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Engineering and Technology

D-Index
32
Citations
3774
World Ranking
9595
National Ranking
2722

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Fellow of the American Mathematical Society For contributions to partial differential equations, and for mathematical modeling of fluid-structure interactions that has influenced the design of medical devices.
  • 2014 - SIAM Fellow For contributions to the modeling and analysis of partial differential equations motivated by applications in the life sciences.

Overview

Sunčica Čanić is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States, focusing on research that spans engineering, computer science, and mathematics.

Their recent papers include:

  • Moving boundary problems, 2020, Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society
  • A Next-Generation Mathematical Model for Drug-Eluting Stents, 2021, SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics
  • Optimal design of vascular stents using a network of 1D slender curved rods, 2022, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

The scientist's work covers a range of topics within applied and computational mathematics, with emphasis on fluid-structure interactions and biomedical applications.

Main fields of study include:

  • Engineering
  • Computer Science
  • Mathematics

Research subfields include:

  • Computational Theory and Mathematics
  • Computational Mechanics
  • Applied Mathematics
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Finance

The main research topics engaged by Čanić involve:

  • Navier-Stokes equation solutions
  • Advanced Mathematical Modeling in Engineering
  • Lattice Boltzmann Simulation Studies
  • Stochastic processes and financial applications
  • Contact Mechanics and Variational Inequalities
  • Advanced Numerical Methods in Computational Mathematics
  • Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics

Frequent co-authors in their publications are:

  • Boris Muha
  • Jeffrey Kuan
  • Martina Bukač
  • Yifan Wang
  • Lorena Bociu

The scientist frequently publishes in specialized venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Transactions of the American Mathematical Society
  • Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society
  • SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis

Čanić also has a book publication titled Progress in Mathematical Fluid Dynamics, published in 2020 by Springer Nature.

Honors awarded include:

  • Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2020) for contributions to partial differential equations and mathematical modeling of fluid-structure interactions influencing medical device design
  • SIAM Fellow (2014) for contributions to modeling and analysis of partial differential equations motivated by applications in the life sciences

Best Publications

  • Stable loosely-coupled-type algorithm for fluid-structure interaction in blood flow

    Giovanna Guidoboni;Roland Glowinski;Nicola Cavallini;Suncica Canic

  • Flows on networks: recent results and perspectives

    Alberto Bressan;Sunčica Čanić;Mauro Garavello;Michael Herty

  • Mathematical analysis of the quasilinear effects in a hyperbolic model blood flow through compliant axi-symmetric vessels

    Sunčica Čanić;Eun Heui Kim

  • Existence of a Weak Solution to a Nonlinear Fluid–Structure Interaction Problem Modeling the Flow of an Incompressible, Viscous Fluid in a Cylinder with Deformable Walls

    Boris Muha;Suncica Canić

  • A proof of existence of perturbed steady transonic shocks via a free boundary problem

    Sunčica Čanič;Barbara Lee Keyfitz;Gary M. Lieberman

  • MODELING VISCOELASTIC BEHAVIOR OF ARTERIAL WALLS AND THEIR INTERACTION WITH PULSATILE BLOOD FLOW

    Sunčica Čanić;Josip Tambača;Giovanna Guidoboni;Andro Mikelić

  • Blood Flow in Compliant Arteries: An Effective Viscoelastic Reduced Model, Numerics, and Experimental Validation

    Sunčica Čanić;Craig J. Hartley;Doreen Rosenstrauch;Josip Tambača

  • Fluid-structure interaction in blood flow capturing non-zero longitudinal structure displacement

    Martina Bukač;Sunčica Čanić;Roland Glowinski;Josip Tambača

  • Extended ALE Method for fluid-structure interaction problems with large structural displacements

    Steffen Basting;Annalisa Quaini;Sunčica źanić;Roland Glowinski

  • A free boundary problem for a quasi-linear degenerate elliptic equation: Regular reflection of weak shocks

    Sunčica Čanić;Barbara Lee Keyfitz;Eun Heui Kim

  • Emerging Trends in Heart Valve Engineering: Part I. Solutions for Future

    Arash Kheradvar;Elliott M. Groves;Lakshmi P. Dasi;S. Hamed Alavi

  • Effective Equations Modeling the Flow of a Viscous Incompressible Fluid through a Long Elastic Tube Arising in the Study of Blood Flow through Small Arteries

    Suncica Canic;Andro Mikelic

  • Free Boundary Problems for the Unsteady Transonic Small Disturbance Equation: Transonic Regular Reflection

    Suncica Canic;Eun Heui Kim;Barbara Lee Keyfitz

  • Self-Consistent Effective Equations Modeling Blood Flow in Medium-to-Large Compliant Arteries

    Suncica Canic;Daniele Lamponi;Andro Mikelic;Josip Tambaca

  • Existence of a solution to a fluid–multi-layered structure interaction problem

    Boris Muha;Sunčica Čanić

  • Blood flow through compliant vessels after endovascular repair: wall deformations induced by the discontinuous wall properties

    Sunčica Čanić

  • Free boundary problems for nonlinear wave systems : Mach stems for interacting shocks

    Suncica Canic;Barbara Lee Keyfitz;Eun Heui Kim

  • Existence of a weak solution to a fluid–elastic structure interaction problem with the Navier slip boundary condition

    Boris Muha;Sunčica Čanić

  • Validation of an open source framework for the simulation of blood flow in rigid and deformable vessels.

    T. Passerini;A. Quaini;U. Villa;Alessandro Veneziani

  • Computations of Slowly Moving Shocks

    Smadar Karni;Sunćica Čanić

  • Emerging Trends in Heart Valve Engineering: Part II. Novel and Standard Technologies for Aortic Valve Replacement

    Arash Kheradvar;Elliott M Groves;Craig J Goergen;S Hamed Alavi

  • An Elliptic Problem Arising from the Unsteady Transonic Small Disturbance Equation

    Sunčica Čanić;Barbara Lee Keyfitz

  • A two-dimensional effective model describing fluid–structure interaction in blood flow: analysis, simulation and experimental validation

    Sunčica Čanić;Andro Mikelić;Josip Tambača

  • Fluid-structure interaction between an incompressible, viscous 3D fluid and an elastic shell with nonlinear Koiter membrane energy

    Boris Muha;Sunčica Čanić

Frequent Co-Authors

Roland Glowinski
Roland Glowinski University of Houston
Andro Mikelić
Andro Mikelić Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Boyce E. Griffith
Boyce E. Griffith University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Mohammad R. K. Mofrad
Mohammad R. K. Mofrad University of California, Berkeley
Benedetto Piccoli
Benedetto Piccoli Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Robert T. Tranquillo
Robert T. Tranquillo University of Minnesota
Alessandro Veneziani
Alessandro Veneziani Emory University
Béatrice Rivière
Béatrice Rivière Rice University
Luca Formaggia
Luca Formaggia Polytechnic University of Milan
Francesco Migliavacca
Francesco Migliavacca Polytechnic University of Milan

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