Yue-Kin Tsang

Yue-Kin Tsang

Scripps Institution of Oceanography

University of California, San Diego

9500 Gilman Drive #0213

La Jolla, CA 92037

OFFICE: Keck Center, Rm 357
        8851 Shellback Way
        La Jolla, CA 92037
PHONE: 858-534-4560
   FAX: 858-534-8045
E-MAIL: yktsang@ucsd.edu

Research Interests

Movie: Two-dimensional Turbulence with Drag(3.0M)

Turbulence and chaotic mixing
Geophysical fluid dynamics
Chaos in dynamical systems
Mathematical biology
Scientific computation

Highlights of some recent research projects

Curriculum Vitae [HTML] [PDF]

Publications

Journal Papers

Emily S.C. Ching and Y.K. Tsang, Passive scalar conditional statistics in a model of random advection, Phys. Fluids 9 (5), 1353 (1997)

Emily S.C. Ching, C.S. Pang, Y.K. Tsang and X.H. Wang, Intermittency of a passive scalar advected by a quasifrozen velocity field, Phys. Fluids 11 (8), 2263 (1999)

P.K.A. Wai, F. Moldoveanu, H.H. Chen and Y.K. Tsang, Nondestructive determination of the longitudinal chromatic dispersion distribution along an optical fiber, Microw. Opt. Technol. Lett. 30 (5), 312 (2001)

Yue-Kin Tsang, Thomas M. Antonsen, Jr. and Edward Ott, Exponential decay of chaotically advected passive scalars in the zero diffusivity limit, Phys. Rev. E 71, 066301 (2005)

Yue-Kin Tsang, Edward Ott, Thomas M. Antonsen, Jr. and Parvez N. Guzdar, Intermittency in two-dimensional turbulence with drag, Phys. Rev. E 71, 066313 (2005) (A more extensive version is available at arXiv:cont-mat/0503424)

Daniel A. Birch, Yue-Kin Tsang and William R. Young, Bounding biomass in the Fisher equation, Phys. Rev. E 75, 066304 (2007) (Also selected to appear in the Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research 13, June 15, 2007, Issue 12)

Emily S. C. Ching and Yue-Kin Tsang, Multifractality and scale invariance in human heartbeat dynamics, Phys. Rev. E 76, 041910 (2007) (Also selected to appear in the Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research 13, November 1, 2007, Issue 14)

William R. Young, Yue-Kin Tsang and Neil J. Balmforth, Near-inertial parametric subharmonic instability, J. Fluid Mech. 607, 25 (2008)

Yue-Kin Tsang and William R. Young, Energy-enstrophy stability of β-plane Kolmogorov flow with drag, Phys. Fluids 20, 084102 (2008)

Yue-Kin Tsang and William R. Young, Forced-dissipative two-dimensional turbulence: a scaling regime controlled by drag, Phys. Rev. E 79, 045308(R) (2009)

Yue-Kin Tsang, Predicting the evolution of fast chemical reactions in chaotic flows, Phys. Rev. E 80, 026305 (2009)

Yue-Kin Tsang, Non-universal velocity probability densities in forced two-dimensional turbulence: the effect of large-scale dissipation, Phys. Fluids 22, 115102 (2010)

Amir Ali Ahmadi, Yue-Kin Tsang, Edward Ott and Thomas M. Antonsen, Jr., Relaxation toward homogeneity of chaotically mixed passive scalars: fractal dimensions and strange eigenmodes, Phys. Rev. E, to be submitted (2011)

Yue-Kin Tsang, Vortex statistics in forced-dissipative two-dimensional turbulence, J. Fluid. Mech., to be submitted (2011)

Yue-Kin Tsang and K. Shafer Smith, A test of local eddy diffusivity parametrizations in a two-layer isopycnal ocean basin model, preprint (2011)

Conference Presentations

P.K.A. Wai, H.H. Chen and Y.K. Tsang, Novel Chromatic Dispersion Determination Along an Optical Fiber, The Pacific Rim Conference on Laser and Electro-Optics, Chiba Japan, 1997

P.K.A. Wai, F. Moldoveanu, H.H. Chen and Y.K. Tsang, Determination of Optical Fiber Characteristics Using Solitons, Optical Society of America Annual Meeting/ILS-XIII, Long Beach USA, 1997

Yue-Kin Tsang, Edward Ott, Thomas M. Antonsen, Jr. and Parvez N. Guzdar, Two-Dimensional Turbulence with Drag: Wavenumber Energy Spectrum and Intermittency, International Conference on Chaos and Nonlinear Dynamics: Dynamics Days 2002, Baltimore, MD USA, 2002 [PDF]

Yue-Kin Tsang, Edward Ott, Thomas M. Antonsen, Jr. and Parvez N. Guzdar, Intermittency and Multifractality in Two-Dimensional Turbulence with Drag, International Conference on Chaos and Nonlinear Dynamics: Dynamics Days 2004, Chapel Hill, NC USA, 2004 (1st Place in Best Poster Award) [PDF]

Yue-Kin Tsang and K. Shafer Smith, Effective Diffusivities in a Two-layer, Isopycnal, Wind-driven Basin Model, Meeting on Eddies and Ocean Circulation, MIT, Cambridge, MA USA, 2005 [PDF]

Yue-Kin Tsang, Daniel Birch and William R. Young, Planktonic Population in a Spatially Variable Environment, International Conference on Chaos and Nonlinear Dynamics: Dynamics Days 2006, Bethesda, MD USA, 2006 [PDF]

Amir Ali Ahmadi, Jennifer Rieser, Yue-Kin Tsang, Edward Ott and Thomas M. Antonsen, Jr., Fractal Patterns in Chaotic Fluid Mixing, International Conference on Chaos and Nonlinear Dynamics: Dynamics Days 2006, Bethesda, MD USA, 2006 [PDF]

Yue-Kin Tsang and K. Shafer Smith, A Test of Local Effective Diffusivity Parameterization in a Two-Layer, Wind-Driven Isopycnal Primitive Equation Model, American Geophysical Union Ocean Sciences Meeting, Honolulu, HI USA, 2006 [PDF]

Yue-Kin Tsang, Thomas M. Antonsen, Jr. and Edward Ott, Exponential Decay of Chaotically Advected Passive Scalars in the Zero Diffusivity Limit, 6th Understanding Complex Systems Symposium, Urbana-Champaign, IL USA, 2006 [PDF]

Yue-Kin Tsang and Emily S. C. Ching, Multifractality in Detrended Human Heart Beat Increment, International Conference on Chaos and Nonlinear Dynamics: Dynamics Days 2007, Boston, MA USA, 2007 [PDF]

Yue-Kin Tsang and William R. Young, Enstrophy-constrained Stability Analysis of β-plane Kolmogorov Flow with Drag, American Physical Society March Meeting 2008, New Orleans, LA USA, 2008 [PDF]

Yue-Kin Tsang and William R. Young, Energy-Enstrophy Stability of β-plane Kolmogorov Flow with Drag, Workshop on Nonlinear Processes in Oceanic and Atmospheric Flows, Castro-Urdiales, Cantabria Spain, 2008 [PDF]

Yue-Kin Tsang and William R. Young, Energy Injection into Two-dimensional Turbulence: a Scaling Regime Controlled by Drag, American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics 61st Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX USA, 2008 [PDF]

Yue-Kin Tsang and William R. Young, What Determines the Progress of Fast Chemical Reactions in Chaotic Flows?, International Conference on Chaos and Nonlinear Dynamics: Dynamics Days 2009, San Diego, CA USA, 2009 [PDF]

Yue-Kin Tsang and William R. Young, Scaling of Energy Injection Rate in Two-dimensional Turbulence with Drag, Gordon Research Conference on Nonlinear Science, South Hadley, MA USA, 2009 [PDF]

Yue-Kin Tsang, Fast Chemical Reactions in Chaotic Flows: Predicting the Product Growth Rate, American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics 62st Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN USA, 2009 [PDF]

Yue-Kin Tsang, Fast Chemical Reactions in Chaotic Flows: Reaction Rate and Mixdown Time, IMA Annual Program Year Workshop: Transport and Mixing in Complex and Turbulent Flows, Minneapolis, MN USA, 2010 [PDF]