
Changhui Tan
I am a postdoctoral research associate in CSCAMM and Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland.
ACM Seminar Schedule
Regular seminar talk time and location: Fridays 2:30pm-3:30pm @ LeConte 440.
2024 and After
Please see HERE for the schedule.
Fall 2023
Spring 2023
Fall 2022
September 30 | Zhilin Li (North Carolina State University) | Host: Qi Wang |
(Postponed to October 7) | Title: An Overview of Augmented Strategy and Applications [Virtual] | |
October 21 | Jianliang Qian (Michigan State University) | Host: Lili Ju |
Title: Hadamard-Babich Ansatz for Point-source Maxwell's Equations [Virtual] | ||
October 28 | Federico Pasqualotto (Duke University) | Host: Siming He |
LeConte 205 | Title: On the Construction of 3D Incompressible Euler Equilibria by Magnetic Relaxation [In Person] | |
November 11 | Amir Sagiv (Columbia University) | Host: Wolfgang Dahmen |
Title: A Measure Perspective on Uncertainty Quantification [Virtual] | ||
November 18 | Jing An (Duke University) | Host: Siming He |
LeConte 205 | Title: Quantitative Steepness, Semi-FKPP Reactions, and Pushmi-pullyu Fronts [In Person] | |
December 2 | Pierre-Emmanuel Jabin (Pennsylvania State University) | Host: Changhui Tan |
Title: A New Approach to the Mean-field Limit of Vlasov-Fokker-Planck Equations [Virtual] |
Spring 2022
February 18 | Jiahong Wu (Oklahoma State University) | Host: Changhui Tan |
Title: Stabilizing Phenomenon for Incompressible Fluids | ||
March 4 | Ming Chen (University of Pittsburgh) | Host: Changhui Tan |
Title: Orbital Stability for Internal Waves | ||
March 11 | Spring Break | |
March 18 | SIAM Conference on Analysis of Partial Differential Equations | |
March 25 | Qingtian Zhang (West Virginia University) | Host: Changhui Tan |
Title: Global Solutions of Quasi-geostrophic Shallow Water Front Problems | ||
April 8 | Joint Math Meeting | |
April 15 | Guowei Wei (Michigan State University) | Host: Qi Wang |
Title: How Math and AI are Revolutionizing Biosciences | ||
April 22 | Ziad Musslimani (Florida State University) | Host: Qi Wang |
Title: Spectral Renormalizations Methods in Physics |
Fall 2021
Spring 2021
Fall 2020
Spring 2020
January 17 | Yuanwei Qi (University of Central Florida) | Host: Changhui Tan |
Title: Traveling Wave of Gray-Scott System: Results and Perspective | ||
January 31 | Xiangcheng Zheng (University of South Carolina) | Math Graduate Student |
Title: Mathematical and numerical analysis to variable-order mobile-immobile time-fractional diffusion equations | ||
February 21 | Hailiang Liu (Iowa State University) | Host: Changhui Tan |
Title: Efficient, positive, and energy stable schemes for Poisson-Nernst-Planck systems | ||
March 20 | Xiaolin Li (Stony Brook University) | Host: Xinfeng Liu |
(Cancelled) | Title: Lagrangian Front Tracking and Applications to Conservation Law, Fluid Mixing, and Phase Transition Problems | |
March 27 | Rihui Lan (University of Nevada, Las Vegas) | Host: Lili Ju |
(Postponed) | Title: The Monolithic Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) Finite Element Analysis of Moving Interface Problems |
2019 and before
The schedule can be found HERE and HERE.
MacOS change keychain password
In the MacOS system, the keychain password has to match the user password in order to use keychain appropriately. In my case, they have to match in order to allow Apple Watch to unlock the Mac.
The official way to change the keychain password can be found HERE. However, in my case, the "Change password for keychain login" option is in gray and can not be selected. One solution is the following:
Open terminal and type in
security set-keychain-password
Then, type in old password and then new password. The password is then changed. This does not require admin access.
A sharp critical threshold for a traffic flow model with look-ahead dynamics
Yongki Lee, and Changhui Tan
Communications in Mathematical Sciences, Volume 20, No. 4, pp. 1151-1172 (2022).
Abstract
We study a Lighthill-Whitham-Richards (LWR) type traffic flow model, with a nonlocal look-ahead interaction that has a slow-down effect depending on the traffic ahead. We show a sharp critical threshold condition on the initial data that distinguishes global smooth solutions and finite- time wave breakdown. It is well-known that the LWR model leads to a finite-time shock formation, representing the creation of traffic jams, for generic smooth initial data with finite mass. Our result shows that the nonlocal slowdown effect can help to prevent shock formations, for a class of subcritical initial data.
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doi:10.4310/CMS.2022.v20.n4.a9 |
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This work is supported by NSF grants DMS #1853001 and DMS #2108264 |
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This work is supported by a UofSC VPR ASPIRE I grant |
On the Euler-alignment system with weakly singular communication weights
Changhui Tan
Nonlinearity, Volume 33, No 4, pp. 1907-1924 (2020).
Abstract
We study the pressureless Euler equations with nonlocal alignment interactions, which arises as a macroscopic representation of the Cucker–Smale model on animal flocks. For the Euler-alignment system with bounded interactions, a critical threshold phenomenon is proved in Tadmor and Tan (2014 Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 372 20130401), where global regularity depends on initial data. With strongly singular interactions, global regularity is obtained in Do et al (2018 Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal. 228 1–37), for all initial data. We consider the remaining case when the interaction is weakly singular. We show a critical threshold, similar to the system with bounded interaction. However, different global behaviors may happen for critical initial data, which reveals the unique structure of the weakly singular alignment operator.
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doi:10.1088/1361-6544/ab6c39 |
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This work is supported by NSF grant DMS #1853001 |
Honors and Awards
2013-2014 | Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowship |
SIAM Student Travel Award | |
AMS Graduate Student Travel Grant | |
Kaplan Travel Grant | |
2011-2012 | Mark E. Lachtman Graduate Student Award |
Jacob K. Goldhaber Travel Award | |
2010-2011 | Kaplan Travel Grant |
2008-2010 | Graduate Fellowship in University of Maryland |
2007-2008 | First Honor Graduates in Beijing |
"Outstanding University Graduates" in Peking University | |
2006-2007 | Triple-Good Student in Peking University |
Chinese Economical Research Scholarship | |
2005-2006 | Triple-Good Student in Peking University |
Baogang Scholarship | |
2004-2005 | Triple-Good Student in Peking University |
Guanghua Scholarship |
Conference, Workshops and Seminars
2025
2024
2023
2022
2021
2021.10.8 | PIMS-SFU Computational Math Seminar, Simon Fraser University. |
Talk: The flow of polynomial roots under differentiation. | |
2021.5.4 | PDE/Analysis Seminar, BICRM, Peking University. |
Talk: Eulerian dynamics in multi-dimensions with radial symmetry. | |
2021.4.19 | Analysis and Applied Mathematics Seminar, University of Illinois Chicago. |
Talk: The flow of polynomial roots under differentiation. | |
2021.3.30 | Applied Math & Analysis Seminar, Duke University. |
Talk: Nonlocal traffic flow models and the prevention of traffic jams. | |
2021.3.26 | Zu Chongzhi Colloquium, Duke Kunshan University. |
Talk: The flow of polynomial roots under differentiation. |
2020
2020.11.19 | INS Seminar, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. |
Talk: Nonlocal traffic flow models and the prevention of traffic jams. | |
2020.10.28 | Mathematics Colloquium, Old Dominion University. |
Talk: Self-organized dynamics: aggregation and flocking. | |
2020.9.28 | CAM Seminar, Iowa State University. |
Talk: Nonlocal traffic flow models. |
2019
2018
2017
Singularity formation for a fluid mechanics model with nonlocal velocity
Changhui Tan
Communications in Mathematical Sciences, Volume 17, No 7, pp. 1779-1794 (2019).
Abstract
We study a 1D fluid mechanics model with nonlocal velocity. The equation can be viewed as a fractional porous medium flow, a 1D model of quasi-geostrophic equation, and also a special case of the Euler alignment system. For strictly positive smooth initial data, global regularity has been proved in [Do, Kiselev, Ryzhik and Tan, Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal., 228(1):1–37, 2018]. We construct a family of non-negative smooth initial data so that solution is not \(C^1\)-uniformly bounded. Our result indicates that strict positivity is a critical condition to ensure global regularity of the system. We also extend our construction to the corresponding models in multi-dimensions.
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doi:10.4310/CMS.2019.v17.n7.a2 |
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This work is supported by NSF grant DMS #1853001 |
Global regularity for 1D Eulerian dynamics with singular interaction forces
Alexander Kiselev, and Changhui Tan
SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis, Volume 50, No 6, pp. 6208–6229 (2018).
Abstract
The Euler–Poisson-alignment (EPA) system appears in mathematical biology and is used to model, in a hydrodynamic limit, a set of agents interacting through mutual attrac- tion/repulsion as well as alignment forces. We consider one-dimensional EPA system with a class of singular alignment terms as well as natural attraction/repulsion terms. The singularity of the alignment kernel produces an interesting effect regularizing the solutions of the equation and leading to global regularity for wide range of initial data. This was recently observed in [Do et al., Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal., 228 (2018), pp. 1–37]. Our goal in this paper is to generalize the result and to incorporate the attractive/repulsive potential. We prove that global regularity persists for these more general models.
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doi:10.1137/17M1141515 |
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This work is supported by NSF grant DMS #1853001 |
An asymptotic preserving scheme for kinetic models with singular limit
Alina Chertock, Changhui Tan, and Bokai Yan
Kinetic and Related Models, Volume 11, No 4, pp. 735-756 (2018).
Abstract
We propose a new class of asymptotic preserving schemes to solve kinetic equations with mono-kinetic singular limit. The main idea to deal with the singularity is to transform the equations by appropriate scalings in velocity. In particular, we study two biologically related kinetic systems. We derive the scaling factors, and prove that the rescaled solution does not have a singular limit, under appropriate spatial non-oscillatory assumptions, which can be verified numerically by a newly developed asymptotic preserving scheme. We set up a few numerical experiments to demonstrate the accuracy, stability, efficiency and asymptotic preserving property of the schemes.
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doi:10.3934/krm.2018030 |
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Global regularity for the fractional Euler alignment system
Tam Do, Alexander Kiselev, Lenya Ryzhik, and Changhui Tan
Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, Volume 228, No 1, pp. 1-37 (2018).
Abstract
We study a pressureless Euler system with a non-linear density-dependent alignment term, originating in the Cucker–Smale swarming models. The alignment term is dissipative in the sense that it tends to equilibrate the velocities. Its density dependence is natural: the alignment rate increases in the areas of high density due to species discomfort. The diffusive term has the order of a fractional Laplacian \((-\partial_{xx})^{\alpha/2}, \alpha\in(0,1)\). The corresponding Burgers equation with a linear dissipation of this type develops shocks in a finite time. We show that the alignment nonlinearity enhances the dissipation, and the solutions are globally regular for all \(\alpha\in(0,1)\). To the best of our knowledge, this is the first example of such regularization due to the non-local nonlinear modulation of dissipation.
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doi:10.1007/s00205-017-1184-2 |
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