Christopher Tong

List of Selected Publications and Abstracts

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Theoretical Modeling of Hydrodynamics

Low-order models in the form of coupled gyrostats, applied to 2D and 3D Rayleigh-Benard convection (including either spontaneously-generated or externally-forced vertical shear), magnetoconvection, and other hydrodynamic flows.

Journal Publications (Refereed)

C. Tong and A. Gluhovsky, 2008: Gyrostatic extensions of the Howard-Krishnamurti model of thermal convection with shear. Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, 15: 71-79.
C. Tong and A. Gluhovsky, 2002: Energy-conserving low-order models for three-dimensional Rayleigh-Benard convection. Physical Review E: Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, 65: 046306.
A. Gluhovsky, C. Tong, and E. Agee, 2002: Selection of modes in convective low-order models. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 59: 1383-1393.
A. Gluhovsky and C. Tong, 1999: The structure of energy conserving low-order models. Physics of Fluids, 11: 334-343.
- Errata: p. 342, Fig. 3 caption, line 3: replace “Eq. (26)” with “Eq. (28)”.

Conference Papers (Unrefereed)

A. Gluhovsky, C. Tong, and E. Agee, 2001: Energy conserving low-order models for potential vorticity dynamics and convection with shear. American Meteorological Society 13th Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics, 4-8 June 2001, Breckenridge, Colorado, 117-121.
A. Gluhovsky and C. Tong, 2001: Low-order models of atmospheric dynamics with physically sound behavior. IUTAM Symposium on Advances in Mathematical Modelling of Atmosphere and Ocean Dynamics, Proceedings, 2-7 July 2000, Limerick, Ireland; P. F. Hodnett (ed.). Fluid Mechanics and its Applications, vol. 61. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Kluwer, 147-152.
- IUTAM = International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics.
A. Gluhovsky and C. Tong, 2000: Low-order models of a sheared convective boundary layer. American Meteorological Society 14th Symposium on Boundary Layer and Turbulence, 7-11 August 2000, Aspen, Colorado, 206-209.

Conference Abstracts (Unrefereed)

C. Tong and A. Gluhovsky, 2002: An energy-conserving low-order model for 3D thermal convection. Annual March Meeting of the American Physical Society, 18-22 March 2002, Indianapolis, Indiana, A27.5. Bulletin of the American Physical Society, 47 (1), 107.
A. Gluhovsky and C. Tong, 2001: Physically motivated Galerkin approximations in geophysical fluid dynamics. American Physical Society 54th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics, 18-20 November 2001, San Diego, California, DL 7. Bulletin of the American Physical Society, 46 (10), 82.
C. Tong and A. Gluhovsky, 2001: Modeling fluid flow with gyrostats. Indiana Section of the Mathematical Association of America Fall 2001 Meeting, 20 October 2001, West Lafayette, Indiana.
A. Gluhovsky and C. Tong, 1999: Nonlinear models in geophysical fluid dynamics in the form of coupled gyrostats. Twenty-fourth General Assembly of the European Geophysical Society, 19-23 April 1999, The Hague, Netherlands. Geophysical Research Abstracts, 1, 810.
C. Tong and A. Gluhovsky, 1999: Gyrostatic low-order models in fluid dynamics. Centennial Meeting of the American Physical Society, 20-26 March 1999, Atlanta, Georgia, YC06.12. Bulletin of the American Physical Society, 44 (1), 1826.
A. Gluhovsky and C. Tong, 1998: The structure of energy conserving low-order models in geophysical fluid dynamics. The Rossby-100 Symposium, 8-12 June 1998, Stockholm, Sweden, 1, 128-130.

Letters to the Editor

A. Gluhovsky and C. Tong, 2014: Comments on “Analogies of ocean/atmosphere rotating fluid dynamics with gyroscopes: teaching opportunities”. [Response to Thomas W.N. Haine and D.A. Cherian.] Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 95: 445-446.
A. Gluhovsky and C. Tong, 2012: Comments on “Modeling of chaotic motion of gyrostats in resistant environment on the base of dynamical systems with strange attractors”. [Response to Anton V. Doroshin.] Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, 17: 3112-3113.

Principal collaborators

Dr. Alexander B. Gluhovsky, Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, and Dept. of Statistics, Purdue University.
Dr. Ernest M. Agee, Professor Emeritus and former Head, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Purdue University.
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Dr. Suzanne M. Zurn-Birkhimer, Associate Director, Women in Engineering Program; and courtesy Associate Professor, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Purdue University.
Dr. Daniel T. Dawson II, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Purdue University.