Message from the Chief
Mark Ratcliffe, M.D.
Professor and Vice-Chair, Department of Surgery,
UCSF
Chief of Surgery, San Francisco VA Medical Center
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Liang Ge, Ph.D.
Assistant Adjunct Professor
Contact Information
4150 Clement Street
San Francisco, CA 94121
Tel: 415-750-2057
Fax: 415-750-2181
San Francisco, CA 94121
Tel: 415-750-2057
Fax: 415-750-2181
Education
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Tsinghua University, Beijing, China-BE, 1996
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Tsinghua University, Beijing, China-ME, 1999
Postdoctoral Training
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Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, PhD, 2004
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Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, Postdoc, 2005
Research Interests
- Cardiovascular Fluid Dynamics
- Fluid/structure interaction
- Multi-scale simulation
- Patient specific surgical planning
- Cardiovascular diseases and hemodynamics
- Computational Fluid Dynamics and parallel computation
Selected Publications
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Borazjani, I., Ge, L., and Sotiropoulos, F., "Curvilinear immersed boundary method for simulating fluid structure interaction with complex 3D rigid bodies", Journal of Computational Physics, accepted.
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Ge, L., Dasi, L. P., Sotiropoulos, F., and Yoganathan, A. P., 2008, "Characterization of Hemodynamic Forces Induced by Mechanical Heart Valves: Reynolds vs. Viscous Stresses", Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 36(2), 276-297.
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Dasi, L. P., Ge, L., Simon, H. A., Sotiropoulos, F., and Yoganathan, A. P., 2007, "Vorticity Dynamics of a Bileaflet Mechanical Heart Valve in an Axisymmetric Aorta", Physics of Fluids, 067105
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Ge, L., Leo, H.L., Sotiropoulos, F., and Yoganathan, A.P., 2005, "Flow in a Mechanical Bileaflet Heart Valve at Laminar and Near-Peak Systole Flow Rates: CFD Simulations and Experiments", Journal of Biomechanical Engineering- Transactions of the ASME, 127(5), pp 782-797.
