Fan Zhang

Postdoctoral Fellow - Rosseland Centre for Solar Physics
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Email fan.zhang@astro.uio.no
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Visiting address Sem Sælands vei 13 0371 Oslo
Postal address Postboks 1029 0315 Oslo

Academic Interests

Fan's primary academic interest is to develop numerical techniques for modeling multi-scale fluid & plasma dynamics that are typically described by nonlinear hyperbolic partial differential equations. He has mainly contributed to the development of shock-capturing numerical methods and solar atmospheric modeling. In particular, he is now striving to improve the modeling of the solar atmosphere, by (1) further exploring fundamental dynamics in the lower solar atmosphere, and (2) using advanced numerical techniques such as model order reduction and uncertainty quantification.

Employment

  • 08/2023-present Postdoctoral Fellow, at Rosseland Centre for Solar Physics, Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Oslo.
  • 08/2019-07/2023 Postdoctoral Fellow, at Centre for mathematical Plasma-Astrophysics, Department of Mathematics, KU Leuven.
  • 03/2018-01/2020 Postdoctoral Researcher, at School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Sun Yat-sen University.

Teaching Assistant

  • Space Weather for Master of Science, KU Leuven. Spring, 2020-2023.
  • Research Projects in Theoretical Astrophysics for Master of Astronomy and Astrophysics, KU Leuven. Spring, 2020.

Background

Fan obtained his Ph.D. degree in computational mechanics from the Dalian University of Technology, where he worked at an interdisciplinary group across the Department of Engineering Mechanics and School of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Then, he carried out postdoctoral research at Sun Yat-sen University and KU Leuven successively, while having extended his academic interests to MHD modeling and solar physics.

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Tags: Solar Physics, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Computational Astrophysics, Numerical Analysis

Publications

  • Zhang, Fan (2024). Improving the quantification of overshooting shock-capturing oscillations. Progress in Computational Fluid Dynamics, An International Journal (CFD). ISSN 1468-4349. 24(3), p. 135–142. doi: 10.1504/PCFD.2024.138236. Full text in Research Archive
  • Kraśkiewicz, Jerzy; Murawski, Kris; Zhang, Fan & Poedts, Stefaan (2023). Monochromatic Two-Fluid Alfvén Waves in the Partially Ionised Solar Chromosphere. Solar Physics. ISSN 0038-0938. 298(1). doi: 10.1007/s11207-022-02095-1.
  • Wei, Yan-Xin; Zhang, Fan; Liu, Jun; Su, Hong-xing & Xu, Chun-guang (2023). A constrained boundary gradient reconstruction method for unstructured finite volume discretization of the Euler equations. Computers & Fluids. ISSN 0045-7930. 252. doi: 10.1016/j.compfluid.2022.105774.
  • Perri, Barbara; Kuźma, Błażej; Brchnelova, Michaela; Baratashvili, Tinatin; Zhang, Fan & Leitner, Peter [Show all 8 contributors for this article] (2023). COCONUT, a Novel Fast-converging MHD Model for Solar Corona Simulations. II. Assessing the Impact of the Input Magnetic Map on Space-weather Forecasting at Minimum of Activity. The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ). ISSN 0004-637X. 943(2). doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac9799.
  • Kuźma, Błażej; Brchnelova, Michaela; Perri, Barbara; Baratashvili, Tinatin; Zhang, Fan & Lani, Andrea [Show all 7 contributors for this article] (2023). COCONUT, a Novel Fast-converging MHD Model for Solar Corona Simulations. III. Impact of the Preprocessing of the Magnetic Map on the Modeling of the Solar Cycle Activity and Comparison with Observations. The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ). ISSN 0004-637X. 942(1). doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/aca483.
  • Brchnelova, Michaela; Kuźma, Błażej; Zhang, Fan; Lani, Andrea & Poedts, Stefaan (2023). The role of plasma β in global coronal models: Bringing balance back to the force. Astronomy and Astrophysics (A & A). ISSN 0004-6361. 676. doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/202346788.
  • Brchnelova, Michaela; Kuźma, Błażej; Zhang, Fan; Lani, Andrea & Poedts, Stefaan (2023). COCONUT-MF: Two-fluid ion-neutral global coronal modelling. Astronomy and Astrophysics (A & A). ISSN 0004-6361. 678. doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/202346525.
  • Chen, Zedong; Zhang, Fan; Liu, Jun & Chen, Biaosong (2022). A vertex-based reconstruction for cell-centered finite-volume discretization on unstructured grids. Journal of Computational Physics. ISSN 0021-9991. 451. doi: 10.1016/j.jcp.2021.110827.
  • Brchnelova, Michaela; Zhang, Fan; Leitner, Peter; Perri, Barbara; Lani, Andrea & Poedts, Stefaan (2022). Effects of mesh topology on MHD solution features in coronal simulations. Journal of Plasma Physics. ISSN 0022-3778. 88. doi: 10.1017/S0022377822000241.
  • Perri, Barbara; Leitner, Peter; Brchnelova, Michaela; Baratashvili, Tinatin; Kuźma, Błażej & Zhang, Fan [Show all 8 contributors for this article] (2022). COCONUT, a Novel Fast-converging MHD Model for Solar Corona Simulations: I. Benchmarking and Optimization of Polytropic Solutions. The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ). ISSN 0004-637X. 936(1). doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac7237.
  • Xu, Chunguang; Zhang, Fan; Dong, Haibo & Jiang, Hang (2021). Arbitrary high-order extended essentially non-oscillatory schemes for hyperbolic conservation laws. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids. ISSN 0271-2091. 93(7), p. 2136–2154. doi: 10.1002/fld.4968.
  • Zhang, Fan; Poedts, Stefaan; Lani, Andrea; Kuźma, Błażej & Murawski, Kris (2021). Two-fluid Modeling of Acoustic Wave Propagation in Gravitationally Stratified Isothermal Media. The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ). ISSN 0004-637X. 911(2). doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/abe7e8.
  • Zhang, Huaibao & Zhang, Fan (2021). On the numerical overshoots of shock-capturing schemes. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids. ISSN 0271-2091. 93(10), p. 3151–3159. doi: 10.1002/fld.5023.
  • Zhang, Huaibao; Wang, Guangxue & Zhang, Fan (2020). A multi-resolution weighted compact nonlinear scheme for hyperbolic conservation laws. International journal of computational fluid dynamics (Print). ISSN 1061-8562. 34(3), p. 187–203. doi: 10.1080/10618562.2020.1722807.
  • Tian, Zhuangzhuang; Wang, Guangxue; Zhang, Fan & Zhang, Huaibao (2020). A third-order compact nonlinear scheme for compressible flow simulations. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids. ISSN 0271-2091. 92(10), p. 1352–1367. doi: 10.1002/fld.4831.
  • Zhang, Huaibao; Zhang, Fan; Liu, Jun; McDonough, J. M. & Xu, Chunguang (2020). A simple extended compact nonlinear scheme with adaptive dissipation control. Communications in nonlinear science & numerical simulation. ISSN 1007-5704. 84. doi: 10.1016/j.cnsns.2020.105191.
  • Chen, Zedong; Zhang, Fan; Liu, Jun & Chen, Biaosong (2020). An iterative near-boundary reconstruction strategy for unstructured finite volume method. Journal of Computational Physics. ISSN 0021-9991. 418. doi: 10.1016/j.jcp.2020.109621.
  • Zhang, Huaibao; Zhang, Fan & Xu, Chunguang (2019). Towards optimal high-order compact schemes for simulating compressible flows. Applied Mathematics and Computation. ISSN 0096-3003. 355, p. 221–237. doi: 10.1016/j.amc.2019.03.001.
  • Dong, Haibo; Fu, Lin; Zhang, Fan; Liu, Yu & Liu, Jun (2019). Detonation Simulations with a Fifth-Order TENO Scheme. Communications in Computational Physics. ISSN 1815-2406. 25(5), p. 1357–1393. doi: 10.4208/cicp.OA-2018-0008.
  • Zhang, Fan; Liu, Jun & Chen, Biaosong (2018). Modified multi-dimensional limiting process with enhanced shock stability on unstructured grids. Computers & Fluids. ISSN 0045-7930. 161, p. 171–188. doi: 10.1016/j.compfluid.2017.11.019.
  • Dong, Haibo; Zhang, Fan; Xu, Chunguang & Liu, Jun (2018). An improved uncoupled finite volume solver for simulating unsteady shock-induced combustion. Computers & Fluids. ISSN 0045-7930. 167, p. 146–157. doi: 10.1016/j.compfluid.2018.03.001.
  • Dong, Haibo; Liu, Jun; Chen, Zedong & Zhang, Fan (2018). Numerical Investigation of Lateral Jet with Supersonic Reacting Flow. Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets. ISSN 0022-4650. 55(4), p. 928–935. doi: 10.2514/1.A34096.
  • Zhang, Fan; Liu, Jun; Chen, Biaosong & Zhong, Wanxie (2017). A robust low-dissipation AUSM-family scheme for numerical shock stability on unstructured grids. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids. ISSN 0271-2091. 84(3), p. 135–151. doi: 10.1002/fld.4341.
  • Zhang, Fan; Liu, Jun; Chen, Biaosong & Zhong, Wanxie (2016). Evaluation of rotated upwind schemes for contact discontinuity and strong shock. Computers & Fluids. ISSN 0045-7930. 134-135, p. 11–22. doi: 10.1016/j.compfluid.2016.05.010.

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