Refereed Conference Papers:

1. Nader, J.-R, S.-P. Zhu and P. Cooper, On the efficiency of Oscillating Water Column (OWC) devices in converting ocean wave energy to electricity under weakly nonlinear waves, 31^st OMAE2012, Paper 84271, Rio de Janiero, Brazil.

2. Nader, J.-R, S.-P. Zhu, P. Cooper and B. Stappenbelt, A Finite Element Model For Efficiency Of A Moored Floating OWC Device, 30^th OMAE2011, Paper 49502, 2011, Netherland.

3. Stappenbelt, B., M. Fiorentini, P. Cooper, S.-P. Zhu and J.R. Nader, System Identification of a Floating Oscillating Water Column Wave Energy Converter, 30^th OMAE2011, Paper 49532, 2011, Netherland.

4. Zhu, S.-P. and G.-H. Lian, Pricing Variance Swaps with Stochastic Volatility, The 2009 International Conf. of Financial Engineering, London, UK, July, 2009, Vol. II, 1359-1364.

5. Kim, J.-H., J.-W. Lee and S.-P. Zhu, A multi-scale model with stochastic elasticity, Bachelier Finance Society World Congress 2010, Toronto, Canada.

6. Zhang, J. and S.-P. Zhu, A hybrid finite difference method for valuing American options, The 2009 Int. Conf. of Financial Engineering, London, UK, July, 2009, Vol. II, 1331-1336.

7. Mitchell, L. and S.-P. Zhu, Linear diffraction and radiation of surface waves by a hollow suspended cylindrical shell, Proceedings of The Nick Newman Symposium on Marine Hydrodynamics, Estoril, Portugal, OMAE2008-57171 in CD-ROM, 2008 (ISBN 0-7918-3821-8). Conference Information: 27th International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, JUN 15-20, 2008 Estoril, PORTUGAL Source: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 27TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON OFFSHORE MECHANICS AND ARCTIC ENGINEERING - 2008, VOL 6   Pages: 579-585   Published: 2008

8. Zhu, S.-P., Pricing American Options - an Important Fundamental Research in Pricing Financial Derivatives, The 2nd International Workshop on Intelligent Finance, 2007, Cheng Du, China (as a keynote speaker).

9. Zhu, S.-P, J. Zhang and B. Hon, Numerical Valuation of American Puts on a Dividend Paying Asset , Financial systems engineering IV, Vol. 9, Global-Link Publisher, Hong Kong London Tokyo, 2006, 211-220.

10. Zhang Z.-R., H. Liu, S.-P. Zhu, and F. Zhao, Application of CFD in Ship Engineering Design Practice and Ship Hydrodynamics, The Conference of Global Chinese Scholars on Hydrodynamics, July, 2006, Shanghai, China, 315-322.

11. Zhu, S.-P., A Closed-form Exact Solution for the Value of American Put and its Optimal Exercise Boundary, Proceedings of The 3^rd SPIE International Symposium, May, 2005, Austin, Texas, USA, 186-199 (an invited speaker).

12. Zhu, S.-P. Calculating the optimal exercise boundary of American put options with an approximation formula, Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Intelligent Finance, 2004, Melbourne, Australia, 380-388.

13. Zhu, S.-P. and W. J. Francis, A Comparative Study of Two Analytical-Approximation Formulae and The Binomial Method for the Optimal Exercise Boundary of American Put Options, Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Intelligent Finance, 2004, Melbourne, Australia, 242-251.

14. Strunin, D. and S.-P. Zhu, A Simple Model For The Flow Near Floating Booms, ICIAM, 2003, Sydney, Australia.

15. Zhu, S.-P. and T.-P. Hung, A simple and non-iterative numerical approach for solving high-order non-linear ordinary differential equations, ICIAM, 2003, Sydney, Australia.

16. Zhu, S.-P., Modeling Diffraction and Refraction of Weakly Nonlinear Waves with the DRBEM Approach, BETECH2001, Florida, USA, 2001 381-392.

17. Zhu, S.-P., H.-W. Liu and T. Marchant, An efficient numerical model for diffraction and refraction of weakly nonlinear waves, EMD2000, Austin, USA, 2000, CDROM.

18. Liao, S.-J. and S.-P. Zhu, Solving the Liouville equation with the GBEM approach, BETECH'99, Las Vegas, USA, 1999, 407-416.

19. Strunin, D. and S.-P. Zhu, A Simple Model For The Flow Near Floating Booms, 13th ASCE Engineering Mechanics Division Conference, Baltimore, USA, 1999, CDROM.

20. Strunin, D. and S.-P. Zhu, An experimental study of the confinement of spilled oil by floating booms, Third International Conference on Hydrodynamics, Seoul, South Korea, 1998, 839-844.

21. Strunin, D. and S.-P. Zhu, A numerical model for the near floating booms used to collect spilled oil, HydroStorm, Adelaide, Australia, 1998, 141-145.

22. Zhu, S.-P., H.-W. Liu, and X.-P. Lu, A combination of the LTDRM and the ATPS in solving diffusion problems, Proceedings of the 8th biannial conference: Computational Techniques and Applications (CTAC 97), Adelaide, Australia, 1997, 783-790.

23. Chen, K. and S.-P. Zhu, An extension of the DRBEM Model for Wave Refraction and Diffraction, The first UK Conference on Boundary Integral Equation Methods, Leeds, UK, 1997,51-59.

24. Zhu, S.-P. and Y. Zhang, Evolution of Nonlinear Waves Over an Uneven Bottom, Second International Conference on Hydrodynamics, Hong Kong, 1996, Vol. 1, 361 - 366.

25. Zhu, S.-P., Selective Withdrawal from a Stratified Stream of Uniform Upstream Velocity, Australian Engineering Mathematics Conference'96, Sydney, Australia, 1996, 321-327.

26. Satravaha, P. and S.-P. Zhu, An Extension of the LTDRM to Some Highly Nonlinear Diffusion Equations, Proceeding of International Conference on Computational Engineering Science, Hawaii, USA, 1995, Vol. II, 2975-2980.

27. Satravaha, P. and S.-P. Zhu, An application of the LTDRM to non-linear transient heat conduction problems, Boundary Elements XVII, Computational Mechanics Publications, Southampton, Boston, 1995, 297-304.

28. Zhang, Y. and S.-P. Zhu, Scattering of Long Waves Around Conical Islands, Proceedings of the International Conference on Hydrodynamics, 1994, Wuxi, China, 395-401.

29. Zhu, S.-P., Modeling The Combined Refraction and Diffraction of Short Waves With The Dual Reciprocity Boundary Element Method, Proceedings of the International Symposium Waves-Physical and Numerical Modeling, Vancouver, Canada, 1994, Vol. II, 644-653.

30. Zhu, S.-P. and P. Satravaha, Combined Laplace Transform and the Dual Reciprocity Method for Solving Time-dependent Diffusion Equations with Nonlinear Source Terms, Boundary Elements XVI, Computational Mechanics Publications, Southampton, Boston, 1994, 93-100.

31. Zhang, Y., T. R. Marchant and S.-P. Zhu, Modeling Microwave Heating with DRBEM, Boundary Elements XVI, Computational Mechanics Publications, Southampton, Boston, 1994, 21-28.

32. Zhang, Y. and S.-P. Zhu, Exterior problems using dual reciprocity boundary element method, The Proceedings of the Sixth Biennial Conference on Computational Techniques and Applications (CTAC 93), Canberra, Australia, 1993, 484-492.

33. Zhu, S.-P., An Efficient Numerical Model for Wave Refraction and Diffraction, The Proceedings of the Sixth Biennial Conference on Computational Techniques and applications (CTAC 93), Canberra, Australia, 1993, 493-501.

34. Zhu, S.-P. and Y. Zhang, A New Approach for Solving Exterior Problems with the Dual Reciprocity Boundary Element Method, Boundary Elements XV\/, Elsevier Science Publishers, London, New York, 1993, Vol. 1, 359-373.

35. Yu, L. and S.-P. Zhu, Flow Simulation in Three-Dimensional Square Enclosure with Spacers, 11th Australian Conference of Fluid Mechanics, 1992, Vol. 1, 487-490.

Non-Refereed Conference Papers:

36. Marchant, T., S.-P. Zhu, and Y. Zhang, A Mathematical Model for Welding Two-Dimensional Slabs Using Microwave Energy, Proceeding of Heat and Mass Transfer conference, Brisbane, Australia, 1993, 15.1-15.6.

37. Satravaha, P., X. Lu, and S.-P. Zhu, A Combined Laplace Transform and Dual Reciprocity Boundary Element Formulation for Transient Heat Conduction Problems, Proceeding of Heat and Mass Transfer conference, Brisbane, Australia, 1993, 21.1-21.6.