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 Emily S. C. Ching

 Professor

 (852) 39436305

ching(at)phy.cuhk.edu.hk

0000-0001-5114-5072

Room G5, G/F, Science Centre North Block

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 statistics in fluid turbulence
  • Effect of polymers in turbulence
  • Boundary layer profiles in Rayleigh-Bénard turbulence
  • Reconstructing networks from dynamics

Honours and Awards:

  • Vice-Chancellor's Exemplary Teaching Award, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2021
  • Faculty Exemplary Teaching Award, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2014 and 2021
  • Outstanding Referee, The American Physical Society, 2013
  • 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, Physical Review E (November 1, 2019 - present)
  • Editorial Board Member, Physical Review E ( January 1, 2017 - October 31, 2019)
  • Editorial Committee Member, Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics (January 1, 2016 - December 31, 2025)
  • Member, American Physical Society Fellowship Committee for the Topical Group on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics (2018)
  • Selection Committee Member, Francois Frenkiel Award for Fluid Mechanics, Division of Fluid Dynamics, American Physical Society (January 2016 - December 2017)
  • Selection Committee Member, Stanley Corrsin Award, American Physical Society (August 2012 - July 2014)
  • Physical Science Panel member (2007-2013), Hong Kong Research Grants Council

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
  • RGC Earmarked Grant: Effects of Polymer Additives on Heat Transport in Turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard Convection
  • RGC Earmarked Grant: Extracting Connectivity of a Network from Dynamics of Nodes
  • RGC Earmarked Grant: Reconstructing Complex Networks from Noisy Dynamics
  • RGC Earmarked Grant: Spatial Structure of Boundary Layers and Heat Transfer in Turbulent Rayleigh-Benard Convection

Selected Publications:

  • Emily S.C. Ching, H.S. Leung, Lukas Zwirner and Olga Shishkina, "Velocity and thermal boundary layer equations for turbulent Rayleigh-Benard convection", Physical Review Research 1, 033037 (2019).
  • Roberto Benzi and Emily S.C. Ching, "Polymers in fluid flows", Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics 9, 161-183 (2018).
  • Emily S.C. Ching and H.C. Tam, "Reconstructing links in directed networks from noisy dynamics", Physical Review E (Rapid Communications) 95, 010301(R) (2017).
  • Olga Shishkina, Susanne Horn, Sebastian Wagner, and Emily S.C. Ching, "Thermal boundary layer equation for turbulent Rayleigh–Bénard convection", Physical Review Letters 114, 114302 (2015).
  • Emily S.C. Ching, Pik-Yin Lai, and C. Y. Leung, "Reconstructing weighted networks from dynamics", Physical Review E (Rapid Communications) 91, 030801(R) (2015).
  • Emily S.C. Ching, Pik-Yin Lai, and C. Y. Leung, "Extracting connectivity from dynamics of networks with uniform bidirectional coupling", Physical Review E 88, 042817 (2013). Erratum, Physical Review E 89, 029901 (2014).
  • Emily S.C. Ching, Statistics and Scaling in Turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard Convection, (Springer, Singapore, 2014).
  • Emily S.C. Ching, Yue-Kin Tsang, T.N. Fok, Xiaozhou He, and Penger Tong, "Scaling behavior in turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection revealed by conditional structure functions", Physical Review E, 87, 013005 (2013).
  • Roberto Benzi, Emily S.C. Ching, Vivien W.S. Chu, "Heat transport by laminar boundary layer flow with polymers", J. Fluid Mech. 696, 330 (2012).
  • Roberto Benzi, Emily S.C. Ching, and E. De Angelis, "Effect of polymer additives on heat transport in turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection", Physical Review Letters 104, 024502 (2010).