Yue-Kin Tsang   Scripps Institution of Oceanography           University of California, San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive #213 La Jolla, CA 92093-0213 OFFICE: Keck Center, Rm 357         8851 Shellback Way  PHONE: 858-534-4560    FAX: 858-534-8045 E-MAIL: yktsang@ucsd.edu

• nonlinear fluid dynamics
• atmosphere and ocean dynamics
• nonlinear optics
• scientific computation

Publications

Journal Papers

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


2. 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) [PDF]


3. 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) [PDF]


4. 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) [PDF]


5. 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) [PDF] (A more extensive version is available at arXiv:cont-mat/0503424)


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


7. Emily S. C. Ching and Yue-Kin Tsang, Multifractality and Scale Invariance in Human Heartbeat Dynamics, Phys. Rev. E 76, 041910 (2007) [PDF] (Also selected to appear in the Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research 13, November 1, 2007, Issue 14)


8. William R. Young, Yue-Kin Tsang and Neil J. Balmforth, Near-Inertial Parametric Subharmonic Instability, J. Fluid Mech. 607, 25 (2008) [PDF]


9. Yue-Kin Tsang and William R. Young, Energy-Enstrophy Stability of β-plane Kolmogorov Flow with Drag, accepted by Phys. Fluids (2008) [PDF]


10. Yue-Kin Tsang and William R. Young, Energy Injection into Two-dimensional Turbulence: Scaling Laws, preprint (2008)

1. P.K.A. Wai, H.H. Chen and Y.K. Tsang, Novel chromatic dispersion determination along an optical fiber, Proceedings of The Pacific Rim Conference on Laser and Electro-Optics, Chiba Japan, 1997, p.183


2. P.K.A. Wai, F. Moldoveanu, H.H. Chen and Y.K. Tsang, Determination of optical fiber characteristics using solitons, Proceedings of OSA Annual Meeting/ILS-XIII, Long Beach USA, 1997, p.166


3. 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]


4. 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]


5. 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]


6. 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]


7. 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]


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


9. 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]


10. 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]


11. 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]


12. 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]

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Teaching (at University of Maryland, College Park)

PHYS 276 Experimental Physics II: Electricity and Magnetism, Spring 2004

PHYS 262 General Physics II, Spring 2003

PHYS 622 Quantum Mechanics I, Fall 2001

PHYS 420 Principles of Modern Physics, Spring 2001

PHYS 374 Intermediate Theoretical Methods, Spring 2001

PHYS 715 Chaotic Dynamics, Spring 2000

PHYS 374 Intermediate Theoretical Methods, Spring 2000

PHYS 262 General Physics II, Fall 1999

PHYS 142 Principles of Physics II, Spring 1999

PHYS 141 Principles of Physics I, Fall 1998