Chung Law

Chung K. Law is the Robert H. Goddard Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University. His research interests include combustion, fluid mechanics, heat transfer, and fuel chemistry, with applications in propulsion, energy, alternative fuels, material synthesis, and the environment. His work focuses on topics such as laminar and turbulent flames, high pressure combustion, flame instabilities, droplet combustion, and microgravity combustion. He is also involved in studies of droplet impaction processes. Law has held academic positions at Northwestern University and the University of California at Davis before joining Princeton in 1988. He is a Fellow of several prestigious societies, including the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the American Physical Society.

Chung K. Law is a professor at Princeton University specializing in combustion, fluid mechanics, chemical kinetics, and heat and mass transfer. His research focuses on combustion physics, including the study of laminar flame speeds, droplet vaporization, and the dynamics of stretched flames. He has contributed significantly to the development of kinetic models for hydrocarbon and oxygenated fuels, as well as the analysis of droplet collision behavior and the structure of premixed flamelets. His work addresses challenges in incorporating realistic fuel chemistry into large-scale computations and explores nonlinear effects in flame speed determination. Law's research has implications for improving combustion efficiency and understanding fundamental combustion processes.