Numerical Simulation of Zonal Flows on Jupiter

Chung-Hsiang's uses inverse energy transport (from small scales to large) to understand the creation and maintenance of the 12 jet streams. A complete theory of the winds explains why both the velocity magnitude and spacing (between adjacent jet streams) varies with latitude.

Understanding the Latitudinal Temperature Variation on Jupiter

Chung-Hsiang constructs radiative-convective models to explain the nearly isothermal jovian atmosphere (i.e., why it isn't cold at the poles and hot at the equator?). The large jovian vortices are partly responsible since they are efficient in transporting heat.

Research Interests

Fluid Mechanics, Numerical Methods for Incompressible and Anelastic Flow, Spectral Methods, Finite Element Methods, Geophysical Flows, Perturbation Methods and Parallel Programming