Books, Special Issues, and Proceedings

    1. The Immersed Interface Method: Numerical Solutions of PDEs Involving Interfaces and Irregular DomainsSIAM Frontiers in Applied Mathematics 33, 2006, ISBN-10: 0-89871-609-8 / ISBN-13: 978-0-898716-09-2, Zhilin Li and Kazufumi Ito.  Erratum.
    2. Moving Interface Problems and Application in Fluid DynamicsAMS Contemporary Mathematics, Vol. 466, 2008, B-C. Khoo, Z. Li, and P. Ling, Editors.
    3. Special issue of Applied Numerical Mathematics for the International Conference on Scientific Computing, Nanjing, China, June 4 -- June 8, 2005, Vol. 57, issues 5-7, 2007, Z. Li, Y. Song, and T. Tang editors.
    4. Interface Problems and Methods in Biological and Physical FlowsLecture Notes Series,  Vol. 17, IMS, Singapore, World Scientific, 2008, B-C. Khoo, Z. Li, and P. Ling, Editors.
    5. Numerical Analysis and ApplicationsLecure Notes in Computer Sciences, LNCS 3401, Springer, 2005, Z. Li, L. Vulkov, J. Wasniewski, Editors.
    6. Industrial Mathematics, SIAM Publisher, Philadelphia,  ISBN O-89871-467-2, 2000,  P. Gremaud, Z. Li, R. Smith, and H. Tran.

Publications

Errtum of some papers.
 

1.      An augmented method for free boundary problems with moving contact lines, Computers & Fluids, 39 (2010) 1033–1040, Zhilin Li, Ming-Chih Lai, Guowei He, and Hongkai Zhao.

2.      The sensitivity analysis for the flow past obstacles problem with respect to the Reynolds number, K. Ito, Z. Li, and Z. Qiao, Advances in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, in press, 2011.

3.      The IIM in Polar Coordinates and its Application to Electro Capacitance Tomography Problems, Numerical Algorithms, (2011) 57:405–423, DOI 10.1007/s11075-010-9436-3, J. Ruiz Alvarez, J. Chen, Z. Li.

4.      An augmented immersed interface method for moving structures with mass, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B (DCDS-B), 2011, in press, J. Hao, Z. Li, and S. R. Lubkin

5.      A numerical method for solving elasticity equations with sharp-edged interfaces, Commun. Comput. Phys., 2011,  in press, S. Hou, Z. Li, L. Wang, and W. Wang

6.      An Adaptive Mesh Refinement Strategy for Immersed Boundary/Interface Methods, Commun. Comput. Phys.,  in press, 2011, Z. Li and P. Song

7.      Some new finite difference methods for Helmholtz equations on irregular domains or with interfaces, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B (DCDS-B),  in press, 2011, Z. Li, and X. Wan

8.      Analysis and numerical methods for some crack problems, International Journal of Numerical Analysis & Modeling, Series B,  in press, 2011, X.  Feng, Z. Li, and L. Wang.

9.      Adaptive mesh refinement for elliptic interface problems using the non-conforming immersed finite element method, International journal of Numerical Analysis and Modeling, Volume 1, Number 1, Pages -18, 2010, C-T. Wu, Z. Li, and M-C. Lai

10.  High order compact finite difference schemes for the Helmholtz equation with discontinuous coefficients, Journal of Computational Mathematics Vol.29, No.3, 2011, 324-340, X. Feng, Z. Li, Z. Qiao.

11.  New Finite Difference Methods Based on IIM for Inextensible Interfaces in Incompressible FlowsEast Asian Journal of Applied Mathematics Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 155-171, Zhilin Li and Ming-Chih Lai

12.  Immersed Interface Finite Element Methods for Elasticity Interface Problems with Non-homogeneous Jump Conditions, Numer. Math. Theo. Meth. Appl., Vol. 3, 2010, pp. 23-39, Y. Gong and Z. Li.

13.  A well-conditioned augmented system for solving Navier-Stokes equations in irregular domains, J. Comput. Phys. 228, (2009), 2616-2628, doi:10.1016/j.jcp.2008.12.028, K. Ito, M. Lai, and Zhilin Li .

14.  Numerical Study of Surfactant-Laden Drop-Drop Interactions, CiCP, Vol. 10, 2011, No. 2, pp. 453-473,  doi: 10.4208/cicp.090310.020610a,  J. Xu, Z.  Li,  J. Lowengrub, and H.  Zhao.

15.  A finite element method for elasticity interface problems with locally modified triangulations,  International Journal of Numerical Analysis & Modeling, Volume 8, Number 2, Pages 189–200, 2010, H. Xie, Z. Li,  and Z. Qiao

16.  An additive Schwartz preconditioner for the mortar-type rotated Q1 FEM for elliptic problems with discontinuous coefficients, Applied Numerical Mathematics, Vol 59, Issue 7,  2009, Pages 1657-1667, F. Wang, J. Chen, W. Xu, Z. Li.

17.  Achieving energy conservation in Poisson Boltzmann molecular dynamics: Accuracy and precision with finite-difference algorithms, Chemical Physics Letters, Volume 468, Issues 4-6, 22 January 2009, Pages 112-118, Jun Wang, Qin Cai, Zhilin Li, Hong-Kai Zhao,  and Ray Luo.

18.  Correction to: "A comparison of the extended finite element method with the immersed interface method ..."[CAMCoS 1 (2006), 207--228], T. Beale, D. Chopp, R. LeVeque, and Z. Li, Comm. App. Math. Comp. Sci., Vol. 3, 95-100, 2008.

19.  Immersed-Interface Finite-Element Methods for Elliptic Interface Problems with Non-homogeneous Jump Conditions, SIAM J. Numer. Anal., Vol. 46, 472-495, 2008, Y. Gong, B. Li, and Z. Li

20.  Introduction to Immersed Boundary/Interface Method,  Robert Dillion and Zhilin Li,  Lecture Notes Series, Vol. 17, 2009, World Scientific Publisher, ISBN-13-981-283-784-1.

21.  Interface Problems and Methods in Biological Flows, B-C. Khoo, Z. Li, and P. Lin, IMS Lecture Notes Series, Vol. 17, 2009, World Scientific Publisher

22.  A smoothing technique for discrete delta functions with application to immersed boundary method in moving boundary simulations, J. Comput. Phys. Vol. 228, 2009, Pages 7821-7836, X. Yang, X. Zhang, Z. Li, and G. He

23.  An Implicit-forcing Immersed Interface Method for the Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equations, AMS Contemporary Mathematics, Vol. 466, 2008, 73-94, D-V. Le, B-C. Khoo, Z. Li

24.  An Immersed Interface Method for Solving Incompressible Viscous Flows with Piecewise Constant Viscosity Across a Moving Elastic Membrane, J. of Comput. Physics, Vol. 227 Issue 23, p9955-9983, 2008,  Z. Tan, D. V. Le, Z. Li, K. M. Lim, and B. C. Khoo

25.  Mechanics of mesenchymal contribution to clefting force in branching morphogenesis, Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology, Vol. 7, 417-426, 2008,  X. Wan, Z. Li, and S. Lubkin.

26.  An augmented approach for Stokes equations with a discontinuous viscosity and singular forces, Computers and Fluids, Vol. 36, 622-635, 2007, K. Ito, M-C. Lai, and Z. Li

27.  Pressure Jump Conditions for Stokes Equations with Discontinuous Viscosity in 2D and 3D, Methods and Applications of Analysis, Vol. 13, 199-214, 2006, K. Ito,  Z. Li, and X. Wan.

28.  A fast finite difference method for biharmonic equations on  irregular domains, Advances in Comput. Math., on-line, DOI 10.1007/s10444-007-9043-6, Vol. 29, 113-133, 2008, G. Chen, Z. Li, and P. Lin.

29.  Theoretical & numerical analysis for a fluid mixure model of tissue deformation, Q. Jiang, Z. Li, and S. Lubkin., Comm. in Comput. Phy.  Vol. 3, 620-634, 2009.

30.  A finite element method for interface problems with locally modified triangulations, AMS Contemporary Mathematics, Vol. 466, 2008, 179-190, H. Xie, K. Ito, Z. Li, J. Toivanen

31.  A study of numerical methods for the level set approach, Appl.  Numer. Math., 837-846, 2006, P. Gremaud, C. Kuster, and Z. Li

32.  An Explicit Jump Immersed Interface Method for Two-Phase Navier Stokes Equations with Interfaces, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Vol. 197, 2317-2328, 2008, with V. Rutka.

33.  An augmented IIM-level set method for Stokes equations with discontinuous viscosity,  Electron. J. Diff. Eqns., 193-210,2007

34.  A level-set method for interfacial flows with surfactant,  J. of Comput. Physics,  Vol. 212,  590-616, 2006, with  Jian-Jun Xu, John Lowengrub, and Hongkai Zhao.

35.  An augmented approach for the pressure boundary condition in a Stokes flow,  Comm.  in Comp. Physics, Vol. 1, (2006), pp. 874-885., Z. Li, X. Wan, K. Ito and S. R. Lubkin

36.  A Finite Difference Method and Analysis for 2D Nonlinear Poisson–Boltzmann Equations,  Journal of Scientific Computing, 1573-7691 (Online) DOI: 10.1007/s10915-005-9019-y, With C.V. Pao and Z. Qiao.

37.  Immersed finite element for elasticity system with discontinuities,  AMS  Contemporary Mathematics, Vol. 383, pp285-298,  2005, Z. Li and X.Yang.

38.  Augmented Strategies for Interface and Irregular Domain Problems,  in Lecture Notes in Mathematics and Computer Sciences, Springer-Verlag, pp. 66-79, 2005.

39.  The numerical solution of singular integro-differential equations by reduction method using the Faber-Laurent polynomials, Iurie CarausZhilin Li, and V. A. Zolotarevskii, Differential Equations, Vol. 40, No. 12, 2004, pp. 1764-1769.

40.  Interface conditions for stokes equations with discontinuous viscosity and surface sources,  Applied Mathematics Letters ,  Vol. 19, Issue 3,  March 2006, Pages 229-234.

41.  Numerical Analysis and Its Applications, Edited by  Zhilin Li, Lubin Vulkov,  and Jerzy Was'niewski, Lecture Notes in Computer Science,  Springer-Verlag, GmbH, Volume 3401 / 2005, ISBN  3-540-24937-0.

42.  An immersed finite element space and its approximation capability, Numerical Methods of PDEs, Vol. 20,  pp.  338-367, 2004, DOI 10.1002/num.10092, Z. Li. T. Lin, Y. Lin and R. C. Rogers.

43.  Error estimates of an immersed finite element method for interface problems, NCSU CRSC Technical report, CRSC-TR00-07.

44.  Generalized Snell's law for weighted minimal surface, Methods and Applications of Analysis Vol. 10, pp. 199-214, 2003, Z. Li ,  X. Lin, M. Torres,  and H. Zhao.

45.  Three dimensional elliptic solvers for interface problems and applications, J. of Comput. Physics, Vol. 184,  pp. 215-243, 2003, with S. Deng and K. Ito, 2003.

46.  The Immersed Interface Method for Elasticity Problems with Interface, Dynamics of Continuous, Discrete and Impulsive Systems, Part A,  Vol.10, No.5, 783-808 , 2003, with X. Yang and B. Li.

47.  Solving a Nonlinear Interface Problems in Magneto-Rheological Fluids using the Immersed Interface Method.  Journal of Scientific Computing,  Vol. 19, pp. 253-266, 2003,  with K. Ito.

48.  An overview of the immersed interface method and its applications, Taiwanese J. Mathematics, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 1-49, 2003.

49.  Autophobic Spreading of Drops,  J. of Comput. Physics,  Vol. 183, No. 2, pp. 335-366, 2002, with J. K. Hunter, and H. Zhao

50.  New Formulations for Interface Problems in Polar coordinates,  SIAM J. Sci. Comput.,  25, No 1, 224-245, (2003) , with W. Wang, I Chern, and M. Lai

51.  The immersed interface/multigrid methods for interface problems, SIAM J. Sci. Comput.,  Vol. 24,  No.2,  pp. 463 - 479, 2002, with L. Adams.

52.  Force and Deformation on Branching Rudiments: Cleaving Between Hypotheses, Biomechanics and Modeling in mechanobiology, Vol. 1,  pp. 5-16, 2002, with Sharon Lubkin.

53.  A fast finite difference method for solving Navier-Stokes Equations on irregular domains, J. of Commu. in Math.  Sci., Vol. 1,  pp. 180-196, 2003. with C. Wang.

54.  The Level-Set Function Approach to an Inverse Interface Problem, Inverse Problems,  Vol. 17, No. 5, October, 2001, pp. 1225-1242, with K. Ito and K. Kunish.

55.  Maximum Principle Preserving Schemes for Interface Problems with Discontinuous Coefficients, SIAM J. Sci. Comput. 23, No.1, pp. 339-361,  2001, with K. Ito

56.  Immersed Interface Method for the Navier-Stokes Equations with Singular Forces,  J. of Comput. Physics,  171, 822-842 (2001), with M. Lai.

57.  Numerical Analysis of Interfacial 2D Stokes Flow with Discontinuous Viscosity and Variable Surface Tension,  Numerical Methods in Fluids, 37, 525-540, 2001, with S. Lubkin.

58.  A remark on jump conditions for the three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations involving an immersed moving membrane, Applied Math. Letters, 14, pp. 149-154, 2001 with M. Lai.

59.  A Level Set-Boundary Element Method for Simulation of Dynamic Powder Consolidation of Metals, in Numerical Analysis and Its Application, edited by L. Vulkov, J. Wasniewski, and P. Yalamov, Springer-Verlag, pp. 527-534, 2001, with W. Cai

60.  Numerical method for simulation of bubbles flowing through another fluid, in Advances in Scientific Computing, edited by Z-C Shi et. el., Science Press, pp. 86-94, 2001, with Y. Shen.

61.  A Numerical Study of Electro-migration Voiding by Evolving Level Set Functions on a Fixed Cartesian Grid,  J. of Comput. Physics,  152:281-304, 1999, with H. Zhao and H Gao.

62.  New Cartesian grid methods for interface problems using the finite element formulation, Numerische Mathematik96:61-98, 2003,  also, NCSU CRSC-TR99-5, 1999, with T. Lin,  and X. Wu.

63.  A numerical method for solving heat equations involving interfaces, Electron. J. Diff. Eqns., Conf. 03, 1999, pp. 100-108, with Y. Shen.

64.  The immersed finite volume element methods for the elliptic interface problems, Mathematicsand Computers In Simulation, (50)1-4 (1999) pp. 43-61, with R.  E. Ewing, T. Lin,  and Y. Lin

65.  A fast iterative algorithm for elliptic interface problems.  SIAM J. Numer. Anal.  35:230--254, 1998.

66.  The immersed interface method using a finite element formulation. Applied Numer. Math.  27:253--267, 1998.

67.  Convergence analysis of the immersed interface method.  IMA J. Numer. Anal., 19:583-608, 1999, with H. Hunag.

68.  Fast and Accurate Numerical Approaches for Stefan Problems and Crystal Growth. Numerical Heat Transfer,  Part B: Fundamentals,35: 461-484, 1999, with B. Soni

69.  Theoretical and numerical analysis on a thermo-elastic system with discontinuities. J. of Comput. Appl. Math. 91:1--22, 1998, with J. Zou.

70.  Crack jump conditions for elliptic problems, Applied Math. Letters,12(6):81--88,  1999, with A. Wiegmann and R. LeVeque.

71.  An Inverse Problem in a Parabolic Equation,  Electronic Journal of Differential Equations, Conference 01, 1997, pp. 193--199,   Published November 12, 1998,  with K. Zheng

72.  A hybrid method for moving interface problems with application to the Hele-shaw flow,  J. Comput. Phys.  134:236--252, 1997, with  T. Hou,   S. Osher, and  H. Zhao.

73.  A numerical method for diffusive transport with moving boundaries and discontinuous material properties. International J. Numer. & Anal. Method in Geomechanics, 21:653--662, 1997, with D. McTigue, and J. Heine.

74.  Immersed interface method for {S}tokes flow with elastic boundaries or surface tension. SIAM J. Sci. Comput. 18:709--735, 1997, with  R. J. LeVeque.

75.  Immersed interface method for moving interface problems.  Numerical Algorithms, 14:269-293, 1997

76.  A note on immersed interface methods for three dimensional elliptic equations. Computers Math. Appl.  31:9--17, 1996.

77.  Simulation of bubbles in creeping flow using the immersed interface method, in Proc. Sixth International Symposium on Computational Fluid,  pp 688-693, 1995,  with  R. J. LeVeque

78.  The Immersed Interface Method --- A Numerical Approach for Partial Differential Equations with Interfaces, PhD thesis, University of Washington, 1994.

79.  The immersed interface method for elliptic equations with  discontinuous coefficients and singular sources,  SIAM J. Numer. Anal. 31:1019--1044, 1994, with  R. J. LeVeque

80.  Erratum: "The immersed interface method for elliptic equations with discontinuous coefficients and singular sources",  SIAM J. Numer. Anal. 32:1704, 1995, with

81.  ADI methods for heat equations with discontinuties along an arbitrary interface. Proc. Symp. Appl. Math. W. Gautschi, editor,  48,  311--315. AMS, 1993, with A. Mayo

82.  Perturbation theorems of eigenvectors.  Numer. Math., a Journal of Chinese Universities, 12(1990), No.3, pp. 284--289, with K. Huang.

83.  Uniform treatment of linear systems -- algorithm and numerical stability. Numer. Comput. Appl. 2: 71-86, 1989.

84.  A generalized conjugate gradient method for solving real  skew-symmetric systems. J. on Numer. Methods & Comput. Appl., 8(1987), No.4, pp. 31--37.

85.  An equivalent theorem on the numerical stability for an algorithm, Numer. Math., a Journal of Chinese Universities, 9(1987), No. 1,  pp. 59--65,  with K. Huang

86.  Roundoff error analysis for polynomial interpolation.  Research and Review in Mathematics, 1989, No. 2, with K. Huang.

87.  On the relation between the behavior and the distribution of the zeros of a polynomial. J. of Nanjing University, Mathematics. Biquarterly, 2(1985), No. 1, pp. 53--59, with K. Huang.

88.  Optimal conjugate gradient method for solving arbitrary linear equations. J. of Nanjing Normal University. 1988, No. 3, pp. 28--34.

89.  Round-off error analysis for a class of congugate gradient methods with restarting.  J. of Nanjing Normal University. 1986, No. 1, pp. 26--34.

90.  The effect of deflation on the condition number of zeros of polynomials. J. of Nanjing Normal University. 1986, No. 2, pp. 31--37.