 35 (2018), pp. 225-256. MMB Best Paper Award 2016-2017.

[8]  Evolution of Interfaces for the Nonlinear Double Degenerate Parabolic Equation of Turbulent Filtration with Absorption. Ugur Abdulla, Jian Du, Adam Prinkey, Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, 153 (2018), pp. 59-82.

[9]  An Immersed Boundary Method for Two-fluid Mixtures. Jian Du, Aaron Fogelson, Robert Guy, Journal of Computational Physics, 262 (2014), pp. 231-243.

[10]  Low Reynolds-Number Swimming in Two-phase Fluids. Jian Du, James Keener, Robert Guy, Aaron Fogelson, Physical Review E 85 (2012), 036304.

[11]  A Numerical Algorithm for MHD of Free Surface Flows at Low Magnetic Reynolds Numbers. Roman Samulyak, Jian Du, James Glimm, Zhiliang Xu, Journal of Computational Physics, 226 (2007), pp. 1532-1549.

[12]  A Simple Package for Front Tracking. Jian Du, Brian Fix, James Glimm, Xiaolin Li, et al., Journal of Computational Physics, 213 (2006), pp. 613-628.

Research

Mathematical biology, modeling and numerical algorithms for biological fluid and fluid-structure interactions.

Current/Past Research Grants 

[1] Co-Investigator, NIH/NIGMS Grant (1R01GM131408 Grant Extension), “Modeling Gastric Mucus Layer Physiology”, 2022-2024. Amount awarded to Florida Tech $19, 896.

[2] Co-Investigator, NIH/NIGMS Grant (1R01GM131408), “Modeling Gastric Mucus Layer Physiol- ogy”, 2018 - 2022. Amount awarded to Florida Tech $169, 455.

[3] Principal Investigator, NSF Mathematical Biology Grant (DMS-1715156), “Collaborative Research: Blood Clotting at the Extreme – Mathematical and Experimental Investigation of Platelet Deposi- tion in Stenotic Arteries”, 2017 - 2020. Amount awarded to Florida Tech $149, 999.

[4] Co-Principal Investigator, NSF Focused Research Group Grant (DMS-1160432), “Chemically-active Viscoelastic Mixture Models in Physiology: Formulation, Analysis, and Computation”, 2012 − 2016. Amount awarded to Florida Tech $87, 000.

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