Charles Puelz 
Welcome! I am an Assistant Professor at the University of Houston and hold adjunct appointments at Baylor College of Medicine and Rice University.
My interests are in computational mathematics and physiology, with a focus on the cardiovascular system.
Here is my CV and my google scholar.
My twin brother David is faculty at the University of Texas at Austin. Here is his website.
Publications and preprints
- Parameter selection and optimization of a computational network model of blood flow in single-ventricle patients.
A.M. Taylor-LaPole, L.M. Paun, D. Lior, J.D. Weigand, C. Puelz, M.S. Olufsen.
submitted, 2024. - Fluid-structure interaction simulations for the prediction of fractional flow reserve in pediatric patients with anomalous aortic origin of a coronary artery.
C. Puelz, C.G. Rusin, D. Lior, S. Sachdeva, T.T. Doan, L.F. Eilers, D. Reaves-O’Neal, S. Molossi.
submitted, 2024. - Deformable registration of MRA images with 4D Flow images to facilitate accurate estimation of flow properties within blood vessels.
D.U. Lior, C. Puelz, J. Weigand, K.V. Montez, Y. Wang, S. Molossi, D.J. Penny, C.G. Rusin.
submitted, 2023. - Simulating cardiac fluid dynamics in the human heart.
M. Davey, C. Puelz, S. Rossi, M.A. Smith, D.R. Wells, G. Sturgeon, P. Segars, J.P. Vavalle, C.S. Peskin, B.E. Griffith
PNAS Nexus, 2024. - Computational framework for the generation of one-dimensional vascular models accounting for uncertainty in networks extracte
d from medical images.
M.A. Bartolo, A.M. Taylor-LaPole, D. Gandhi, A. Johnson, Y. Li, E. Slack, I. Stevens, Z. Turner, C. Puelz, D. Husmeier, M.S. Olufsen.
Journal of Physiology, 2024. - Anomalous aortic origin of a coronary artery in pediatric patients.
T. Doan, C. Puelz, C. Rusin, S. Molossi.
Current Pediatrics Reports, 2024. - Predicting the effects of surgically determined parameters on exercise tolerance in Fontan patients.
C. Kritpracha, B. Riviere, C. Puelz.
Medical Engineering and Physics, 2024. - A computational study of aortic reconstruction in single ventricle patients.
A.M. Taylor-LaPole, M.J. Colebank, J. Weigand, M.S. Olufsen, C. Puelz
Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology, 2022. - Semi-automated construction of patient-specific aortic valves from computed tomography images.
D. Lior, C. Puelz, C. Edwards, S. Molossi, B. Griffith, R. Birla, C. Rusin
Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 2022. - Fluid–structure interaction model of transcatheter aortic valve replacement in a patient-specific aortic root.
J.A. Brown, J.H. Lee, M.A. Smith, D.R. Wells, A. Barrett, C. Puelz, J.P. Vavalle, B.E. Griffith
Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 2022. - Optimal fenestration of the Fontan circulation.
Z. Ahmad, L.H. Jin, D.J. Penny, C. Rusin, C.S. Peskin, C. Puelz.
Frontiers in Physiology, 13, 2022. - Simulating liquid-gas interfaces and moving contact lines with the immersed boundary method.
M.Y. Li, D. Chin, C. Puelz, P. Sanaei.
Physics of Fluids, 34(5), 2022. - Computer simulation of surgical interventions for the treatment of refractory pulmonary hypertension.
S.W. Han, C. Puelz, C.G. Rusin, D.J. Penny, R. Coleman, C.S. Peskin.
Mathematical Medicine and Biology, 2022. - A reduced model for solute transport in compliant blood vessels with arbitrary axial velocity profile.
R. Masri, C. Puelz, B. Riviere.
International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 176, 2021. - A discontinuous Galerkin method for blood flow and solute transport in one dimensional vessel networks.
R. Masri, C. Puelz, B. Riviere.
Communications on Applied Mathematics and Computation, 4, pp. 500-529, 2022. - Models for plasma kinetics during simultaneous therapeutic plasma exchange and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.
C. Puelz, Z. Danial, J. Marinaro, J.S. Raval, B.E. Griffith, C.S. Peskin.
Mathematical Medicine and Biology, 38(2), pp. 255-271, 2021. - A physiological model of the inflammatory-thermal-pain-cardiovascular interactions during an endotoxin challenge.
A. Dobreva, R. Brady, K. Larripa, C. Puelz, J. Mehlsen, and M. Olufsen.
Journal of Physiology, 599(5), pp. 1459-1485, 2021. - Mathematical modeling of the impact of recirculation on exchange kinetics in tandem extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and therapeutic plasma exchange.
C. Puelz, J. Marinaro, Y.A. Park, B.E. Griffith, C.S. Peskin, J.S. Raval.
Journal of Clinical Apheresis, 36(1), pp. 6-11, 2021. - A sharp interface method for an immersed viscoelastic solid.
C. Puelz and B.E. Griffith.
Journal of Computational Physics, 409, 2020. - A priori error estimates of Adams-Bashforth discontinuous Galerkin methods for scalar nonlinear conservation laws.
C. Puelz and B. Riviere.
Journal of Numerical Mathematics, 26(3), pp. 151-172, 2018. - A computational study of the Fontan circulation with fenestration or hepatic vein exclusion.
C. Puelz, S. Acosta, B. Riviere, D. Penny, K. Brady, and C.G. Rusin.
Computers in Biology and Medicine, 89, pp. 405-418, 2017. - Cardiovascular mechanics in the early stages of pulmonary hypertension: a computational study.
S. Acosta, C. Puelz, B. Riviere, D. Penny, K. Brady, and C.G. Rusin.
Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology, 16(6), pp. 2093-2112, 2017. - Convergence of IPDG for coupled time-dependent Navier-Stokes and Darcy equations.
N. Chabaane, V. Girault, C. Puelz, and B. Riviere.
Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, 324, pp. 25-48, 2017. - Comparison of reduced models for blood flow using Runge-Kutta discontinuous Galerkin methods.
C. Puelz, B. Riviere, S. Canic, and C.G. Rusin.
Applied Numerical Mathematics, 115, pp. 114-141, 2017. - Numerical method of characteristics for one-dimensional blood flow.
S. Acosta, C. Puelz, B. Riviere, D. Penny, and C.G. Rusin.
Journal of Computational Physics, 294, pp. 96-109, 2015. - Spectral approximation for quasiperiodic Jacobi operators.
C. Puelz, M. Embree, and J. Fillman.
Integral Equations and Operator Theory, 82(4), pp. 533-554, 2015.