Zhi Li

Zhi Li

Postdoc at PNNL. Interested in numerical modeling of geophysical flow & solute/reactive/sediment transport, and river dynamics. Views and posts here are my own.

Teaching

Undergraduate Student Research Mentor at the University of Illinois

Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program (URAP), Office of Undergraduate Research, 2020

Mentored two students. Gave them a mini-project on the numerical simulation of a fish-ladder. Proposed two final projects for them to participate the Undergraduate Research Symposium (URS): 1) Simulating the Chicago River Flooding Issue, and 2) Reverse Engineering Hydraulic Modeling Visualization Tools by Implementing Delaunay Triangulation using Java.

Undergraduate Student Research Mentor at the University of Illinois

Promoting Undergraduate Research in Engineering (PURE), Grainger College of Engineering, 2020

Proposed two projects to undergraduate students: 1) Computational Fluid Dynamics 101, and 2) Fluvial Geomorphology 101. The mentoring is composed of lectures, weekly-meetings, a mini-project and a final-project. One of the students won the best poster presentation award.

Teaching Assistant at the University of Pittsburgh

CEE 2416 Sediment Transport, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2015

One of the duties was leading the experiment classes, e.g. to demonstrate the relationship between Froude number and river bedforms using laboratory flume experiments.