Project description: Dr. Qingshan Chen works on the analysis and computation of large scale geophysical flows, with applications in weather and climate modeling. Specific research areas include analysis of geophysical fluid models; development and implementation of advanced numerical methods; development and validation of geophysical models.

Expected background: Desired qualifications of potential students include, first and foremost, a love for the aforementioned applications, and experience with FORTRAN, C, and/or Python programming.

Project faculty:
Prof. Qingshan Chen
Email: qsc at clemson.edu (change "at" to "@")
Office hours: TBA
Bio: Qingshan Chen is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at Clemson University. He obtained a Ph.D. in applied mathematics from Indiana University in 2009, under the supervision of Professor Roger Temam. He spent two years at FSU, working with Professor Max Gunzburger on regional climate modeling. Afterwards, he spent two years at the Los Alamos National Lab, working with Dr. Todd Ringler and the COSIM group on ocean and climate modeling. In 2013, he joined the computational math group at Clemson University.