Curriculum Vitae CV

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

image alt text C. Z., David Saintillan, Albert Chern

Stokes flow of an evolving fluid film with arbitrary shape and topology

Journal of Fluid Mechanics		 doi
Arxiv
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image alt text C. Z., David Saintillan, Albert Chern

Active nematic fluids on Riemannian 2-manifolds

Proceedings of the Royal Society A (to appear)		 Arxiv
Repo
Talk
image alt text 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