Dr. Yao CHEN

School of Space Science and Physics

Shandong University at Weihai

Weihai, Shandong, China  264209

Tel: +86-631-5673638

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Mobile: 13863071803

Email: yaochen@sdu.edu.cn

 

Current Position

Professor, School of Space Science and Physics, Shandong Univ. at Weihai, 2007- pres.

Co-Director, Institute of Space Science, Shandong Univ., 2008-pres.

 

Educational Background

2001(9)-2004(2)

Predoctoral Fellow, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA)

1999(9)-2004(4)

Ph.D. in Space Physics, Univ. Sci. & Technol. of China (USTC)

1997(9)-1999(7)

M.S. in Space Physics, USTC

1993(9)-1997(7)

B. S. in Space Physics, USTC

 

Employment History

2008(5)-pres.

Co-Director, Institute of Space Science, Shandong Univ.

2007(1)-pres.

Professor, School of Space Science and Physics,

Shandong Univ. at Weihai

2005(4)-2005(7)

Visiting Scientist, SSP Division, Harvard-Smithsonian CfA

2004(4)-2007(1)

Associate Professor, School of Earth and Space Science, USTC

 

Research Interests

heating and acceleration of corona and solar wind plasmas, physics of solar eruptions, space weather science, plasma physics

 

 

Teaching Experience

Introduction to Plasma Physics (2007, 2008)

Introduction to Solar-Terrestrial Physics (2005, 2006)

 

 

Professional Societies

Regular member: AAS (SPD), AGU, COSPAR, AOGS,

Committee Member for Space Weather Science, Chinese Geophysical Society (2007 - )

 

 

Honors

2006  Elected in Program for New Century Excellent Talents in

Universities, Ministry of Education of China

2006  Young Faculty Career Award, USTC Alumni Foundation

2006  Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award of China

2005  Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award of Chinese

 Academy of Sciences

2001-2004 Predoctoral Fellowship, Harvard-Smithsonian CfA

2001  QiuShi Scholarship

2000  Award in Memory of C. C. Cheng, Beijing Astron. Obs.

 

 

Main Publications

  1. Chen, Y., Y. Q. Hu, and S. J. Sun, Catastrophic eruption of magnetic flux rope in the corona and solar wind with and without magnetic reconnection, the Astrophysical Journal, 665, 1421-1427, 2007.
  2. Chen, Y., Y. Q. Hu, and L. D. Xia, Two energy release processes for CMEs: MHD Catastrophe and Magnetic Reconnection, Advances in Space Research, 40(12), 1780-1786, 2007.
  3. Chen, Y., G. Q. Li, and Y. Q. Hu, Force balance analysis of a coronal magnetic flux rope in equilibrium or eruption, the Astrophysical Journal, 649, 1093, 2006.
  4. Chen, Y., X. H. Chen, and Y. Q. Hu, Catastrophe of coronal flux rope in unsheared and sheared bipolar magnetic fields, the Astrophysical Journal, 644, 587, 2006.
  5. Chen, Y., Reproducing the UVCS/SOHO measurements in the slow wind source region at solar minimum, Advances in Space Research, 36, 1461-1467, 2005.
  6. Chen, Y., Velocity shear induced transition of magnetohydrodynamic to kinetic Alfven waves, Physics of Plasmas, 12, 052110, doi: 10.1063/1.1899664, 2005.
  7. Chen, Y., and X. Li, An ion-cyclotron resonance driven three-fluid model of the slow wind near the Sun, the Astrophysical Journal (letters), 609:L41-L44, 2004.
  8. Chen, Y., R. Esser, L. Strachan, and Y. Q. Hu, Stagnated outflow of O+5 ions in the source region of the slow solar wind at solar minimum, the Astrophysical Journal, 602:415-421, 2004.
  9. Chen, Y., R. Esser, and Y. Q. Hu, Numerical modeling of the halo electrons in the fast solar wind, Journal of Geophysical Research, 108(A10), 1371, doi:10.1029/2003JA009957, 2003.
  10. Chen, Y., R. Esser, and Y. Q. Hu, Formation of minor ion charge states in the fast solar wind: roles of differential flow speeds of ions of the same element, the Astrophysical Journal, 582:467-474, 2003.
  11. Chen, Y., R. Esser, and Y. Q. Hu, A theoretical model for O+5/ O+7 ions in the fast solar wind, Journal of Geophysical Research, 107(A11), 1368, doi:10.1029/2002JA009341, 2002.
  12. Chen, Y., and Y. Q. Hu, Effect of flow tube geometry on solar wind properties, Astrophysics and Space Science, 282(2), 447-460, 2002.
  13. Chen, Y., and Y. Q. Hu, A two-dimensional Alfvén wave-driven solar wind model, Solar Physics, 199, 371-384, 2001.
  14. Chen, Y., Z. Y. Li, W. Liu, and Z. D. Shi, Solitary kinetic Alfvén waves in the inertial limit region, Physics of Plasmas, 7(1), 371-374, 2000.
  15. Sun, S. J., Hu, Y. Q., and Y. Chen, Influence of photospheric magnetic flux distribution on coronal flux rope catastrophe, the Astrophysical Journal (letter), 654, L167-170, 2007.
  16. Li, J. W., Y. Chen (corresponding author), and Z. Y. Li, On the non-modal self-heating phenomenon in shear flows, Physics of Plasmas, 13, 042101, 2006.
  17. Li, J.W., Y. Chen, and Z. Y. Li, Velocity shear induced wave transformations in the magnetopause boundary layer, Chinese Journal of Geophysics, 2006(1).

18.    Chen Y., Multi-fluid solar wind models, Ph. D. Thesis, University of Science and Technology of China, 2004.

  1. Hu, Y. Q., S. R. Habbal, Y. Chen, and X. Li, Are coronal holes the only source of fast solar wind at solar minimum?, Journal of Geophysical Research, 108(A10), 1377, doi:10.1029/2002JA009776, 2003.
  2. Esser R., O. Lie-Svendsen, R. Edgar, and Y. Chen, Observational and theoretical constraints on the heating and acceleration of the fast solar wind, AIP Conference Proceedings Volume 679, Proceedings of the Tenth International Solar Wind Conference, doi:10.1063/1.1618588, p.249, 2003.
  3. Duan, S. P., Z. Y. Li, and Y. Chen, Solitary kinetic Alfvén waves in the inertial limit region with low-beta plasma, Chinese Journal of Geophysics, 46 (3): 295-298, 2003.
  4. Li, Z. Y., S. P. Duan, Y. Chen, and B. L. Ma, The influence of comet passage on the magnetosphere, Chinese Astronomy and Astrophysics, 25(3), 381-389, 2001.

 

Invited Talks

1．Y. Chen, Force balance analysis of Equilibrium and Catastrophic Eruption of Coronal Magnetic Flux Rope, The international space weather conference, Macau, 2005.

2．Y. Chen, and Zh. Peng, Theoretical studies on heavy ions in the slow wind from quiescent streamer edges, COSPAR (D2.3/E3.3), Beijing, 2006.

3．Y. Q. Hu, and Y. Chen, Diagnosis of energy source of CMEs by the Kuafu mission: MHD catastrophe and magnetic reconnection, COSPAR (D2.1/E3.1), Beijing, 2006.

4. Y. Chen, S. J. Sun and Y. Q. Hu, Catastrophic eruption of magnetic flux rope in the corona and solar wind with and without magnetic reconnection, Session ST6-10 From CMEs to BBFs, the fourth Asia and Oceania Geophysics Society (AOGS) meeting, Bangkok, 2007.