Sarah D Olson
Associate Professor
Affiliated with:
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Education:
BA Providence College 2003
MS University of Rhode Island 2005
PhD North Carolina State University 2008
At WPI, I enjoy teaching all courses fundamental to applied mathematics, scientific computing, and modeling. I am looking forward to mentoring students interested in working on areas in Mathematical Biology, Computational Biofluids, and Scientific Computing. I specialize in Mathematical Biology, understanding emergent properties of complex systems. The goals of these models are to understand the underlying biological processes and make predictions. Please visit my website to learn more about recent research projects.
Office Location
Stratton Hall 302
Contact
Phone:
+1-508-831-4940
Research Interests:
Mathematical Biology
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Scientific Computing
Locomotion
Tissue Engineering
Scholarly Work:
Swimming speeds of filaments in viscous fluids with resistance N Ho, SD Olson, K Leiderman Physical Review E 93 (4), 043108
A fast method to compute triply-periodic Brinkman flows HN Nguyen, S Olson, K Leiderman Computers & Fluids 133, 55-67
Hydrodynamic interactions of sheets vs filaments: Synchronization, attraction, and alignment SD Olson, LJ Fauci Physics of Fluids (1994-present) 27 (12), 121901
Radial basis function (RBF)‐based parametric models for closed and open curves within the method of regularized stokeslets V Shankar, SD Olson International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids 79 (6), 269-289
Compartment calcium model of frog skeletal muscle during activation W Liu, SD Olson Journal of Theoretical Biology 364, 139-153
Mathematical modeling of calcium signaling during sperm hyperactivation SD Olson, LJ Fauci, SS Suarez Molecular human reproduction 17 (8), 500-510
The dynamics of sperm detachment from epithelium in a coupled fluid-biochemical model of hyperactivated motility J Simons, S Olson, R Cortez, L Fauci Journal of theoretical biology 354, 81-94