Stephen Paul Childress

Construction of steady-state hydrodynamic dynamos. I. Spatially periodic fields

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Natural Locomotion in Fluids and on Surfaces: Swimming, Flying, and Sliding (The IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications)

This volume developed from a Workshop on Natural Locomotion in Fluids and on Surfaces: Swimming, Flying, and Sliding which was held at the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) at the University of Minnesota, from June 1-5, 2010.  The subject matter ranged widely from observational da...

Stretch, Twist, Fold: The Fast Dynamo (Lecture Notes in Physics Monographs)

The study of planetary or solar magnetic fields explains natural magnetism as a phenomenon of magnetohydrodynamics. The kinematic dynamo theory, especially the fast dynamo treated in this volume, is somewhat simpler but still it presents formidable analytical problems related to chaotic dynamics, fo...

An Introduction to Theoretical Fluid Mechanics (Courant Lecture Notes)

This book gives an overview of classical topics in fluid dynamics, focusing on the kinematics and dynamics of incompressible inviscid and Newtonian viscous fluids, but also including some material on compressible flow. The topics are chosen to illustrate the mathematical methods of classical fluid d...

Mechanics of Swimming and Flying (Cambridge Studies in Mathematical Biology)

This book provides a clear and concise summary of the fluid dynamics of the locomotion of living organisms. The biological phenomena described in detail range from the swimming of bacteria and fish to the flying of insects and birds. The breadth of treatment requires the study of two basic fluid-dyn...

The Crystal Skulls: Astonishing Portals to Man's Past

What unknown hands carved these mysterious skulls perhaps over 12,000 years ago? Do they really have the power of life and death? In 1927, while searching for the lost civilization of Atlantis, archeologists discovered in the ruins of a Mayan city a perfect replica of a human skull, exquisitely carv...

Natural Locomotion in Fluids and on Surfaces. Swimming, Flying, and Sliding

An Introduction to Theoretical Fluid Mechanics (Courant Lecture Notes) by Stephen Childress published by American Mathematical Society, Courant Institute o (2009)

Mechanics of Swimming and Flying

Mechanics of Swimming and Flying

Some Mathematical Problems in Biology

Some Mathematical Questions in Biology

Stretch, Twist, Fold : The Fast Dynamo