Yue-Kin Tsang   School of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics Newcastle University Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU United Kingdom OFFICE:  Herschel Annex, Level B3, E.12 PHONE:  +44 (0)191 208 3944 EMAIL:  yue-kin.tsang@newcastle.ac.uk

Magnetohydrodynamics and planetary dynamo Geophysical and astrophysical fluid dynamics Theory of turbulence Chaotic advection and mixing Chaos and nonlinear dynamics Research Projects Highlights Curriculum Vitae

Publications

1. Passive scalar conditional statistics in a model of random advection
   Emily S.C. Ching and Y.K. Tsang, Physics of Fluids 9, 1353 (1997)
   doi:10.1063/1.869249


2. Intermittency of a passive scalar advected by a quasifrozen velocity field
   Emily S.C. Ching, C.S. Pang, Y.K. Tsang and X.H. Wang, Physics of Fluids 11, 2263 (1999)
   doi:10.1063/1.870088


3. Nondestructive determination of the longitudinal chromatic dispersion distribution along an optical fiber
   P.K.A. Wai, F. Moldoveanu, H.H. Chen and Y.K. Tsang, Microwave and Optical Technology Letters 30, 312 (2001)
   doi:10.1002/mop.1300


4. Exponential decay of chaotically advected passive scalars in the zero diffusivity limit
   Yue-Kin Tsang, Thomas M. Antonsen, Jr. and Edward Ott, Physical Review E 71, 066301 (2005)
   doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.71.066301


5. Intermittency in two-dimensional turbulence with drag
   Yue-Kin Tsang, Edward Ott, Thomas M. Antonsen, Jr. and Parvez N. Guzdar, Physical Review E 71, 066313 (2005)
   (A more extensive version is available at arXiv:cont-mat/0503424)
   doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.71.066313


6. Bounding biomass in the Fisher equation
   Daniel A. Birch, Yue-Kin Tsang and William R. Young, Physical Review E 75, 066304 (2007)
   doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.75.066304


7. Multifractality and scale invariance in human heartbeat dynamics
   Emily S. C. Ching and Yue-Kin Tsang, Physical Review E 76, 041910 (2007)
   doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.76.041910


8. Near-inertial parametric subharmonic instability
   William R. Young, Yue-Kin Tsang and Neil J. Balmforth, Journal of Fluid Mechanics 607, 25 (2008)
   doi:10.1017/S0022112008001742


9. Energy–enstrophy stability of β-plane Kolmogorov flow with drag
   Yue-Kin Tsang and William R. Young, Physics of Fluids 20, 084102 (2008)
   doi:10.1063/1.2958321


10. Forced-dissipative two-dimensional turbulence: a scaling regime controlled by drag
    Yue-Kin Tsang and William R. Young, Physical Review E 79, 045308(R) (2009)
    doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.79.045308


11. Predicting the evolution of fast chemical reactions in chaotic flows
    Yue-Kin Tsang, Physical Review E 80, 026305 (2009)
    doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.80.026305


12. Non-universal velocity probability densities in forced two-dimensional turbulence: the effect of large-scale dissipation
    Yue-Kin Tsang, Physisc of Fluids 22, 115102 (2010)
    doi:10.1063/1.3504377


13. Scaling behavior in turbulent Rayleigh–Bénard convection revealed by conditional structure functions
    Emily S. C. Ching, Yue-Kin Tsang, T. N. Fok, Xiaozhou He and Penger Tong, Physical Review E 87, 013005 (2013)
    doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.87.013005


14. Ellipsoidal vortices in rotating stratified flows: beyond the quasi-geostrophic approximation
    Yue-Kin Tsang and David G. Dritschel, Journal of Fluid Mechanics 762, 196 (2015)
    doi:10.1017/jfm.2014.630


15. The effect of coherent stirring on the advection–condensation of water vapour
    Yue-Kin Tsang and Jacques Vanneste, Proceeding of the Royal Society A 473, 20170196 (2017)
    doi:10.1098/rspa.2017.0196


16. A stochastic Lagrangian basis for a probabilistic parameterization of moisture condensation in Eulerian models
    Yue-Kin Tsang and Geoffrey K. Vallis, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 75, 3925 (2018)
    doi:10.1175/JAS-D-18-0065.1


17. Characterising Jupiter's dynamo radius using its magnetic energy spectrum
    Yue-Kin Tsang and Chris A. Jones, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 530, 115879 (2020)
    doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2019.115879


18. Scaling of the geomagnetic secular variation timescales
    Yue-Kin Tsang and Chris A. Jones, Geophysical Journal International 239, 1 (2024)
    doi:10.1093/gji/ggae234


19. Low inertia reversing geodynamos
    Chris A. Jones and Yue-Kin Tsang, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors 360, 107303 (2025)
    doi:10.1016/j.pepi.2024.107303

Newcastle University

  MAS3091 Group Project Module, Autumn, 2024

University of Leeds

  MATH1710 Probability and Statistics I, Autumn, 2021

  MATH1400 Modelling with Differential Equations, Spring 2021

  MATH3476 Numerical Methods, Autumn 2019

  MATH1050 Calculus and Mathematical Analysis, Autumn 2018

  MATH1055 Numbers and Vectors, Autumn 2018

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

  PHYS4520 Physics in Meteorology, Spring 2011

University of Maryland, College Park

  PHYS276 Experimental Physics II: Electricity and Magnetism, Spring 2004

  PHYS262 General Physics II, Spring 2003

  PHYS622 Quantum Mechanics I, Fall 2001

  PHYS420 Principles of Modern Physics, Spring 2001

  PHYS374 Intermediate Theoretical Methods, Spring 2001

  PHYS715 Chaotic Dynamics, Spring 2000

  PHYS374 Intermediate Theoretical Methods, Spring 2000

  PHYS262 General Physics II, Fall 1999

  PHYS142 Principles of Physics II, Spring 1999

  PHYS141 Principles of Physics I, Fall 1998