Curriculum Vitae 
My first name is CunCheng (存诚), or in short, Cheng (诚), and last name is Zhu (朱).
Education
- University of California, San Diego
- PhD, Engineering with Specialization in Computational Science, 2019-ongoing
- MS, Engineering Physics (in conjunction with the PhD program), 2019-2021
- BS, Mechanical Engineering, 2015-2019
- Shenzhen Middle School, China
Selected Publications
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C. Z., David Saintillan, Albert Chern Stokes flow of an evolving fluid film with arbitrary shape and topology Journal of Fluid Mechanics |
doi Arxiv Repo |
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C. Z., David Saintillan, Albert Chern Active nematic fluids on Riemannian 2-manifolds Proceedings of the Royal Society A (to appear) |
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C. Z., Christopher T. Lee, Padmini Rangamani Mem3DG: Modeling Membrane Mechanochemical Dynamics in 3D using Discrete Differential Geometry Biophysical Reports (Cover of Sep 14, 2022 issue) |
doi Blog Arxiv Biorxiv Repo |
Presentations
- Viscous flow of evolving film with arbitrary geometry and topology at 2025 SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE25), Section of Geometric Mechanics
- Viscous flow of evolving film with arbitrary geometry and topology at the 16th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM)/4th Pan American Congress on Computational Mechanics (PANACM), Section of Geometric Mechanics
- Active nematic fluids on Riemannian 2-manifolds at Southern California Applied Mathematics Symposium 2024, UCSD
- Viscous flow of evolving film with arbitrary geometry and topology at Southern California Flow Physics Symposium (SoCal Fluids) XVII 2024, UCI
- Dynamics of active nematic fluids on arbitrary manifolds: exploring the role of geometry and topology at Mechanics of Life II workshop hosted by Center for Computational Biology, Flatiron Institute
- Dynamics of active nematic fluids on arbitrary manifolds: exploring the role of geometry and topology at APS DFD 76th Annual Meeting
- Hydrodynamics of active nematics on curved stationary and deformable surface at Southern California Flow Physics Symposium (SoCal Fluids) XVI 2023, SDSU
- Mem3DG: Modeling Membrane Mechanochemical Dynamics in 3D using Discrete Differential Geometry at Poster session at Research Expo 2022, Jacobs School of Engineering, UCSD
- Mem3DG: Modeling Membrane Mechanochemical Dynamics in 3D using Discrete Differential Geometry at Allen Institute for Cell Science
- Mem3DG: Modeling Membrane Mechanochemical Dynamics in 3D using Discrete Differential Geometry at Biophysical Society 2022 poster session