Minjie Zhu Ph.D.

Oregon State University, Corvallis · zhum@oregonstate.edu

I’m a Research Associate in Structural Engineering at Oregon State University working with Prof. Michael H. Scott. My research focuses on the nonlinear fluid-structure interaction (FSI) using the particle finite element method (PFEM). All the work are implemented in the OpenSees framework.

I implement the OpenSeesPy for OpenSees users to use the Python language.

Work Experience

Research Associate

Oregon State University

October 2019 - Present

Faculty Research Assistant

Oregon State University

June 2018 - October 2019

Postdoctoral Scholar

Oregon State University

January 2015 - June 2018

Graduate Research Assistant

Oregon State University

January 2009 - December 2014

Teaching Experience

Instructor

Oregon State University

CEM 383 -- Structure II (Ecampus)

Winter 2022

Instructor

Oregon State University

CE 536 -- Matrix Structural Analysis (formerly CE 585)

Fall 2021

Instructor

Oregon State University

CE 536 -- Matrix Structural Analysis (formerly CE 585)

Fall 2018

Instructor

Oregon State University

CE 585 -- Matrix Structural Analysis

Fall 2016

Mentor

Oregon State University

SURF Program

Summer 2016

Education

Oregon State University

Doctor of Philosophy

Structural Engineering

Dissertation: "Fluid-Structure interaction analysis with the particle finite element method"

September 2008 - November 2014

Southeast University, China

Master of Science

Structural Engineering

September 2005 - June 2008

Yangzhou University, China

bachelor of Science

Civil Engineering

September 2001 - June 2005

Publications

Zhu, M. and Scott, M. H. " A PFEM Background Mesh for Simulating Fluid and Frame Structure Interaction " Journal of Structural Engineering, 148(6), 2022.

Zhu, M. and McKenna, F. and Scott, M. H. " OpenSeesPy: Python library for the OpenSees finite element framework. " SoftwareX, 7:6-11, June 2018.

Zhu, M. and Elkhetali, I. and Scott, M. H. " Validation of OpenSees for tsunami loading on bridge superstructures. " Journal of Bridge Engineering, 23:4:04018015, April 2018.

Zhu, M. and Scott, M. H. " Direct differentiation of the quasi-incompressible fluid formulation of fluid-structure interaction using the PFEM. " Computational Particle Mechanics, 4(3):307-319, July 2017.

Zhu, M. and Scott, M. H. " Unified fractional step method for Lagrangian analysis of quasi-incompressible fluid and nonlinear structure interaction using the PFEM. " International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 109(9):1219-1236, March 2017.

Zhu, M. and Scott, M. H. " Direct differentiation of the Particle Finite Element Method for fluid-structure interaction. " Journal of Structural Engineering, 142(3):04015159, March 2016.

Zhu, M. and Scott, M. H. " Sensitivity Analysis of Fluid-Structure Interaction using the PFEM " 12th International Conference of Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering (ICASP12), Vancouver, BC, July 2015.

Zhu, M. and Scott, M. H. " Improved fractional step method for simulating fluid‐structure interaction using the PFEM " International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 99(12):925-944, September 2014.

Zhu, M. and Scott, M. H. " Modeling fluid–structure interaction by the particle finite element method in OpenSees " Computers & Structures, 132:12-21, 2014.

Awards & Certifications

Certificate of Competency: Fundamentals of Accelerated Computing With CUDA C/C++. NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute, 2019
2012 Best New Contribution to OpenSees (Fluid-Structure Interaction and Particle Finite Element Method), PEER 2012
Certificate of Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 2017