Welcome to Dr. Lihua Wang's home page!

Ph.D,  Professor
Associate Director of Institute of Computational Mechanics and Simulation
School of Aerospace Engineering and Applied
Mechanics, Tongji University

Address: 311, East Building, 100 Zhangwu Road

Tel/Fax: 86-21-65983267

E-mail: lhwang@tongji.edu.cn

Research Interests: Computational Mechancis, Structural Dynamics  

Areas of Research Interest

  • Development of meshfree radial basis functions method

    Development of meshfree radial basis functions method for heterogeneous problems, fracture mechanics, nearly incompressible elasticity, time-variant dynamical systems, inverse problems and fluid hydrodynamics.
    Stability and numerical dispersion study of radial basis functions method in wave problems and dynamics.
    Vibration and buckling analysis for functionally graded materials based on radial basis collocation method.
    Inverse wave propagation problem using collocation and radial basis functions

  • Dynamics of axially moving systems

    Dynamical analysis of system involving rigid body motion and flexible deformation.
    Dynamical analysis of axially moving systems in large deformation.

  • Dynamics of dragonfly wings

    Dynamics of the dragonfly wings raised by blood circulation

  • Mechanics of functionally graded materials (FGMs)

    Static, vibration and buckling analysis of functionally graded materials.

Welcome the students with backgrounds in engineering mechanics, aerospace engineering, civil engineering, computer science, mechanical engineering, and automotive engineering to join our team for pursuing master's or doctoral degrees, or engaging in postdoctoral research!