个人简介

研究方向为颗粒材料多尺度计算，涵盖离散元、有限元、物质点法、计算流体动力学及多尺度耦合等数值方法，同时关注先进数值算法与高性能计算软件研发，并应用于复杂颗粒体系过程仿真分析及相关工程问题研究。

教育背景

  • 2018.12，美国克莱姆森大学，土木工程，博士
  • 2012.06，中山大学，交通工程，本科

工作经历

  • 2025.12-至今，中山大学⾹港⾼等研究院，应⽤数学研究中⼼，双聘教师
  • 2023.03-至今，中山大学，土木工程学院，副教授
  • 2021.02-2023.02，香港科技大学，土木与环境工程学院，博士后（“香江学者”计划）
  • 2019.02-2023.02，中山大学，智能工程学院，博士后
  • 2018.06-2018.12，美国爱达荷国家实验室，Research Intern

主持科研项目

  • 广东省省⾃然科学基⾦，面上项目，水合物固态流化开采中气-液-固三相流动机理与耦合数值方法研究，2026.01-2028.12
  • 全国博士后管委会办公室和香港学者协会，“香江学者”计划项目，颗粒介质多尺度模拟，2021.02-2023.02.
  • 国家自然科学基金，青年项目，基于CT图像和机器学习的钙质砂宏微观力学试验及多尺度离散元建模，2020.01-2022.12.
  • 博士后科学基金，面上项目，基于傅里叶级数的不规则颗粒离散元方法研究，2020.01-2021.12.
  • 高校基本科研业务费，青年教师培育项目，基于计算机视觉的交通基础设施结构智能检测与健康评估，2020.01-2021.12.

近五年论文（#学生，*通讯）

  • Li, C.#, Huang, L., Lai, Z.*, Huang, S., & Lin, Y. (2026). A diffusion-based generative framework for virtual porous granular media generation. Powder Technology, 473, 122230.
  • Li, C.#, Lai, Z.*, Huang, S., & Huang, L. (2026). Neural network-driven shape representation and computational particle mechanics via signed distance fields. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 167, 113913.
  • Lai, Z., Huang, S., Kong, Y., Zhao, S., Zhao, J.*, & Huang, L.* (2026). Hybrid resolved-unresolved CFD-DEM framework for multiscale fluid-particle systems with irregular-shaped and polydisperse particles. Journal of Computational Physics, 554, 114759.
  • Huang, S., Pei, W.*, Lai, Z.*, Yin, Z.-y., Huang, L., & Xu, C. (2024). Machine-learning-enabled discrete element method: The extension to three dimensions and computational issues. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 432, 117445.
  • Lai, Z., Feng, Y. T., Zhao, J., & Huang, L.* (2024). Unifying the contact in signed distance field-based and conventional discrete element methods. Computers and Geotechnics, 176, 106764.
  • Lai, Z.*, Zhao, J.*, Zhao, S., & Huang, L. (2023). Signed distance field enhanced fully resolved CFD-DEM for simulation of granular flows involving multiphase fluids and irregularly shaped particles. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 414, 116195.
  • Lai, Z., Xia, Y., & Chen, Q.* (2023). Discrete element modeling of granular hopper flow of irregular-shaped deformable particles. Advanced Powder Technology, 34(9), 104106.
  • Huang, S.#, Huang, L., Lai, Z.*, & Zhao, J. (2023). Morphology characterization and discrete element modeling of coral sand with intraparticle voids. Engineering Geology, 315, 107023.
  • 吴峰#, 黄林冲, & 赖正首*. (2022). 基于球面沃罗诺伊的颗粒表面离散与重构方法. 工程力学, 40, 1-13.
  • Zhao, S., Lai, Z.*, & Zhao, J. (2022). Leveraging ray tracing cores for particle‐based simulations on GPUs. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 124(3), 696-713.
  • Xiao, R., Liang, B., Wu, F., Huang, L., & Lai, Z.* (2022). Biocementation of coral sand under seawater environment and an improved three-stage biogrouting approach. Construction and Building Materials, 362, 129758.
  • Lai, Z., Zhao, S., Zhao, J., & Huang, L. (2022). Signed distance field framework for unified DEM modeling of granular media with arbitrary particle shapes. Computational Mechanics, 70(4), 763-783.
  • Lai, Z., Zhao, S., Zhao, J., & Huang, L. (2021). Revisiting the GJK and shape erosion method for contact resolution in DEM. Powder Technology, 394, 363-371.
  • Lai, Z., Chen, Q., & Huang, L. (2021). Machine‐learning‐enabled discrete element method: Contact detection and resolution of irregular‐shaped particles. International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, 46(1), 113-140.
  • Lai, Z., Chen, Q., & Huang, L. (2021). Evaluating the hydromechanical responses of seabed–pipelines with rotated anisotropic heterogeneous seabed properties. Ocean Engineering, 234, 109226.
  • Huang, S.#, Huang, L., & Lai, Z.* (2021). An extension of the Fourier series-based particle model to the GJK-based contact detection and resolution framework for DEM. Computational Particle Mechanics, 1-11.
  • Lai, Z. & Huang, L. (2021). A polybezier-based particle model for the DEM modeling of granular media. Computers and Geotechnics, 134, 104052.
  • Lai, Z., Chen, Q., & Huang, L. (2021). A semianalytical Hertzian frictional contact model in 2D. Applied Mathematical Modelling, 92, 546-564.

报考/合作

  • 招收力学方向研究生。