My research interests are in the broad area of computational modeling and scientific computing. I am particularly focused on developing numerical methods for solving multiphysics problems, such as atmospheric modeling and fluid-structure interaction, and implementing these methods on high-performance computing systems.

Research Interests

• Multiphysics and multiscale methods
• Finite element and finite volume methods
• Atmospheric modeling
• Fluid-structure interaction
• High-performance computing

Personal website: https://soonpilkang.com

• Ph.D., Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• M.S., Architectural Engineering, Seoul National University

• B.S., Architectural Engineering, Seoul National University

S. Kang, J.F. Kelly, A.P. Austin, F.X. Giraldo, Multiscale modeling framework using element-based Galerkin methods for moist atmospheric limited-area simulations, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 17 (2025) e2024MS004453. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024MS004453

S. Kang, F.X. Giraldo, S. Camp, A GPU-accelerated simulation of rapid intensification of a tropical cyclone with observed heating, arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.08157 (2025).

S. Kang, A. Masud, Concurrent two-way coupling of global and local models across internal boundaries with non-matching discretizations, Advances in Computational Science and Engineering 4 (2025) 168-200. https://doi.org/10.3934/acse.2025016

F.X. Giraldo, F.A.V. de Bragança Alves, J.F. Kelly, S. Kang, P.A. Reinecke, A performance study of horizontally explicit vertically implicit (HEVI) time-integrators for non-hydrostatic atmospheric models, Journal of Computational Physics 515 (2024), 113275. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2024.113275

S Kang, A Masud, Variational Multiscale immersed boundary method for incompressible turbulent flows, Journal of Computational Physics 469 (2022), 111523. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2022.111523

S. Kang, S. Nashar, A. Masud, Blood-artery interaction in calcified aortas and abdominal aortic aneurysms, Extreme Mechanics Letters, 54 (2022) 101684. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eml.2022.101684

S. Kang, J. Kwack, A. Masud, Variational coupling of non-matching discretizations across finitely deforming fluid-structure interfaces, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, 94 (2022) 678-718. https://doi.org/10.1002/fld.5071

S. Kang, A. Masud, A Variational Multiscale method with immersed boundary conditions for incompressible flows, Meccanica, 56 (2021) 1397-1422. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11012-020-01227-w

S. Kang, S. Nashar, E.R. Livingston, A. Masud, Weakly imposed boundary conditions for shear-rate dependent non-Newtonian fluids with application to cardiovascular flows, Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, 18 (2021) 3855-3886. https://doi.org/10.3934/mbe.2021193