Hello there, I am Shaoshuai Chu (楚少帅)!  Welcome to my homepage!

Academic Experience

• 2024.06—Present  Postdoc, Department of Mathematics,
              RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

• 2023.08—2024.05  Research Scholar, Department of Mathematics,
              Shenzhen International Center for Mathematics,
              Southern University of Science and Technology,
              Shenzhen, China

Publications (in the reversed chronological order)

Recent Preprints

• M. Bambach, S. Chu, M. Herty and Y. Lin, A Bayesian Approach to Feedback Control for Hyperbolic Balance Laws, submitted to International Journal of Control.

• S. Chu and M. Herty, A Comparative Study of Low-Dissipation Numerical Schemes for Hyperbolic Conservation Laws, submitted to Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations.

• S. Chu, M. Herty, A. Kurganov, M. Lukacova and C. Yu, Numerical Study of Dissipative Weak Solutions for the Euler Equations of Gas Dynamics, submitted to Pure and Applied Functional Analysis (special issue for Prof. Eitan Tadmor’s 70th birthday).

• S. Chu, M. Herty, High-Order Schemes for Hyperbolic Conservation Laws Using Young Measures, submitted to Journal of Computational Physics.

• S. Chu, A. Kurganov, M. Na, R. Xin and B.-S. Wang, Local Characteristic Decomposition of Equilibrium Variables for Hyperbolic Systems of Balance Laws, submitted to Applied Numerical Mathematics.

• S. Chu, P. Feng, V. A. Kolotilov, A. Kurganov and V. V. Ostapenko, Novel Adaptive Schemes for Hyperbolic Conservation Laws, submitted to Communications in Computational Physics.

• S. Chu, A. Kurganov, M. Lukacova and M. Na, A Locally Divergence-Free Local Characteristic Decomposition Based Path-Conservative Central-Upwind Scheme for Ideal Magnetohydrodynamics, submitted to Journal of Computational Physics.

• A. Porfetye, Z. Tang, S. Chu, C. Helzel and M. Lukacova, New Fully Discrete Active Flux Methods with Truly Multi-Dimensional Evolution Operators and WENO Reconstruction, submitted to Journal of Scientific Computing.

Publications in 2026

• S. Chu, M. Herty, M. Lukacova and Y. Zhou, Solving Random Hyperbolic Conservation Laws Using Linear Programming, to appear in SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing.

• S. Chu, M. Herty and A. Kurganov, Numerical Analysis of Stabilization for Random Hyperbolic Systems of Balance Laws, International Journal of Control, (2026), pp. 1-16.

Publications in 2025

• S. Chu, M. Herty and E. F. Toro, High-Order Flux Splitting Schemes for the Euler Equations of Gas Dynamics, Computers & Fluids, 300 (2025), Paper No. 106738, 15 pp.

• S. Chu, M. Herty and A. Kurganov, Novel Local Characteristic Decomposition Based Path-Conservative Central-Upwind Schemes, Journal of Computational Physics, 524 (2025), Paper No. 113692, 24 pp.

• S. Chu, A. Kurganov, S. Mohammadian and Z. D. Zheng, Central-Upwind Scheme for the Phase-Transition Traffic Flow Model, Journal of Computational Physics, 539 (2025), Paper No. 114241, 19 pp.

• S. Chu, A. Kurganov and R. Xin, New More Efficient A-WENO Schemes, Journal of Scientific Computing, 104 (2025), Paper No. 53, 24 pp.

• S. Chu, A. Kurganov and R. Xin, New Low-Dissipation Central-Upwind Schemes. Part II, Journal of Scientific Computing, 103 (2025), Paper No. 33, 17 pp.

• S. Chu, A. Kurganov and R. Xin, A Well-Balanced Fifth-Order A-WENO Scheme Based on Flux Globalization, Beijing Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics, 2 (2025), pp. 87-113.

• S. Chu, A. Kurganov and I. Menshov, New Adaptive Low-Dissipation Central-Upwind Schemes, Applied Numerical Mathematics, 209 (2025), pp. 155-170.

• S. Mohammadian, Z. D. Zheng, S. Chu and A. Kurganov, Numerical Study of the Non-Conservative NET-RAT Traffic Flow Model by Path-Conservative Central-Upwind Schemes, Computers and Mathematics with Applications, 179 (2025), pp. 212-228.

Publications in 2024

• S. Chu, I. Kliakhandler and A. Kurganov, On the Gelfand Problem and Viscosity Matrices for Two-Dimensional Hyperbolic Systems of Conservation Laws, Siberian Electronic Mathematical Reports, 21 (2024), pp. 78-91.

• S. Chu, A. Kurganov and R. Xin, Low-Dissipation Central-Upwind Schemes for Compressible Multifluids, Journal of Computational Physics, 518 (2024), Paper No. 113311, 35 pp.

• A. Chertock, S. Chu and A. Kurganov, Accurate Deterministic Projection Methods for Stiff Detonation Waves, Communications in Mathematical Sciences, 22 (2024), pp. 871-910.

• S. Chu, A. Kurganov and R. Xin, A Fifth-Order A-WENO Scheme Based on the Low-Dissipation Central-Upwind Fluxes, Hyperbolic problems: theory, numerics, applications. Vol. II, SEMA SIMAI Springer Ser., Vol. 35, pp. 51–61, Springer, Cham, 2024.

Publications in 2023

• S. Chu, O. Kovyrkina, A. Kurganov and V. Ostapenko, Experimental Convergence Rate Study for Three Shock-Capturing Schemes and Development of Highly Accurate Combined Schemes, Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations, 39 (2023), pp. 4317-4346.

• V. A. Kolotilov, A. A. Kurganov, V. V. Ostapenko, N. A. Khandeeva and S. Chu, On the Accuracy of Shock-Capturing Schemes Calculating Gas-Dynamic Shock Waves, Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Physics, 63 (2023), pp. 1341-1349.

• A. Chertock, S. Chu and A. Kurganov, Adaptive High-Order A-WENO Schemes Based on a New Local Smoothness Indicator, East Asian Journal on Applied Mathematics, 13 (2023), pp. 576-609.

• S. Chu and A. Kurganov, Local Characteristic Decomposition Based Central-Upwind Scheme for Compressible Multifluids, Finite Volumes for Complex Applications X–Volume 2, Hyperbolic and Related Problems, Springer Proc. Math. Stat., Vol. 433 (2023), pp. 73–81, Springer, Cham.

• S. Chu, A. Kurganov, S. Mohammadian and Z. D. Zheng, Fifth-Order A-WENO Path-Conservative Central-Upwind Scheme for Behavioral Non-Equilibrium Traffic Models, Communications in Computational Physics, 33 (2023), pp. 692-732.

• S. Chu and A. Kurganov, Flux Globalization Based Well-Balanced Central-Upwind Scheme for One-Dimensional Blood Flow Models, Calcolo, 60 (2023), Paper No. 2, 35 pp.

• A. Chertock, S. Chu, M. Herty, A. Kurganov and M. Lukacova, Local Characteristic Decomposition Based Central-Upwind Scheme, Journal of Computational Physics, 473 (2023), Paper No. 111718, 24 pp.

Publication in 2022

• S. Chu, A. Kurganov and M. Na, Fifth-Order A-WENO Schemes Based on the Path-Conservative Central-Upwind Method, Journal of Computational Physics, 469 (2022), Paper No. 111508, 22 pp.

Publication in 2021

• A. Chertock, S. Chu and A. Kurganov, Hybrid Multifluid Algorithms Based on the Path-Conservative Central-Upwind Scheme, Journal of Scientific Computing, 89 (2021), Paper No. 48, 24 pp.

Academic Education

• 2019—2023  PhD in Computational Mathematics,
         Department of Mathematics, Southern University of Science and Technology,
         Shenzhen, China
• 2017—2019 MS in Computational Mathematics,
         School of Mathematics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China
         Department of Mathematics, Southern University of Science and Technology,
         Shenzhen, China
• 2013—2017 BS in Information and Computing Science,
         School of Mathematics and Statistics, Beijing Institute of Technology,
         Beijing, China

Teaching Assistant Experience

• 2023 Spring   ODE
• 2022 Fall     Linear Algebra & Scientific Computing
• 2022 Spring   ODE & Numerical Solutions to PDEs
• 2021 Fall     Calculus I
• 2021 Spring   Calculus II
• 2020 Fall     Linear Algebra
• 2020 Spring   Calculus II
• 2019 Fall     Calculus I
• 2019 Spring   Calculus II
• 2018 Fall     Calculus I
• 2018 Spring   Calculus II
• 2017 Fall     Calculus I

Awards

• 2023.06    Top 10 Graduates with a Postgraduate Degree of the University
         Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China

• 2023.05    Outstanding Graduates of the University
         Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China

• 2023.05    Top 10 Graduates with a Postgraduate Degree of the School of Science
         Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China

• 2022.10    National Scholarship
         Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China

• 2016.10    National Encouragement Scholarship
         Scholarship for Outstanding Students
         Outstanding Students of the University
         Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China

• 2016.05    Honorable Mention in MCM/ICM
         Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China

• 2015.10    National Encouragement Scholarship
         Scholarship for Outstanding Students
         Outstanding Students of the University
         Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China

• 2014.10    National Encouragement Scholarship
         Scholarship for Outstanding Students
         Outstanding Students of the University
         Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China