Dr Khiem Nguyen

  • Lecturer in Thermal Energy / Multiscale Materials (Systems Power & Energy)

Biography

I obtained Bachelor in Mathematics (Vietnam National Univerisity), Master in Computational Engineering (Ruhr University of Bochum; RUB) and Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics (RUB). Prior to working at Glasgow, I worked for 5+ years in Civil Engineering and Mechanical Engineering at three institutes: University of Stuttgart, Helmholtz Research Center for Materials Science and ETH Zurich. I have joined University of Glasgow as a lecturer in Multiscale Materials since January 2022.

Research interests

My research interests are in analytical and computational methods for materials exhibiting multiscale characterization. Examples are ferroelectric materials, piezoelectric materials for harvesting energy, metamaterials with exotic and unnatural mechanical properties, and thermal composites. In addition, I am pursuing data-driven approaches to design materials using topology optimization or inverse design of microstructure with the aid of artificial neural networks. Another research theme of mine is data-driven computational mechanics with a special focus on constitutive modeling using artificial neural networks and optimization methods.


My publications and citation data can be found here: Goolge Scholar and ResearchGate

 

Publications

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2025

Hashemi, Mohammad Saber, Delzendehrooy, Fatemeh, Nguyen, Lu Trong Khiem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5546-457X, Kirby, Levi, Song, Xuan and Sheidaei, Azadeh (2025) Generative deep learning for designing printable multifunctional microstructural materials: application to piezocomposites. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 204, 106253. (doi: 10.1016/j.jmps.2025.106253)

Cheng, Hsu-Cheng, Nguyen, Lu Trong Khiem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5546-457X and Kochmann, Dennis M. (2025) FFT-based Galerkin and level-set methods for the homogenized evolution of domain nuclei in ferroelectrics. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 443, 118078. (doi: 10.1016/j.cma.2025.118078)

2024

Liu, Yuchen, Nguyen, Lu Trong Khiem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5546-457X, Li, Xuan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5655-8631 and Feeney, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7170-1830 (2024) A Timoshenko-Ehrenfest beam model for simulating Langevin transducer dynamics. Applied Mathematical Modelling, 131, pp. 363-380. (doi: 10.1016/j.apm.2024.04.019)

2023

Nguyen, Lu Trong Khiem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5546-457X and Smyth, Noel Frederick (2023) Modulation theory for radially symmetric kink waves governed by a multi-dimensional sine-Gordon equation. Journal of Nonlinear Science, 33(1), 11. (doi: 10.1007/s00332-022-09859-w)

2022

Nguyen, Lu Trong Khiem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5546-457X, Aydin, Roland Can and Cyron, Christian Johannes (2022) Accelerating the distance-minimizing method for data-driven elasticity with adaptive hyperparameters. Computational Mechanics, 70(3), pp. 621-638. (doi: 10.1007/s00466-022-02183-w)

2021

Nguyen, Lu Trong Khiem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5546-457X and Smyth, Noel Frederick (2021) Dispersive shock waves for the Boussinesq Benjamin–Ono equation. Studies in Applied Mathematics, 147(1), pp. 32-59. (doi: 10.1111/sapm.12381)

2020

Minh Nguyen‐Thanh, Vien, Nguyen, Lu Trong Khiem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5546-457X, Rabczuk, Timon and Zhuang, Xiaoying (2020) A surrogate model for computational homogenization of elastostatics at finite strain using high‐dimensional model representation‐based neural network. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 121(21), pp. 4811-4842. (doi: 10.1002/nme.6493)

Nguyen, Lu Trong Khiem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5546-457X, Rambausek, Matthias and Keip, Marc-André (2020) Variational framework for distance-minimizing method in data-driven computational mechanics. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 365, 112898. (doi: 10.1016/j.cma.2020.112898)

2019

Rambausek, Matthias, Göküzüm, Felix Selim, Nguyen, Lu Trong Khiem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5546-457X and Keip, Marc-André (2019) A two-scale FE-FFT approach to nonlinear magneto-elasticity. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 117(11), pp. 1117-1142. (doi: 10.1002/nme.5993)

Göküzüm, Felix Selim, Nguyen, Lu Trong Khiem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5546-457X and Keip, Marc-André (2019) A multiscale FE-FFT framework for electro-active materials at finite strains. Computational Mechanics, 64, pp. 63-84. (doi: 10.1007/s00466-018-1657-7)

2018

El, G.A., Nguyen, L.T.K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5546-457X and Smyth, N.F. (2018) Dispersive shock waves in systems with nonlocal dispersion of Benjamin-Ono type. Nonlinearity, 31(4), pp. 1392-1416. (doi: 10.1088/1361-6544/aaa10a)

Nguyen, Lu Trong Khiem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5546-457X and Keip, Marc-André (2018) A data-driven approach to nonlinear elasticity. Computers and Structures, 194, pp. 97-115. (doi: 10.1016/j.compstruc.2017.07.031)

2016

Nguyen, Lu Trong Khiem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5546-457X (2016) Soliton solution of good Boussinesq equation. Vietnam Journal of Mathematics, 44(2), pp. 375-385. (doi: 10.1007/s10013-015-0157-8)

Nguyen, Lu Trong Khiem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5546-457X (2016) A numerical scheme and some theoretical aspects for the cylindrically and spherically symmetric sine-Gordon equations. Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, 36, pp. 402-418. (doi: 10.1016/j.cnsns.2015.12.008)

Nguyen, Lu Trong Khiem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5546-457X (2016) Wronskian formulation and Ansatz method for bad Boussinesq equation. Vietnam Journal of Mathematics, 44(3), pp. 449-462. (doi: 10.1007/s10013-015-0145-z)

2015

Le, K.C. and Nguyen, L.T.K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5546-457X (2015) Slope modulation of ring waves governed by two-dimensional sine-Gordon equation. Wave Motion, 55, pp. 84-88. (doi: 10.1016/j.wavemoti.2014.12.005)

Nguyen, L.T.K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5546-457X (2015) Modified homogeneous balance method: Applications and new solutions. Chaos, Solitons and Fractals, 73, pp. 148-155. (doi: 10.1016/j.chaos.2015.01.017)

Le, K.C. and Nguyen, L.T.K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5546-457X (2015) Amplitude modulation of water waves governed by Boussinesq’s equation. Nonlinear Dynamics, 81(1-2), pp. 659-666. (doi: 10.1007/s11071-015-2017-1)

2014

Le, Khanh Chau and Nguyen, Lu Trong Khiem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5546-457X (2014) Amplitude modulation of waves governed by Korteweg-de Vries equation. International Journal of Engineering Science, 83, pp. 117-123. (doi: 10.1016/j.ijengsci.2014.04.019)

2013

Le, Khanh Chau and Nguyen, Lu Trong Khiem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5546-457X (2013) Slope modulation of waves governed by sine-Gordon equation. Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, 18(7), pp. 1563-1567. (doi: 10.1016/j.cnsns.2012.11.015)

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Number of items: 20.

Articles

Hashemi, Mohammad Saber, Delzendehrooy, Fatemeh, Nguyen, Lu Trong Khiem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5546-457X, Kirby, Levi, Song, Xuan and Sheidaei, Azadeh (2025) Generative deep learning for designing printable multifunctional microstructural materials: application to piezocomposites. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 204, 106253. (doi: 10.1016/j.jmps.2025.106253)

Cheng, Hsu-Cheng, Nguyen, Lu Trong Khiem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5546-457X and Kochmann, Dennis M. (2025) FFT-based Galerkin and level-set methods for the homogenized evolution of domain nuclei in ferroelectrics. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 443, 118078. (doi: 10.1016/j.cma.2025.118078)

Liu, Yuchen, Nguyen, Lu Trong Khiem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5546-457X, Li, Xuan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5655-8631 and Feeney, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7170-1830 (2024) A Timoshenko-Ehrenfest beam model for simulating Langevin transducer dynamics. Applied Mathematical Modelling, 131, pp. 363-380. (doi: 10.1016/j.apm.2024.04.019)

Nguyen, Lu Trong Khiem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5546-457X and Smyth, Noel Frederick (2023) Modulation theory for radially symmetric kink waves governed by a multi-dimensional sine-Gordon equation. Journal of Nonlinear Science, 33(1), 11. (doi: 10.1007/s00332-022-09859-w)

Nguyen, Lu Trong Khiem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5546-457X, Aydin, Roland Can and Cyron, Christian Johannes (2022) Accelerating the distance-minimizing method for data-driven elasticity with adaptive hyperparameters. Computational Mechanics, 70(3), pp. 621-638. (doi: 10.1007/s00466-022-02183-w)

Nguyen, Lu Trong Khiem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5546-457X and Smyth, Noel Frederick (2021) Dispersive shock waves for the Boussinesq Benjamin–Ono equation. Studies in Applied Mathematics, 147(1), pp. 32-59. (doi: 10.1111/sapm.12381)

Minh Nguyen‐Thanh, Vien, Nguyen, Lu Trong Khiem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5546-457X, Rabczuk, Timon and Zhuang, Xiaoying (2020) A surrogate model for computational homogenization of elastostatics at finite strain using high‐dimensional model representation‐based neural network. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 121(21), pp. 4811-4842. (doi: 10.1002/nme.6493)

Nguyen, Lu Trong Khiem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5546-457X, Rambausek, Matthias and Keip, Marc-André (2020) Variational framework for distance-minimizing method in data-driven computational mechanics. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 365, 112898. (doi: 10.1016/j.cma.2020.112898)

Rambausek, Matthias, Göküzüm, Felix Selim, Nguyen, Lu Trong Khiem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5546-457X and Keip, Marc-André (2019) A two-scale FE-FFT approach to nonlinear magneto-elasticity. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 117(11), pp. 1117-1142. (doi: 10.1002/nme.5993)

Göküzüm, Felix Selim, Nguyen, Lu Trong Khiem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5546-457X and Keip, Marc-André (2019) A multiscale FE-FFT framework for electro-active materials at finite strains. Computational Mechanics, 64, pp. 63-84. (doi: 10.1007/s00466-018-1657-7)

El, G.A., Nguyen, L.T.K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5546-457X and Smyth, N.F. (2018) Dispersive shock waves in systems with nonlocal dispersion of Benjamin-Ono type. Nonlinearity, 31(4), pp. 1392-1416. (doi: 10.1088/1361-6544/aaa10a)

Nguyen, Lu Trong Khiem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5546-457X and Keip, Marc-André (2018) A data-driven approach to nonlinear elasticity. Computers and Structures, 194, pp. 97-115. (doi: 10.1016/j.compstruc.2017.07.031)

Nguyen, Lu Trong Khiem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5546-457X (2016) Soliton solution of good Boussinesq equation. Vietnam Journal of Mathematics, 44(2), pp. 375-385. (doi: 10.1007/s10013-015-0157-8)

Nguyen, Lu Trong Khiem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5546-457X (2016) A numerical scheme and some theoretical aspects for the cylindrically and spherically symmetric sine-Gordon equations. Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, 36, pp. 402-418. (doi: 10.1016/j.cnsns.2015.12.008)

Nguyen, Lu Trong Khiem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5546-457X (2016) Wronskian formulation and Ansatz method for bad Boussinesq equation. Vietnam Journal of Mathematics, 44(3), pp. 449-462. (doi: 10.1007/s10013-015-0145-z)

Le, K.C. and Nguyen, L.T.K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5546-457X (2015) Slope modulation of ring waves governed by two-dimensional sine-Gordon equation. Wave Motion, 55, pp. 84-88. (doi: 10.1016/j.wavemoti.2014.12.005)

Nguyen, L.T.K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5546-457X (2015) Modified homogeneous balance method: Applications and new solutions. Chaos, Solitons and Fractals, 73, pp. 148-155. (doi: 10.1016/j.chaos.2015.01.017)

Le, K.C. and Nguyen, L.T.K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5546-457X (2015) Amplitude modulation of water waves governed by Boussinesq’s equation. Nonlinear Dynamics, 81(1-2), pp. 659-666. (doi: 10.1007/s11071-015-2017-1)

Le, Khanh Chau and Nguyen, Lu Trong Khiem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5546-457X (2014) Amplitude modulation of waves governed by Korteweg-de Vries equation. International Journal of Engineering Science, 83, pp. 117-123. (doi: 10.1016/j.ijengsci.2014.04.019)

Le, Khanh Chau and Nguyen, Lu Trong Khiem ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5546-457X (2013) Slope modulation of waves governed by sine-Gordon equation. Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, 18(7), pp. 1563-1567. (doi: 10.1016/j.cnsns.2012.11.015)

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Supervision

I am looking for students interested in applying physics-based methods to understand behaviors of materials across scales. Students can also collaborate with experimentalists in 3D printing, mechanical testing and material characterizing.

 

Students with a background in applied mathematics, computational science aor engineering are welcomed. Good coding ability will be a great asset.

Current areas of interest include

  1. Modelling and understanding metamaterials in quasi-static and dynamic regimes
  2. Modelling of nonlinear multicale materials with artificial neural networks
  3. Data-driven computational mechanics for constitutive-free physical and mechanical problems
  4. Reduced-order models for two-scale computational procedure for continuum body or structural engineering built upon multiscale materials

If you would like to discuss various Master projects and PhD opportunities, please feel free to contact me [khiem.nguyen@glasgow.ac.uk] with an academic Curriculum Vitae (CV).

Teaching

Prior to working at University of Glasgow, I have taught various subjects:

  1. Continuum mechanics and material modelling
  2. Energy methods in dynamics
  3. Spectral methods for partial differential equations and applications in mechanics