Qiqi Wang
Assistant Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Education
Ph.D. Major, Computational and Mathematical Engineering,
Stanford University,
Ph.D. Minor, Aeronautics and Astronautics,
Stanford University,
B.S, Mathematics, University of Science and Technology of China.
Research Interests
- High order multivariate interpolation scheme on arbitrary grid;
- Interpolation based high order meshless discretization of partial differential equations;
- Uncertainty quantification of numerical simulations using adjoint and interpolation based methods;
- Control and optimization of complex nonlinear dynamical system with adjoint and interpolation based methods;
- Algorithms for solving unsteady adjoint equations and automatic differentiation;
- Unsteady fluid dynamics, turbulence and flow-structure interaction;
- Visualization of complex fluid flows.
Journal Papers
- A High-Order Multi-Variate Approximation Scheme for Arbitrary Data Sets Q. Wang, P. Moin and G. Iaccarino. submitted to Journal of Computational Physics. ( download pdf )
- A Rational Interpolation Scheme with Super-Polynomial Rate of Convergence Q. Wang, P. Moin and G. Iaccarino. submitted to SIAM Journal of Numerical Analysis. ( download pdf )
- Minimal Repetition Dynamic Checkpointing Algorithm for Unsteady Adjoint Calculation. Q. Wang and P. Moin. To appear in SIAM Journal of Scientific Computing. ( download pdf )
- A Monte Carlo method for solving unsteady adjoint equations Q. Wang, D. Gleich, A. Saberi, N. Etemadi and P. Moin. Journal of Computational Physics, volume 227, issue 12, pages 6184--6205. 2008. ( download pdf )
Conference Publications
- Risk Quantification in Unsteady Flow Simulations using Adjoint-based Approaches Q. Wang, G. Iaccarino, F. Ham and P. Moin. Accepted in 11th AIAA Non-Deterministic Approaches Conference, 2009.
- Topology-Preserved Diffusion Distance for Histogram Comparison. W. Yan, Q. Wang, Q. Liu, H. Lu and S. Ma. 2007. British Machine Vision Conference. ( download pdf )
- Dynamical simulation of contact mechanical surfaces . Q. Wang and W. Huang. 2002. International Conference of Precise Measurement.
PhD Thesis
- Uncertainty Quantification for Unsteady Fluid Flow using
Adjoint-based Approaches.
Q. Wang. Stanford University. December 2008.
( download thesis ) ( download oral defense slides )
Research Activities
- Summer 2008 – present: with
Prof. Parviz Moin
and Prof. Gianluca Iaccarino
High order multivariate interpolation on artitrary grid and its applications in partial differential equations and optimization. - Fall 2005 – Summer 2008: with
Prof. Parviz Moin
and Prof. Gianluca Iaccarino
Uncertainty quantification in turbulence simulations - Spring 2005 – Summer 2005: with Prof. Charbel Farhat
Simulation of flow structure interaction in complex geometry - Fall 2004 – Winter 2004: with Prof. Antony Jameson
Numerical schemes and optimization in aerodynamics - Winter 2003 – Spring 2004: with Prof. Lu, Xiyun
Modelling and simulation of fish swimming - Fall 2001 – Spring 2003: with Prof. Huang, Wen-hao
Simulation of contact mechanical surfaces
Honors and Awards
- Grand Prize for Stanford Computer Graphics Rendering Competition 2007
- SIAM Reward for Academic Excellence 2005
- Meritorious Reward for Mathematical Contest of Modelling 2002