DR. DAVID TING
PRESENT POSITION
Assistant Professor: Mechanical & Material Engineering, University of Windsor.
RESEARCH INTERESTS (including, but not limited to the following subjects):
Combustion: A better understanding on how a propagating flame interacts with turbulence is vital to the advancement of fundamental engineering sciences and the next-generation combustion engines.
MASc Projects: "The effect of piston shape on the performance of a 5.2 L SI engine: a numerical study", M. Ip,, in progress (Co-supervising with Dr. G.W. Rankin).
Fourth year Design Projects: "The effect of piston shape on the performance of a 5.2 L SI engine: an experimental study", P. Heidbuchel & P. Paplinski, in progress (Co-supervising with Dr. G.W. Rankin).
Turbulence / Vortex Dynamics: Further insight on the "unsolvable" turbulence may be attainable by systematic probing of the simplest turbulence, isotropic and homogeneous turbulence.
Fourth year Design Projects: "Generating isotropic, homogeneous turbulence in a closed vessel", A. Iskender & A.M. Lock, in progress.
Fluid-Structure Interactions: When a structure reacts to its surrounding flow stream, the reaction may be sensed downstream as well as upstream. In the presence of a nearby structure, one reaction may tangle with the other, resulting in coupled fluid-structure interactions which can be of significant practical importance.
Fourth year Design Projects: "The characteristics of the trailing vortices of highway trucks: a wind tunnel simulation", J.A. Ibrahim & N.J. Mazumbu, in progress.
SAMPLE RECENT PUBLICATIONS (1994 onward):
Refereed Journal Papers:
D.S-K. Ting, D.J. Wang, S.J. Price & M.P. Païdoussis, "An experimental study on the fluid elastic forces for two staggered circular cylinders in cross-flow", Journal of Fluids and Structures, in press.
D.S-K. Ting & M.D. Checkel, "The importance of turbulence intensity, eddy size and flame size in spark ignited, premixed flame growth", Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part D, Journal of Automobile Engineering, Vol. 211, 83-86, 1997.
D.S-K. Ting, "Temperature fluctuations measurements for transitional flow in a square channel", Experimental Heat Transfer, 9:357-370, 1996.
D.S-K. Ting & K.C. Cheng, "Relaminarization of developing turbulent flow in a 180o curved square channel: a study based on temperature fluctuation measurements", Experimental Heat Transfer, 9:267-285, 1996.
K.C. Cheng & D.S-K. Ting, "Note on thermocouple measurements for laminar-turbulent transition phenomena in pipe flow", Experimental Heat Transfer, 8:209-228, 1995.
M.D. Checkel, D.S-K. Ting & W.K. Bushe, "Flammability limits and burning velocity of ammonia / nitric oxide mixtures", Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries, 8(4):215-220, 1995.
W.T. Ashurst, M.D. Checkel & D.S-K. Ting, "The eddy structure model of turbulent flamelet propagation, the expanding spherical and steady planar cases", Combustion Science and Technology, Vol. 99, 51-74, 1994.
Refereed Conference Papers:
D.S-K. Ting, D.J. Wang, S.J. Price & M.P. Païdoussis, "The applicability of the quasi-steady assumption for two staggered circular cylinders in cross-flow", ASME 4th International Symposium on Fluid-Structure Interactions, Aeroelasticity, Flow-Induced Vibration & Noise, November 1997.
K.C. Cheng & D.S-K. Ting, "Laminar-turbulent transition for air flow in a square duct: a study using temperature fluctuations", Process, enhanced, and multiphase heat transfer. A Festschrift for A.E. Bergles, (editors: R.M. Manglik & A.D. Kraus), pp. 367-377, 1996.
D.S-K. Ting & M.D. Checkel, "The effects of turbulence on spark-ignited, ultra lean, premixed methane-air flame growth in a combustion chamber", 1995 SAE Fuels & Lubricants Meeting & Exposition, paper 952410.
D.S-K. Ting, M.D. Checkel & B. Johansson, "The importance of high-frequency, small-eddy turbulence in spark- ignited, premixed engine combustion", 1995 SAE Fuels & Lubricants Meeting & Exposition, paper 952409.
D.S-K. Ting, M.D. Checkel, R. Haley & P.R. Smy, "Early flame acceleration measurements in a turbulent spark- ignited mixture", 1994 SAE International Congress & Exposition, paper 940687.
Conference Papers:
M. Ip, D.S-K. Ting & G.W. Rankin, "The effects of piston shape on the performance of a 5.2 L SI engine", 1998 Spring Technical Meeting, The Combustion Institute, Canadian Section.
D.S-K. Ting & M.D. Checkel, "Combustion process in internal combustion engines: the development of spark-ignited, premixed turbulent flames in a combustion chamber", the Third Asian-Pacific International Symposium on Combustion and Energy Utilization, December 1995.
D.S-K. Ting & M.D. Checkel, "The early combustion process in a spark-ignition engine: preference for small-scale turbulence enhancement", the 15th Canadian Congress of Applied Mechanics, CANCAM 1995.
D.S-K. Ting & M.D. Checkel, "Spark-ignited, ultra lean, premixed methane-air flame propagation in a combustion chamber", 1995 Spring Technical Meeting, The Combustion Institute, Canadian Section.
D.S-K. Ting, M.D. Checkel & W.T. Ashurst, "Turbulent burning velocity: dependence upon flame size, flow length scale and velocity intensity", work-in-progress poster section, The Twenty-Fifth International Symposium on Combustion, August 1994.
D.S-K. Ting & M.D. Checkel, "Spark ignited flame propagation in a turbulent flow field", the Eleventh Canadian Symposium on Fluid Dynamics, June 1994.
D.S-K. Ting & M.D. Checkel, "Modelling turbulent flame propagation in a chamber", 1994 Spring Technical Meeting, The Combustion Institute, Canadian Section.
Other Publications:
D.S-K. Ting & M.D. Checkel, "TECHNICAL UPDATE: Turbulence in combustion engines", CSME Bulletin, pp. 4- 5, May 1994.
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