Chung K. Law
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Chung K. Law | |
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| Born | 31 August 1947 |
| Alma mater | University of Alberta University of Toronto University of California San Diego |
| Known for | Combustion Law limit |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Princeton University University of California Davis Northwestern University General Motors Research Laboratories |
| Thesis | Studies on droplet combustion (1973) |
| Doctoral advisor | Forman A. Williams |
Chung King Law (Chinese: 羅忠敬;born 31 August 1947;also known as Ed Law) is a Chinese-born American scientist and a Robert H. Goddard professor at Princeton University.[1] He is a specialist in combustion science.
Law received his bachelors and masters degree, respectively from University of Alberta and University of Toronto. He completed his PhD in 1973 under the supervision of Forman A. Williams at University of California San Diego.
He worked at the General Motors Research Laboratories for two years and was a postdoctoral researcher at Princeton University under William Sirignano before joining the faculty at the Northwestern University in 1976. He joined the faculty of University of California, Davis in 1984 and left in 1988, to join the faculty at Princeton University, where he is currently the Robert H. Goddard professor.[2]
Law has made several contributions to the combustion field, especially, in connection with droplet dynamics and burning, laminar flame speed and stretched flames, chemical mechanism reduction.
Books
- Chung K. Law (2006). Combustion Physics. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521154215.
