Pengtao Sun

Biography

Dr. Pengtao Sun is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. Dr. Sun obtained his PhD from Institute of Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences and his Master and Bachelor degree from Shandong University. Before joining UNLV in 2007, he worked as Postdoctoral Fellow, Research Associate, and Assistant Professor at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Pennsylvania State University, and Simon Fraser University.

Dr. Pengtao Sun's primary research fields are Numerical Solutions of Partial Differential Equations, Numerical Analysis, Finite Element Method, Finite Volume Method, Fast Solver, Deep Neural Network Modeling, and Scientific & Engineering Computing with various applications in interdisciplinary areas (solid mechanics, fluid dynamics, fluid-structure interaction, hydrodynamics, hemodynamics, aerodynamics, astrophysics, electro-hydrodynamics, fuel cell dynamics, and etc.). Dr. Sun's research works have been supported by UNLV Faculty Opportunity Award since 2008, by NSF since 2009 and by Simons Foundation since 2020.

Dr. Pengtao Sun's recent research interests focus on the modeling and numerical studies for fluid and structure interaction problems and generally unsteady multiphysics problems modeled by coupled PDE system and involved with moving interfaces and jump coefficients, for which his numerical methodologies include arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) method, fictitious domain method and full Eulerian phase field method. Moreover, Dr. Sun is also an expert on modeling and efficient numerical methodology studies for fuel cell dynamics, solar cell dynamics, lithium battery and other types of clean energy technologies. Besides the above, Dr. Sun has also been accomplished in anisotropic & isotropic adaptive finite element method, phase field method, domain decomposition method and deep neural network (DNN) method in the area of numerical PDEs.

Fluid-Structure Interaction (FSI) Simulations in Hydrodynamics & Hemodynamics