Stephen Childress

About

Stephen Childress is a Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus at NYU Courant. His research interests include classical fluid mechanics, asymptotic methods, geophysical fluid dynamics, magnetohydrodynamics, dynamo theory, mathematical models in biology, and locomotion in fluids. His current work focuses on vorticity growth in Euler flows of incompressible fluids in three dimensions.

Education

• Ph.D., Aeronautics and Mathematics, California Institute of Technology, USA, 1961
• M.S.E., Aeronautical Engineering, Princeton University, USA, 1958
• B.S.E., Aeronautical Engineering, 1956

Selected publications

• S. Childress, "New Solutions of the Kinematic Dynamo Problem", J. Math Physics 11 (1970)
• S. Childress and J.K. Percus, "Nonlinear Aspects of Chemotaxis", Math. Biosciences 56 (1981)
• S. Childress, "Nearly two-dimensional solutions of Euler's equations", Phys. Fluids 30 (1987)
• S. Childress, "Growth of anti-parallel vorticity in Euler flows", Physica D 237 (2008)