Advances in Fluid Mechanics: Modelling and Simulations (Forum for Interdisciplinary Mathematics)

Lucy T. Zhang is Professor at the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), U.S.A. She is an elected Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Her research interests focus on building advanced and robust computational tools and software for accurate and efficient multiphysics and multiscale simulations that can be used for engineering applications in biomechanics, micro- and nano-mechanics, medicine and defense projects involving impacts. She is a recipient of the Young Investigator Award at the International Conference for Computational Methods. Her pioneer work in developing the immersed finite element method had been and is still being widely used in academic engineering and scientific communities. Professor Zhang is now developing open-source tools and technology, OpenIFEM, that can convenientlyand efficiently couple any existing solvers for multiphysics and multiscale simulations and analysis. She is Associate Editor of the Journal of Fluid and Structures, ASME Journal of Fluids Engineering and Computer Methods and Engineering Sciences.