Emily S. C. CHING
Professor
Professor
Education:
- PhD, University of Chicago, USA
- MPhil, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- BSc, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Current Position:
- Professor, Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Research Interests:
- Scaling and structures in fluid turbulence
- Effect of polymers in fluid flows
Honours and Awards:
- Croucher Senior Research Fellowship, 2007-08
- Fellow, The American Physical Society, 2005
- Fellow, The Institute of Physics, UK, 2004
- Achievement in Asia Award, The Overseas Chinese Physics Association, 1999
Professional Activities:
- Associate Editor, Journal of Turbulence (since 2003)
- Adjunct Professor, State Key Laboratory for Studies of Turbulence and Complex Systems, Peking University (since Aug. 2004)
Research Grants:
- RGC Earmarked Grant: Statistics of Fluctuations in Turbulent Fluid Flows
- RGC Earmarked Grant: Model Study of Fracture Propagation in Solids
- RGC Earmarked Grant: Statistics and Scaling in Turbulence
- RGC Earmarked Grant: Velocity and Temperature Statistics in Turbulent Convection
- RGC Earmarked Grant: Turbulent Convection: Statistics, Large-scale Circulating Wind, and Heat Transport
- RGC Earmarked Grant: A Shell-Model Study of Turbulence: Drag Reduction and Thermal Convection
- RGC Earmarked Grant: Extending refined similarity ideas to understand anomalous scaling of a active scalar in turbulent convection
Selected Recent Publications:
- Roberto Benzi, Emily S.C. Ching, and E. De Angelis, "Effect of Polymer Additives on Heat Transport in Turbulent Rayleigh-Benard Convection", Physical Review Letters 104, 024502 (2010).
- Edan Lerner, Itamar Procaccia, Emily S.C. Ching, and H.G.E. Hentschel, "Relations between material mechanical parameters and interparticle potential in amorphous solids", Physical Review B 79, 180203(R) (2009).
- Emily S.C. Ching and T.C. Ko, "Ultimate-state scaling in a shell model for homogeneous turbulent convection", Physical Review E 78, 036309 (2008)
- Emily S.C. Ching and W.C. Cheng, "Anomalous scaling and refined similarity of an active scalar in a shell model of homogeneous turbulent convection", Physical Review E 77 (Rapid Communications), 015303(R) (2008).
- Emily S.C. Ching and Y.K. Tsang, "Multifractality and scale invariance in human heartbeat dynamics", Physical Review E 76, 041910 (2007). (Also selected for the November 1, 2007 issue of Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research.)
- Emily S.C. Ching, "Scaling laws in the central region of confined turbulent thermal convection", Physical Review E 75, 056302 (2007).
| Office: | Room G5, G/F, Science Centre North Block |
| Phone: | (852) 39436305 |
| E-mail: | ching@phy.cuhk.edu.hk |