Yunchang Seol

Associate Professor, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, Republic of Korea

Mail Address:

Department of Mathematics,

Chonnam National University,

77, Yongbong-ro, Buk-gu, Gwangju, 61186, Republic of Korea

Phone:

(voice) +82-62-530-3334

Research Interests:

• Immersed Boundary Method

• Fluid-Structure Interaction Problems

• Foam, Bubble, Soap Film, Minimal Surface

• Vesicle, Biological Cells

• Surfactant

• Non-Newtonian Fluid

• Mesh Control, Remesh

• Discrete Geometry

• Energy Stable Scheme, Structure-Preserving Scheme

• Graph Neural Networks

Employment:

• 2024 March - present, Associate Professor

Department of Mathematics, Chonnam National University (CNU), Gwangju, Republic of Korea

• 2023 September - 2024 February, Postdoc

Department of Mathematical Sciences, Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Korea (Mentor: Youngjoon Hong)

• 2022 September - 2023 August, Researcher

Department of Mathematics & Institute of Basic Science, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Korea (Mentor: Youngjoon Hong)

• 2021 April - 2022 August, Research Professor

Department of Mathematics, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea (Mentor: Philsu Kim)

• 2017 August - 2021 January, Postdoc

Department of Applied Mathematics, National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan (Mentor: Ming-Chih Lai)

• 2015 February - 2017 July, Postdoc

National Center for Theoretical Sciences, National Taiwan University, Taiwan (Mentor: Ming-Chih Lai)

• 2014 August - 2015 January, Postdoc

National Center for Theoretical Sciences, National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan (Mentor: Ming-Chih Lai)

Education:

• Ph.D Mathematics (Mar. 2009 - Aug. 2014) Chung-Ang University (Advisor: Yongsam Kim)

• M.S Mathematics (Mar. 2007 - Feb. 2009) Chung-Ang University

• B.E Computer Science and Engineering  (Mar. 2001 - Feb. 2007) Chung-Ang University

Publications

1. Yunchang Seol, Suho Kim, Minwoo Jung, and Youngjoon Hong, A novel physics-aware graph networks using high-order numerical methods in weather forecasting model, Knowl.-Based Syst., In revision, 2024.

2. Sangbeom Park, Soyoon Bak, Philsu Kim, and Yunchang Seol, A semi-implicit semi-Lagrangian method for simulating immersed boundary motion under high inertia and elasticity, Appl. Math. Comput., Vol. 459, 128269, Dec/15/2023.

3. Kian Chuan Ong, Yunchang Seol, and Ming-Chih Lai, An immersed boundary projection method for solving the fluid-rigid body interaction problems, J. Comput. Phys., Vol. 466, 111367, Oct/01/2022.

4. Ming-Chih Lai, Sangbeom Park, and Yunchang Seol, An energy stable finite difference method for anisotropic surface diffusion on closed curves, Appl. Math. Lett., Vol. 127, 107848, May/2022.

5. Ming-Chih Lai and Yunchang Seol, A stable and accurate immersed boundary method for simulating vesicle dynamics via spherical harmonics, J. Comput. Phys., Vol. 449, 110785, Jan/15/2022.

6. Dokyum Kim, Yunchang Seol, Yongsam Kim, Numerical study on rheology of two-dimensional dry foam, Phys. Fluids, Vol. 33, 052111, May/15/2021.

7. Kian Chuan Ong, Ming-Chih Lai, and Yunchang Seol, An immersed boundary projection method for incompressible interface simulations in 3D flows, J. Comput. Phys., Vol. 430, 110090, April/01/2021.

8. Yunchang Seol and Ming-Chih Lai, Spectrally accurate algorithm for points redistribution on closed curves, SIAM J. Sci. Comput., 42(5), pp. A3030-A3054, Oct/01/2020.

9. Yunchang Seol, Yu-Hau Tseng, Yongsam Kim, and Ming-Chih Lai, An immersed boundary method for simulating Newtonian vesicles in viscoelastic fluid, J. Comput. Phys., Vol. 376, pp. 1009-1027, Jan/01/2019.

10. Yunchang Seol and Yongsam Kim, Numerical study on statistical behaviors of two-dimensional dry foam, Commun. Comput. Phys., Vol. 25, pp. 289-310, Jan/2019.

11. Yongsam Kim, Ming-Chih Lai, and Yunchang Seol, A penalty immersed boundary method for viscoelastic particulate flows, J. Non-Newtonian Fluid Mech., Vol. 258, pp. 32-44, Aug/2018.

12. Yunchang Seol, Shih-Hsuan Hsu, and Ming-Chih Lai, An immersed boundary method for simulating interfacial flows with insoluble surfactant in three dimensions, Commun. Comput. Phys., Vol. 23 (3), pp. 640-664, Mar/2018.

13. Yongsam Kim, Ming-Chih Lai, and Yunchang Seol, Simulation of a soap film Mobius strip transformation, East Asian J. Appl. Math., Vol. 7 (3), pp. 615-628, Aug/2017.

14. Yongsam Kim, Ming-Chih Lai, and Yunchang Seol, Numerical simulations of vesicle and bubble dynamics in two-dimensional four-roll mill flows, Phys. Rev. E, Vol. 95, pp. 053105, May/10/2017.

15. Ming-Chih Lai and Yunchang Seol, A short note on Navier-Stokes flows with an incompressible interface and its approximations, Appl. Math. Lett., Vol. 65, pp. 1-6, Mar/2017.

16. Yunchang Seol, Wei-Fan Hu, Yongsam Kim, and Ming-Chih Lai,  An immersed boundary method for simulating vesicle dynamics in three dimensions, J. Comput. Phys., Vol. 322, pp. 125-141, Oct/01/2016.

17. Wei-Fan Hu, Ming-Chih Lai, Yunchang Seol, and Yuan-Nan Young, Vesicle electrohydrodynamic simulations by coupling immersed boundary and immersed interface method, J. Comput. Phys., Vol. 317, pp. 66-81, July/15/2016.

18. Yongsam Kim, Ming-Chih Lai, Charles S. Peskin, and Yunchang Seol, Numerical simulations of three-dimensional foam by the immersed boundary method, J. Comput. Phys., Vol. 269, pp. 1-21, July/15/2014.

19. Yongsam Kim and Yunchang Seol, Numerical simulations of two-dimensional wet foam by the immersed boundary method, Computers & Structures, Vol. 122, pp. 259-269, June/2013.

20. Yongsam Kim, Yunchang Seol, Ming-Chih Lai, and Charles S. Peskin, The Immersed Boundary Method for Two-Dimensional Foam with Topological Changes, Commun. Comput. Phys., Vol. 12, pp. 479-493, Aug/2012.

Dissertation (Ph.D.): Immersed boundary method for foam dynamics in an incompressible viscous fluid, Chung-Ang University, 2014.

Thesis (M.Sc.): Multiplicative Sobolev Inequalities, Chuang-Ang University, 2009.

Research Grants

• Chonnam National University BK21 Industry Bigdata Convergence Education-Research Group, September/09/2020 - August/31/2027,
  (Participating March/01/2024 - present)

• National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) (2022R1I1A1A01054188),
  Project Title: Nonuniform Fourier transform-based spectral methods for solving multiphase fluid-structure interaction problems,
  June/01/2022 - May/31/2025, Total Funding: 210,000,000 Won

Journal Reviewer

• Communications in Computational Physics

• Journal of Biological Systems

• Kyungpook Mathematical Journal

• Physics of Fluids

• SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing

Conferences

Upcoming Conferences

- April 18-20 (2024), 2024 KMS Spring Conference, KAIST & DCC, Daejeon, Korea. (Invited talk)

- May 17-19 (2024), 2024 KSIAM Spring Conference, Global Plaza, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea.

- May 30-31 (2024), 2024 KSCFE Spring Conference,  Sonokam Jeju, Jeju Island, Korea.

- June 30-July 05 (2024), KSMB-SMB 2024 Joint annual meeting of the Korean Society for Mathematical Biology and the Society for Mathematical Biology, KonKun University, Seoul, Korea. (Invited talk)

Past Conferences

- January 15-17 (2024), 2023 Winter International Conference on Mathematics and Its Applications, Supported by Math BK 2021 Project Four in Chungnam National University, Korea. (Online) (Invited talk)

- January 22-24 (2024), 2023 Winter Workshop on PDE and Applied Mathematics, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea. (Organizer)

- November 02-05 (2023), 2023 KSIAM Annual Meeting, Kimdaejung Convention Center, Gwangju, Korea. (Contributed talk)

- August 20-25 (2023), 10th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM 2023 TOKYO), Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan. (Invited talk)

- June 27-July 01 (2023), The 8th CIJK Conference on Mathematical and Theoretical Biology, Sono Belle Jeju, Jeju Island, Korea. (Invited talk)

- May 19-21 (2023), 2023 KSIAM Spring Conference, Alpensia, Pyeong Chang, Korea. (Invited talk)

- April 27-29 (2023), 2023 Korean Mathematical Society (KMS) Spring Meeting, Daejeon Convention Center, Daejeon, Korea. (Contributed talk)

- February 26-March 3 (2023), SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE23), RAI Congress Centre, Amsterdam, Netherlands. (Contributed talk)

- June 24-26 (2022), 2022 Annual Conference of Korean Society for Mathematical Biology, Yeosu Venizia Hotel & Resort, Yeosu, Korea. (Invited talk)

- October 21-22 (2021), KNU-UNIST Joint Workshop on Applied Mathematics and PDE, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea. (Invited talk)

- July 15-16 (2019), CoMFoS19: Mathematical Aspects of Continuum Mechanics, Kanazawa, Japan. (Invited talk)

- July 5-9 (2018), The 12th AIMS Conference on Dynamical Systems, Differential Equations and Applications, Taipei, Taiwan. (Invited talk)

- December 18-19 (2016), 2016 NCTS Workshop on Complex and Biological fluid dynamics with applications, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. (Invited talk)

- July 24-29 (2016), The 12th World Congress on Computational Mechanics, Computational Methods for Fluid-Structure Interactions, Seoul, Korea. (Invited talk)

- May 30-June 3 (2016), International Workshop on Fluid Structure Interaction Problems, National University of Singapore, Singapore. (Invited talk)

- December 08-12 (2014), The 5th International Conference on Scientific Computing and Partial Differential Equations, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong. (Invited talk)

- May 23-24 (2014), KSIAM 2014 Spring Conference, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea. (Contributed talk)

- September 30 (2013), National Institute of Supercomputing and Networking (NISN), El tower, Seoul, Korea.

- July 8-11 (2012), EUFOAM 2012 Conference, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa, Portugal. (Poster)

- May 18-19 (2012), KSIAM 2012 Spring Conference, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea. (Poster)

- November 25-27 (2011), KSIAM 2011 Annual Meeting, KAL Hotel, Seogwipo, Jeju, Korea. (Poster)

- August 9-13 (2010), Workshop on fluid motion driven by immersed structures, Fields Institute, University of Toronto, Canada. (Poster)

- May 15 (2006), 4th Chung-Ang Invention Contest, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, South Korea.