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Education

• Ph.D. (Applied Mathematics), Shanghai University of Science and Technology
• M.S. (Applied Mathematics), Shanghai University of Science and Technology
• B.S. (Computational Mathematics), Nanjing University

Research Areas

• Error estimates on anisotropic meshes;
• Combined h-r mesh refinement for the finite element method of time dependent PDEs;
• Moving mesh methods; See how the mesh moves (230K)
• Domain decomposition methods for the p and h-p version of finite element methods
• The p-version finite element method / spectral methods for nonlinear PDEs in fluid dynamics, approximation theory and stability analysis.

Publications

2009
Brooks, E., Cao, W., Demeler, B. (2009). A two-dimensional spectrum analysis for sedimentation velocity experiments of mixtures with heterogeneity in molecular weight and shape. European Biophysical Journal.

2008 
Cao, W. (2008). An interpolation error estimate in $R^2$ based on the anisotropic measures of higher order derivatives. AMS Mathematics of Computation, 77, 265-286.

Cao, W., Demeler, B. (2008). Modeling analytical ultracentrifugation experiments with an adaptive space-time finite element solution for multi-component reacting systems. Biophysical Journal, 95, 54-65.

2007 
Cao, W. (2007). An interpolation error estimate on anisotropic meshes in $R^n$ and optimal metrics for mesh refinement. SIAM Journal of Numerical Analysis, 45, 2368-2391.

Cao, W. (2007). Anisotropic measures of third order derivatives and the quadratic interpolation error on triangular elements. SIAM Journal of Scientific Computing, 29, 756-781.