Qi Ying
Assistant Professor


Environmental and Water Resources Division
Zachry Department of Civil Engineering
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843-3136

Phone: (979) 845-9709
Email: qying@civil.tamu.edu

 

Ph.D. Environmental Engineering, September 2004. University of California, Davis
B.S. Environmental Engineering, July 2000. Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

 

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Research Assistantships |Research |Publications| Current Projects |

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Research Assistantships (Updated, April 10, 2008)

None available at this time. Please check back often for possible openings.

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Research

Dr. Ying’s research on urban/regional air quality is focused on the following areas:

(1)    Urban/Regional air quality modeling – Advanced air quality models are used to study the emission, transportation, chemical transformation of airborne pollutants. Current research is focused on the study formation of secondary nitrate and organics under different emission, geographical and meteorological conditions to improve model predictions. Process analysis tools are incorporated into the air quality models to gain insights on the contribution of each simulated process to the overall pollutant concentrations.

 

(2)    Source apportionment of airborne particulate matter – Advanced source oriented air quality models are used to determine the source contributions to particulate matter and attribute the effect of different sources on visibility, climate change and human health. Correctly and efficiently determining the source contribution to particulate matter is important for policy makers to design efficient emission control strategies. 

 

(3)    Parallel computing - Clustered workstations running GNU/Linux (beowulf system) is used as a powerful and flexible computing environment for the air quality model simulations. More efficient parallel algorithms are developed to accelerate the air quality model calculation.

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This is the 35-node beowulf system current in operation. Each node contains a quad-core Intel Q6600, 2G of RAM and a 250G local hard drive. The nodes are connected through two stacked NETGEAR GS724TS gigabyte Ethernet switchers. The system is currently running x86_64 CentOS4.6. The blinking green, blue and red LEDs give an alien feeling and are most enjoyable when all the other light sources are turned off.

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Refereed Journal Publications

In Preparation

In Review

14.   Qi Ying and Michael Kleeman. 2008. Regional Transport of Particulate Matter in California with Source Contribution Analysis. Submitted.

Accepted/In Press

13.   Qi Ying, Jin Lu and Michael J. Kleeman. 2008. Modeling Air Quality during the California Regional Particulate Air Quality Study (CRPAQS) using the UCD/CIT Source Oriented Air Quality Model - Part III. Source Apportionment of Secondary and Total Airborne Particulate Matter.

12.   Qi Ying, Jin Lu, Paul Allen, Ajith Kaduwela and Michael J. Kleeman. 2008. Modeling Air Quality during the California Regional Particulate Air Quality Study (CRPAQS) using the UCD/CIT Source Oriented Air Quality Model - Part II. Source Apportionment of Primary Airborne Particulate Matter. [pdf]

11.   Qi Ying, Jin Lu, Paul Allen, Paul Livingstone, Ajith Kaduwela and Michael J. Kleeman. 2008. Modeling Air Quality during the California Regional Particulate Air Quality Study (CRPAQS) using the UCD/CIT Source Oriented Air Quality Model - Part I. Base Case Model Results. [pdf] Supplementary Material: [pdf]

Published

10. Qi Ying, Robert J. Griffin and Michael J. Kleeman. 2007. Verification of a Source-Oriented Externally Mixed Air Quality Model during a Severe Photochemical Smog Episode. Atmospheric Environment. 41, 1521-1538. [pdf]

9.    Michael J. Kleeman, Qi Ying and Mitchel J. Mysliwiec. 2007. Source pportionment of Secondary Organic Aerosol during a Severe Photochemical Smog Episode. Atmospheric Environment. 41(3), 576-591. [pdf]

8.    Jorn D. Herner, Qi Ying and Michael J. Kleeman. 2006. Dominant Mechanisms that Shape the Airborne Particle Size and Composition Distribution. Aerosol Science and Technology. 40(10), 827-844.[pdf]

7.    Qi Ying and Michael J. Kleeman. 2006. Regional Source Contribution to Secondary Particulate Matter in California Using a Three-Dimensional Source-Oriented Air Quality Model. Atmospheric Environment, 40(3), 736-752.[pdf]

6.    Michael J. Kleeman, Qi Ying and Ajith Kaduwela. 2005. Control Strategies for the Reduction of Airborne Particulate Nitrate in California’s San Joaquin Valley. Atmospheric Environment, 39(29), 5325-5341.[pdf]

5.    Tony Held, Qi Ying, Michael J. Kleeman, James J. Schauer and Matthew P. Fraser. 2005. A Comparison of the CIT/UCD Air Quality Model and the CMB Source-receptor Model for Primary Airborne Particulate Matter. Atmospheric Environment, 39(12), 2281-2297.[pdf]

4.   Qi Ying and Michael J. Kleeman. 2004. Efficient Source Apportionment of Airborne Particulate Matter Using an Internally Mixed Air Quality Model with Artificial Tracers, Environmental Science and Engineering (China), 1(1), 91-99. [pdf]

3.  Anthony E. Held, Qi Ying, Ajith Kaduwela and Michael J. Kleeman. 2004. Modeling Particulate Matter in the San Joaquin Valley with a Source-Oriented Externally Mixed Three Dimensional Photochemical Grid Model, Atmospheric Environment, 38(22), 3689 – 3711.[pdf]

2.  Qi Ying, Mitchell Mysliwiec, and Michael J. Kleeman. 2004. Source Apportionment of Visibility Impairment Using a Three-Dimensional Source-Oriented Air Quality Model, Environmental Science and Technology, 38 (4), 1089-1101.[pdf]

1.  Qi Ying and Michael J. Kleeman. 2003. Effects of Aerosol UV Extinction on the Formation of Ozone and Secondary Particulate Matter, Atmospheric Environment, 37 (36), 5047-5068.[pdf]

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Current Funded Projects

1. Source Apportionment of Airborne Particulate Matter and Ozone Precursors in Texas using a Source-Oriented 3D Mechanistic Air Quality Model. Funded by Texas Air Research Center (TARC), 2007-2009.

2. Regulating Traffic Flows under Air Quality Constrains in Metropolitan Areas. Funded by University Transportation Center for Mobility (UTCM), 2008-2009.

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Current Students

1.       Anupama Krishnan, MS student. Starting date: January 2008. Thesis topic: Source Apportionment of Airborne Particulate Matter in Texas.

2.       Sri Harsha Kota, MS student. Starting date: January 2008. Thesis topic: Photochemical Modeling of Air Quality to Support Traffic Congestion Mitigation

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Teaching 

CVEN 301 - Introduction to Environmental Science and Engineering (Fall 2007)
CVEN 607 - Engineering Aspects of Air Quality (Spring 2008)
CVEN 301 - Introduction to Environmental Science and Engineering (Fall 2008)

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Other Air Quality Related Classes in TAMU

Undergraduate Classes:

ATMO335            Atmospheric Thermal Dynamics

ATMO363            Introductions of Atmospheric Chemistry and Air Pollution

ATMO463            Air Pollution Meteorology

MEEN344             Fluid Mechanics

Graduate Classes

ATMO602            Quantitative methods for Atmospheric Sciences

ATMO613            Advanced Atmospheric Chemistry

ATMO635            Atmospheric Thermal Dynamics

ATMO661            Atmospheric Turbulence

MEEN477             Fluid Mechanics

MEEN678             Aerosol Mechanics

MATH602            Methods and Applications of Partial Differential Equations

CVEN688              Computational Fluid Dynamics

 

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