Stephen Childress
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Stephen William Childress | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | California Institute of Technology Princeton University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics Applied Mathematics |
| Institutions | Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences New York University |
| Doctoral advisor | Paco Axel Lagerstrom |
Stephen William Childress is an American applied mathematician, author and professor emeritus at Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. He works on classical fluid mechanics, asymptotic methods and singular perturbations, geophysical fluid dynamics, magnetohydrodynamics and dynamo theory, mathematical models in biology, and locomotion in fluids. He is also a co-founder of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences's Applied Mathematics Lab. [1]
Published Books
- 1977: Mechanics of Swimming and Flying, online ISBN 9780511569593. [2]
- 1978: Mathematical models in developmental biology with Jerome K. Percus, ISBN-13: 978-1470410803, ISBN-10: 147041080X
- 1987: Topics in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics: Atmospheric Dynamics, Dynamo Theory, and Climate Dynamics, with M. Ghil. Softcover ISBN 978-0-387-96475-1, eBook ISBN 978-1-4612-1052-8. [3]
- 1995: Stretch, Twist, Fold: The Fast Dynamo with Andrew D. Gilbert, ISBN-13: 978-3662140147, ISBN-10: 3662140144
- 2009: An Introduction to Theoretical Fluid Mechanics, ISBN-10: 0-8218-4888-7, ISBN-13: 978-0-8218-4888-3. [4]
- 2012: Natural Locomotion in Fluids and on Surfaces Swimming, Flying, and Sliding. Edited with Anette Hosoi, William W. Schultz, Jane Wang. Hardcover ISBN 978-1-4614-3996-7, Softcover ISBN 978-1-4899-9916-0, eBook ISBN 978-1-4614-3997-4 [5]
- 2018: Construction of Steady-state Hydrodynamic Dynamos. I. Spatially Periodic Fields, ISBN-10 : 1378904729, ISBN-13 : 978-1378904725
Recognition
1976 Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada [6]
References
- ^ "Stephen Childress Department of Mathematics". math.nyu.edu.
- ^ Childress, Stephen (June 25, 1981). "Mechanics of Swimming and Flying". Cambridge University Press – via Cambridge University Press.
- ^ springer.com [1]
- ^ "Childress: An Introduction to Theoretical Fluid Mechanics". American Mathematical Society.
- ^ springer.com [2]
- ^ "Stephen Childress". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.