Sheng Zhang at Wayne State University

Sheng Zhang

1255 Faculty/Administration Bldg.
656 W. Kirby
Phone: (313) 577 3172
Fax: (313) 577 7596
E-mail: sheng@math.wayne.edu

Welcome to the home page of Sheng Zhang at the Department of Mathematics of Wayne State University .

I teach two courses at the Wayne State University every semester .
The courses I taught include Mat 1000, Mat 1500, Mat 1800, Mat 2010, Mat 2150, Mat 2020, Mat 2030, Mat 2350, Mat 3430, Sta 1020/Soc 5280, Mat 5100, Mat 5110, Mat 5220, and Mat 5230,
some of which more than once.
I am teaching Mat 1000 and Mat 5230 for the Winter 2008 semester.
Office Hours: MW 1:00 -- 2:00 pm, or email me to make an appointment.

Much of my recent work is on mathematical and numerical analysis of mathematical models that fit in a general form. Examples include the Timoshenko beam model, Koiter and Naghdi type arch models, Kirchhoff-Love and Reissner--Mindlin plate models, Koiter and Naghdi type shell models, Domain embedding for Dirichlet/Neumann problems based on penalty/regularization, and regularization of ill-posed boundary value problems defined on rough domains. Further information can be found in a summary of my recent work and my papers.
My work is supported by the National Science Foundation.
Before these, I studied domain decomposition and multigrid methods.

Ph.D. in Mathematics, The Pennsylvania State University, 2001.
Adviser: Professor Douglas N. Arnold.
Thesis: A Linear Shell Theory Based on Variational Principles [pdf] , [ps] .
Ph.D. from the Computing Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Adviser: Professor Huang Hong-ci.
Thesis: Decompositional Parallel Computations for Elliptic Equations.