Yaguang Gu
time: 2025-11-24

Yaguang Gu

Position: Associate Professor
Email: guyaguang@scut.edu.cn

Research Interests

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics

  • Domain Decomposition Methods

Education and Work Experience

Education Experience:

  • 2016/09-2019/11: Hong Kong Baptist University, Computational Mathematics (Ph.D.)

  • 2013/09-2016/08: University of Macau, Computational Mathematics (M.Sc.)

Work Experience:

  • 2022/09-Present: South China University of Technology, School of Mathematics, Associate Professor / Master Supervisor

  • 2020/08-2022/08: Ocean University of China, School of Mathematical Sciences, Postdoctoral Fellow (Co-advisor: Zhen Gao)

Research Achievement

  • Submitted/In preparation

  • Published (Article)

  • Qingcheng Fu, Yaguang Gu*, Alexander Kurganov, and Bao-Shan Wang, Bound- and Positivity-Preserving Path-Conservative Central-Upwind AWENO Scheme for the Five-Equation Model of Compressible Two-component Flows, Journal of Scientific Computing, 104 (2025), Article No. 94.

  • Shumo Cui, Yaguang Gu, Alexander Kurganov, Kailiang Wu, and Ruixiao Xin*, Positivity-Preserving New Low-Dissipation Central-Upwind Schemes for Compressible Euler Equations, Journal of Computational Physics, 538 (2025), Article No. 114189.

  • Yue Liu, Zhen Gao, Peng Li and Yaguang Gu*, High Order Well-Balanced Finite Difference AWENO Scheme for Ripa and Pollutant Transport Systems, Advances in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, 17 (2025), pp. 554-572. 

  • Zhen Gao, Shuang Guo, Bao-Shan Wang, and Yaguang Gu*, High Order Bound- and Positivity-preserving Finite difference Affine-invariant AWENO Scheme for the Five-equation Model of Two-medium Flows, Communications in Computational Physics, 36 (2024), pp. 781-820.

  • Qingcheng Fu, Zhen Gao, Yaguang Gu, Peng Li*, and Bao-Shan Wang, Improved Well-balanced AWENO Schemes with Hydrostatic Reconstruction for the Euler Equations Under Gravitational Fields, Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, 2024, 221, pp. 260-280.

  • Baifen Ren, Zhen Gao, Yaguang Gu, Shusen Xie, and Xiangxiong Zhang*, A Positivity-Preserving and Well-Balanced High Order Compact Finite Difference Scheme for Shallow Water Equations, Communications in Computational Physics, 35 (2024), pp. 524-552.

  • Yaguang Gu, Zhen Gao*, Guanghui Hu, Peng Li, and Qingcheng Fu, High Order Well-balanced Positivity-preserving Scale-invariant AWENO Scheme for Euler Systems with Gravitational Field, Journal of Computational Physics, 488 (2023), Article No. 112190.

  • Xucheng Meng, Yaguang Gu and Guanghui Hu*, A Fourth-order Unstructured NURBS-enhanced Finite Volume WENO Scheme for Steady Euler Equations on Curved Geometries, Communications on Applied Mathematics and Computation, 5 (2023), pp. 315-342.

  • Yaguang Gu, Dongmi Luo, Zhen Gao* and Yibing Chen, An Adaptive Moving Mesh Method for the Five-equation Model, Communications in Computational Physics, 32 (2022), pp. 189-221.

  • Qingcheng Fu, Zhen Gao, Yaguang Gu and Peng Li*, High order well-balanced conservative finite difference AWENO scheme with hydrostatic reconstruction for the Euler equations under gravitational fields, Applied Numerical Mathematics, 180 (2022), pp. 1-15.

  • Yaguang Gu, Zhen Gao*, Guanghui Hu, Peng Li and Lifeng Wang, High Order Finite Difference Alternative WENO Scheme for Multi-component Flows, Journal of Scientific Computing, 89 (2021), Article No. 52.

  • Yaguang Gu and Felix Kwok*, On the Choice of Robin Parameters for the Optimized Schwarz Method for Domains with Non-conforming Heterogeneities, Journal of Scientific Computing, 89 (2021), Article No. 5.

  • Yaguang Gu, Zhen Gao*, Guanghui Hu, Peng Li, and Lifeng Wang, A Robust High Order Alternative WENO Scheme for the Five-Equation Model, Journal of Scientific Computing, 88 (2021), Article No. 12.

  • Yaguang Gu and Guanghui Hu*, A Third Order Adaptive ADER Scheme for One Dimensional Conservation Laws, Communications in Computational Physics, 22 (2017), pp. 829-851.

  • Published (Proceedings)

  • Shumo Cui, Yaguang Gu*, Alexander Kurganov, and Ruixiao Xin, New Low-Dissipation Central-Upwind Scheme for Relativistic Hydrodynamics, Proceedings of the International Conference on Hyperbolic Problems: Theory, Numerics, and Applications (HYP2024), Accepted for publication.

  • Yaguang Gu and Felix Kwok, Optimized Schwarz-based Nonlinear Preconditioning for Elliptic PDEs, Domain Decomposition Methods in Computational Science and Engineering XXV, Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering, Springer, 138 (2020), pp. 260-267.

OthersAwardsResearch Grants…etc

  • Research Grants

  • Jan. 2026 - Dec. 2028, Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation: General Program (Principal Investigator)

  • Jan. 2024 - Dec. 2025, Guangzhou Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation: Young Doctors 'Qihang' Program (Principal Investigator, Grant No.: SL2023A04J00672)

  • Jan. 2024 - Dec. 2026, National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC): Youth Science Fund Project (Principal Investigator, Grant No.: 12301505)

  • Nov. 2021 - Jun. 2022, China Postdoctoral Science Foundation: General Program (Principal Investigator, Grant No.: 2021M703040)

  • Teaching Grants

  • South China University of Technology 2024 Industrial Software Talent Cultivation Project (Participant)

  • University-level Smart Course (AI-Assisted Course) Cultivation Project -- Linear Algebra and Analytic Geometry (Participant, Host: Associate Professor Han Le)

  • Exploration of Blended Teaching of Calculus Empowered by AI (Participant, Host: Associate Professor Lin Hongying)

  • Teaching Courses

  • 2025-2026, First Semester: Numerical Analysis (Graduate Public Course)

  • 2025-2026, First Semester: Numerical Solution of Differential Equations (Undergraduate Major Course)

  • 2025-2026, First Semester: Numerical Solution of Differential Equations -- Course Design (Undergraduate Major Course)

  • 2024-2025, First Semester: Linear Algebra and Analytic Geometry (Undergraduate Public Course)

  • 2023-2024, First Semester: Linear Algebra and Analytic Geometry (Undergraduate Public Course)

  • 2022-2023, Second Semester: Probability and Statistics (Undergraduate Public Course)

  • Contact Information

  • Office: Room 4136, School of Mathematics, Building 4, South China University of Technology (Wushan Campus)