Chung-Sang Ng
Biographical Sketch:
Dr. Ng joined the Geophysical Institute and the Physics Department of the University of Alaska Fairbanks in 2008. His main areas of research are theoretical and computational plasma physics, with applications in space and fusion plasmas. He has worked on a wide range of problems in these areas, including MHD turbulence, heating of the solar corona and solar wind, magnetic reconnection, Landau damping and BGK modes, field-line resonances in ionosphere/magnetosphere, void formation in dusty plasmas, hydrodynamic singularities, free-electron laser, mode conversion in fusion plasmas, and radiation in classical electrodynamics.
Present Research Interests:
- Theoretical/Computational Plasma Physics, with Applications in Space and Fusion Plasmas
- MHD Turbulence
- Heating of The Solar Corona
- Heating of The Solar Wind
- Landau Damping
- BGK Modes
- Magnetic Reconnection
- Dusty Plasmas
- Field-Line Resonances in Ionosphere/Magnetosphere
- Hydrodynamic Singularities
- Free-Electron Laser
- Mode Conversion in Fusion Plasmas
- Classical Electrodynamics
Professional Memberships and Awards:
- Honors
- 1994 - The Outstanding Research Award, Physics Department, Auburn University (for the best research by a student in that year)
- 1990 - The First Year Graduate Physics Award, Physics Department, Auburn University (for the best academic performance)
- Memberships
- Phi Kappa Phi
- The American Physical Society
- American Geophysical Union
Positions Held:
- (2008 – Present) Associate Professor, University of Alaska Fairbanks
- (2006 – 2008) Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Maryland University College
- (2003 – 2008) Research Assistant Professor, University of New Hampshire
- (2002 – 2003) Associate Research Scientist, University of Iowa
- (1996 – 2002) Assistant Research Scientist, University of Iowa
- (1994 – 1996) Research Investigator, University of Iowa
- (1989 – 1994) Research/Teaching Assistant, Auburn University
- (1988 – 1989) Full-time Teaching Assistant, Chinese University of Hong Kong
- (1986 – 1988) Graduate Teaching Assistant, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Selected Publications:
- C. S. Ng, S. J. Soundararajan, and E. Yasin, Electrostatic Structures in Space Plasmas: Stability of Two-dimensional Magnetic Bernstein-Greene-Kruskal Modes, submitted to AIP Conf. Proc. [http://arxiv.org/abs/1106.4073] (2011).
- A. R. Soto Chavez, A. Bhattacharjee, and C. S. Ng, Whistler Amplification: A Free Electron Laser in the Earth's Magnetosphere, submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett. (2011).
- C. S. Ng, L. Lin, and A. Bhattacharjee, High-Lundquist Number Scaling in Three- Dimensional Simulations of Parker’s Model of Coronal Heating, submitted to Astrophys. J. [http://arxiv.org/abs/1106.0515] (2011).
- C. S. Ng, and S. Ragunathan, High-Lundquist Number Resistive MHD Simulations of Turbulent Magnetic Reconnection with Secondary Island Formation and Enhanced Reconnection Rate, ASP Conference Series, in press, [http://arxiv.org/abs/1106.0521], (2011).
- C. S. Ng, A. Bhattacharjee, D. Munsi, P. A. Isenberg, and C. W. Smith, The Effect of Magnetic Turbulence Energy Spectra and Pickup Ions on the Heating of the Solar Wind, AIP Conf. Proc., 1302, 174 [http://arxiv.org/abs/1106.0528] (2010).
- C. S. Ng, L. Lin, and A. Bhattacharjee, Three-Dimensional Simulations of the Parker’s Model of Solar Coronal Heating: Lundquist Number Scaling due to Random Photospheric Footpoint Motion, ASP Conference Series, 429, 201 (2010).
- C. S. Ng and A. Bhattacharjee, Response to “Comment on ‘Weakly collisional Landau damping and three-dimensional Bernstein-Greene-Kruskal modes: New results on old problems’”, Phys. Plasmas 17, 054701 (2010).
- C. S. Ng, A. Bhattacharjee, D. Munsi, P. A. Isenberg, and C. W. Smith, Kolmogorov versus Iroshnikov-Kraichnan spectra: Consequences for ion heating in the solar wind, J. Geophys. Res., 115, A02101 (2010).
- X. H. Deng, M. Zhou, S. Y. Li, W. Baumjohann, M. Andre, N. Cornilleau, O. Santolı ́k, D. I. Pontin, H. Reme, E. Lucek, A. N. Fazakerley, P. Decreau, P. Daly, R. Nakamura, R. X. Tang, Y. H. Hu, Y. Pang, J. Büchner, H. Zhao, A. Vaivads, J. S. Pickett, C. S. Ng, X. Lin, S. Fu, Z. G. Yuan, Z. W. Su, and J. F. Wang, Dynamics and waves near multiple magnetic null points in reconnection diffusion region, J. Geophys. Res., 114, A07216, doi:10.1029/2008JA013197 (2009).
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