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Stephen ChildressProfessor of Mathematics ; Co-Director of the Applied Mathematics LaboratoryPh.D. 1961 (aeronautics and mathematics), California Institute of Technology; M.S.E. 1958 (aeronautical engineering), B.S.E. 1956 (aeronautical engineering), Princeton. Office Address: 251 Mercer Street New York, NY 10012 Phone: 212-998-3135 Fax: 212-995-4121 Personal Homepage: http://math.nyu.edu/faculty/childres/index.html Email: |
Areas of Research/Interest: Fluid dynamics, magnetohydrodynamics, asymptotic methods.
External Affiliations: Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), American Physical Society, Sigma Xi.
Fellowships/Honors: Golden Dozen Teaching Award, New York University, 1995; Royal Society Fellowship, 1989; Guggenheim Fellowship, 1976.
Selected Works:
Stretch, Twist, Fold: The Fast Dynamo. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol. 37. Springer-Verlag. 1995.
Nearly two-dimensional solutions of Euler's equations. Physics of Fluids, 30. 1987. 944-963.
New solutions of the kinematic dynamo problem. J. Math. Physics, 11. 1970. 3063-3076.