Cheng-Hao (Michael) Wu
2009, B.S. (Physics), Department of Physics, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Structures of water cluster
Genetic Algorithm
I accomplished my B.S. degree in Physics at National Cheng Kung University. During the forth year, I had a project about thermal conductivity of carbon nanotube via molecular dynamics simulation. By doing the project, I learned in general how to research and some basic methods of computational science. After military service, I work as a research assistant in Institute of Atomic and Molecular Science, Academia Sinica in Taiwan. Currently, I am striving on investigating properties of water cluster by various methods. Genetic Algorithm is used to search structures of water cluster at very low temperature; Parallel tempering, Harmonic Superposition Approximation, and Wang-Landau Sampling are used to estimate thermal properties of water cluster such as density of states and structures at corresponding temperature. More specifically, my aim is to find effective and efficient methods to investigate properties of large water clusters which number of water molecules is up to 100.
Publication
Osbert Zheng Tan, K. H. Tsai, Michael C. H. Wu, and Jer-Lai Kuo, "Structural and Dynamic Properties of Water on the GaN Polar Surface, J. Phys. Chem. C 115, 22444 (2011) link pdf
Osbert Zheng Tan, Michael C. H. Wu, Viorel Chihaia and Jer-Lai Kuo, "Physisorption Structure of Water on the GaN Polar Surface: Force Field Development and Molecular Dynamics Simulations, J. Phys. Chem. C 115, 11684 (2011) link pdf
Current Position
Ph.D student at Univerisyt of Pittsburgh