Professors

Sept. 2010-Jan. 2016  Institute of Rock and Soil Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.

Ph.D. in Geotechnical Engineering.

Sept. 2006-Jun. 2010  Wuhan University, China. B.E. in Hydraulic Engineering.

May 2016-Dec. 2017 Postdoctoral fellow. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at San Antonio, United States.

Jun. 2018-present Associate Professor, College of Civil Engineering and Mechanics, Lanzhou University, China

Numerical Methods: Continuous and Discontinuous Galerkin Finite Element Method, Extended/Generalized Finite Element Method, Meshless Method;

Computational Solid Mechanics: constitutive modeling of solid materials, computational fracture mechanics;

Computational geomechanics: constitutive modeling of geomaterials, coupling analysis, hydraulic fracture modeling;

High performance computing.

 

 

Reviewer, Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements

Reviewer, Computers & Geosciences

 

？First Class Prize of National Mathematical Modeling Competition (Hubei Province), 2008

？National Lizhi Scholarship (one of the highest honors to college students in China), 2008 and 2009

？Brilliant Graduate Student of Wuhan University, 2010

？Merit Student of University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2011 and 2013

 

Sept. 2011-Jan. 2016: Institute of Rock and Soil Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Sept. 2011-Jan. 2016, Mechanism of interaction between the slope, dam and water and stability evolution, Ministry of Science and Technology, Co-IX

Jun. 2016-Dec. 2017: University of Texas at San Antonio.

Sept. 2011-Jan. 2016, Reservoir geomechanics, Co-II

 

1. Zhijun Liu and Ruijie Liu. 2018. Depletion-induced extreme plasticity across multiple horizontal wellbores in reservoirs with soft formations. Extreme Mechanics Letters 18:70-78.

2. Zhijun Liu and Ruijie Liu. 2018. A fully implicit finite element framework for modeling reservoir compaction with large deformation and nonlinear flow model. Part I: theory and formulation. Computational Geosciences 22(3): 623–637.

3. Zhijun Liu and Ruijie Liu. 2018. A fully implicit finite element framework for modeling reservoir compaction with large deformation and nonlinear flow model. Part I: theory and formulation. Computational Geosciences 22(3): 623–637.

4. Zhijun Liu and Ruijie Liu. 2018. A fully implicit finite element framework for modeling reservoir compaction with large deformation and nonlinear flow model. Part II: validation and numerical example. Computational Geosciences. 22(3): 639–656.

5. Ruijie Liu, Zhijun Liu. A DG relaxation-based implicit finite element framework for ductile fracture propagation and its validation using sandia fracture challenge. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1002/nme.5849.

1. Ruijie Liu and Zhijun Liu. A comprehensive computational framework for long term forecasting on serious wellbore damage and ground surface subsidence induced by oil and gas reservoir depletion. SPE Reservoir Simulation Conference, 20-22 February, 2017. Montgomery, Texas.

2. Zhijun Liu and Hong Zheng 2017. Refinement of physical patches in numerical manifold method (in Chinese). Rock and Soil Mechanics 38(4): 1-8.

1. Zhijun Liu Hong Zheng, and Cong Sun. 2016. A domain decomposition based method for two-dimensional linear elastic fractures. Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements 66:34-48.

2. Zhijun Liu and Hong Zheng. 2016. Two-dimensional numerical manifold method with multilayer covers. Science China Technological Sciences 59(4):515-530.

1. Hong Zheng, Zhijun Liu and Xiurun Ge. 2013. Numerical manifold space of Hermitian form and application to Kirchhoff's thin plate problems. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering 95(9):721-739.