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Stephen Childress

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Publications

50

Citations

4.3K

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32

Active since

1963

Affiliations

Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences(Current)

New York University

Applied Mathematics (United States)

Newcastle University

Columbia University

Stephen Childress is an author at Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences specializing in engineering, fluid mechanics, and aerodynamics.

Top concepts

EngineeringFluid DynamicsPhysicsAerodynamicsSpace EngineeringMagnetohydrodynamicsHydrodynamicsRheologyMechanicsAeroelasticity

Publications per year

1963–2021

50

Publications

50

Flexible filaments in a flowing soap film as a model for one-dimensional flags in a two-dimensional wind

Jun Zhang, Stephen Childress, Albert Libchaber et al. · Nature · 2000 · 678 citations

Two-dimensional Wind, Aeroacoustics, Engineering +8

Mechanics of Swimming and Flying

A. D. D. Craik, Stephen Childress · Biometrics · 1982 · 386 citations

Engineering, Fluid Mechanics, General Considerations 2 +17

Nonlinear aspects of chemotaxis

Stephen Childress, J. K. Percus · Mathematical Biosciences · 1981 · 361 citations

Nonlinear Aspects, Chemotaxonomy, Nonlinear Process +3

Pattern formation in a suspension of swimming microorganisms: equations and stability theory

Stephen Childress, M. Levandowsky, E. A. Spiegel · Journal of Fluid Mechanics · 1975 · 257 citations

Biology, Collective Movement, Pattern Formation +12

<i>Stretch, Twist, Fold: The Fast Dynamo</i>

Stephen Childress, Andrew D. Gilbert, Edward Ott · Physics Today · 1996 · 247 citations

Humanities, Experimental Nuclear Physics, Engineering +11

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