Speaker: Jinzi Mac Huang (NYU Shanghai)
Time: 2025-11-13 11:00-12:00
Location: 1710, SIMIS
Zoom Meeting ID:844 0594 7424 Passcode:076895
Abstract: Heavy fluid sinks while light fluid rises, leading to the fundamental fluid motion known as natural convection. With the gravity of our planet and the light of the Sun, natural convection brings motion to an otherwise stagnant world, so wind changes the seasons and water shapes rocks into spectacular geoformations. In this talk, we examine the mathematics behind the onset, development, and large-scale circulations of natural convection, and investigate their roles in moving boundary problems that involve dissolution and melting. Such moving boundary problems are significant in the study of geomorphologies, and we will demonstrate one such example that mathematically explains the development of karst pinnacles and experimentally recovers the formation of stoneforests – a geoformation found in southeast Asia that takes millions of years to develop.
About Speaker: Professor Jinzi Mac Huang is a researcher, specializing in Fluid Dynamics, Geophysics, Soft Matter Physics, and Applied Mathematics. After completing his PhD at the the Courant Institute, Professor Mac Huang took a Postdoctoral position at the University of California at San Diego. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor at NYU Shanghai.
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