Emily S.C. Ching's Home Page

• Education
• Position
• Honour and Award
• Professional Activities
• Current Research Interests
• Research Grants
• Selected Publications
• Address/Telephone no./E-mail

Education

1. BSc, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
2. MPhil, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
3. PhD, University of Chicago, USA.

Position

Professor, Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Honour and Award

1. 1999 Achievement in Asia Award, The Overseas Chinese Physics Association.
2. 2004 Fellow, The Institute of Physics, UK
3. 2005 Fellow, The American Physical Society
4. 2007-08 Croucher Senior Research Fellowship

Professional Activities

1. Associate Editor, Journal of Turbulence (since 2003)
2. Adjunct Professor, State Key Laboratory for Studies of Turbulence and Complex Systems, Peking University (since Aug. 2004)

Current Research Interests

1. Scaling and structures in fluid turbulence
2. Turbulent drag reduction by polymers
3. Statistical biophysics

Research Grants

1. RGC Earmarked Grant: Statistics of Fluctuations in Turbulent Fluid Flows
2. RGC Earmarked Grant: Model Study of Fracture Propagation in Solids
3. RGC Earmarked Grant: Statistics and Scaling in Turbulence
4. RGC Earmarked Grant: Velocity and Temperature Statistics in Turbulent Convection
5. RGC Earmarked Grant: Turbulent Convection: Statistics, Large-scale Circulating Wind, and Heat Transport
6. RGC Earmarked Grant: A Shell-Model Study of Turbulence: Drag Reduction and Thermal Convection

Selected Publications

1. Emily S.C. Ching
   Scaling laws in the central region of confined turbulent thermal convection, Physical Review E 75, 056302 (2007).
   
   
2. Emily S.C. Ching, H. Guo, Xiao-Dong Shang, P. Tong, and Ke-Qing Xia
   Extraction of Plumes in Turbulent Thermal Convection, Physical Review Letters 93, 124501 (2004).
   
   
3. Roberto Benzi, Emily S.C. Ching, Nizan Horesh, and Itamar Procaccia
   Theory of Concentration Dependence in Drag Reduction by Polymers and of the Maximum Drag Reduction Asymptote, Physical Review Letters 92, 078302 (2004).
   
   
4. Emily S.C. Ching, Yoram Cohen, Thomas Gilbert and Itamar Procaccia
   Statistically Preserved Structures and Anomalous Scaling in Turbulent Active Scalar Advection, Europhysics Letters 60, 369-375 (2002).
   
   
5. Emily S.C. Ching
   Intermittency of Temperature Field in Turbulent Convection, Physical Review E 61 (Rapid Communications), R33-R36 (2000).
   
   
6. E.S.C. Ching, P.T. Leung, A. Maassen van den Brink, W.M. Suen, S.S. Tong, and K. Young
   Quasinormal-mode expansion for waves in open systems, Reviews of Modern Physics 70, 1545-1554 (1998).
   
   
7. Emily S.C. Ching
   Refined Similarity Hypothesis for a Randomly Advected Passive Scalar, Physical Review Letters 79, 3644-3647 (1997).
   
   
8. Emily S.C. Ching, J.S. Langer, and H. Nakanishi
   Dynamic Instabilities in Fracture, Physical Review Letters 76, 1087-1090 (1996).
   
   
9. E.S.C. Ching, P.T. Leung, W.M. Suen, and K. Young
   Quasinormal Mode Expansion for Linearized Waves in Gravitational Systems, Physical Review Letters 74, 4588-4591 (1995).
   
   
10. E.S.C. Ching, P.T. Leung, W.M. Suen, and K. Young
    Late-Time Tail of Wave Propagation on Curved Spacetime, Physical Review Letters 74, 2414-2417 (1995).
    
    
11. Emily S.C. Ching
    Probability Densities of Turbulent Temperature Fluctuations, Physical Review Letters 70, 283-286 (1993).
    
    

	Room 344, Science Centre North Block, Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong.
	Phone: (852) 2609 6305 Fax: (852) 2603 5204
E-mail: ching@phy.cuhk.edu.hk