E-mail : lujia.yu@connect.polyu.hk

Academic qualifications

• Ph.D. Candidate in Geotechnical Engineering, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2019 - now
• Bachelor in Civil Engineering, Zhejiang University, 2011 - 2015

Professional experience (Industry)

• Assistant Engineer, China Energy Engineering Group Zhejiang Electric Power Design Institute, 2015 - 2018

Research interests

• Marine geotechnical engineering
• PFEM and SPFEM for large deformation analysis in geotechnical engineering
• Coupled CFD-DEM-FEM simulation

Topic 1：Development of Fluid-Structure-Seabed Interaction Platform

• Contribution: Try to develop the FSSI (fluid-structure-seabed interaction) platform based on PFEM for simulation of marine geotechnical engineering problems.
• Significance: Try to find the appropriate contact algorithm and improve the accuracy and speed of multi-phase simulation.

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Topic 2：PFEM-based Partly Nodal Integration Method for FSI Problems

• Contribution: proposed an explicit α-NS-PFEM method combining the nodal integration and elemental integration.
• Significance: improving the computational efficiency and accuracy of FSI problems with the proposed method with fluid stabilization algorithms.