Yongning Zhu


Ph.D. student
Mathematics Department, UCLA
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Office:MS 7630
Email:yzhu@math.ucla.edu

I am a fifth year Ph.D. student in Mathematics Department at UCLA. I am working with Prof. Achi Brandt, Prof. Joseph Teran and Dr. Eftychios Sifakis on multigrid methods for physics based animation. Before that, I completed a M.S. in Computer Science at University of British Columbia and B.S. in Scientific and Engineering Computation at Peking University from China.

My research interest is on fast methods for PDE, physics-based simulation and scientific computing.

This is my previous website at University of British Columbia at Vancouver.

Research

Research Statement pdf

Efficient multigrid methods for solids simulation pdf

  • Nonlinear multigrid method for hyperelastic solids
  • Coefficient independent multigrid method for linear/corotated linear elasticity
  • Contacting and collision

Fluid simulation and sand simulation pdf

  • Particle-In-Cell method and Fluid-Implicit-Particle method for fluid simulation
  • Animating sand as a fluid with frictional plasticity
  • Surface reconstruction from particles


MusicBeads

  • a music visualization tool using Matlab GUI
  • aiming at a faithful representation of music and a visual imitating of music hearing experience. Hopefully, it can be helpful for deaf dancers who have been experiencing music by viberation.
    Classical Chinese music(Dizi, Zheng and vocal)1 2
    Pop music(Rock)1
    Voice(Vajra Prajna Paramita Sutra)1 2


Teaching

OfficeMS 3970
TA PIC 40A discussion New RSS page!
Discussion TR 1:00~1:50pm, MS 5217
Offic hour TW 2:00~2:50pm, PIC lab(Boelter Hall 2817)
Emailyzhu at math dot ucla dot edu
I am a graduate student of applied and computational mathematics. Computational mathematics means we do computation, careful budgeting for every penny of memory and every second for the computer. If it goes crazy, we have to dig out bugs and ants. Well, there are times of getting bored by it and leave it alone, ... which happens a lot. In applicational aspect, I am doing physics-basid animation.

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