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mpaul@caltech.edu
Spiral Defect Chaos in Rayleigh Benard Convection (simulation)
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Spiral Defect Chaos in Rayleigh Benard Convection (simulation)
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People:
Professor Michael Cross
Professor Henry Greenside
Keng-Hwee Chiam
Biofunctionalized Nanoelectromechanical Systems and the Numerical Design of a Biodetector
People:
Professor Michael Cross
Professor Scott Fraser
Professor Michael Roukes and his group
Professor Raul Radovitzky
A useful link:
Caltech Computational Molecular Biology Initiative
Recent Publications:
M.R. Paul and M.C. Cross, The Response of Nanoscale Cantilevers Immersed in a Viscous Fluid, Phys. Rev. Lett., 92, 235501 (2004).
M.R. Paul, K.-H. Chiam, M.C. Cross, and P.F. Fischer, Rayleigh-Benard Convection in Large-Aspect-Ratio Domains, to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett. (2004).
M.R. Paul and I. Catton, The Relaxation of Two-Dimensional Rolls in Rayleigh-Benard Convection, Phys. Fluids, 16, 1262 (2004).
J.D. Scheel, M.R. Paul, M.C. Cross, and P.F. Fischer, Traveling Waves in Rotating Rayleigh-Benard Convection: Analysis of modes and mean flow, Phys. Rev. E, 68, 066216 (2003).
M.R. Paul, K.-H. Chiam, M.C. Cross, P.F. Fischer, and H.S. Greenside, Pattern Formation and Dynamics in Rayleigh-Benard Convection: Numerical Simulations of Experimentally Realistic Geometries, Physica D, 184, 114-126 (2003).
M.R. Paul, M. C. Cross, and P. F. Fischer, Rayleigh-Benard Convection with a Radial Ramp in Plate Separation, Phys. Rev. E, 66 046210 (2002).
K.-H. Chiam, M. R. Paul, M. C. Cross, and H. S. Greenside, Mean flow and spiral defect chaos in Rayleigh-Benard convection, Physical Review E 67 056206 (2003).
M. R. Paul, M. C. Cross, P. F. Fischer and H. S. Greenside, Power
law behavior of power spectra in low Prandtl number Rayleigh-Benard convection,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 87 154501-1 (2001).
Recent Presentations:
M.R. Paul and S. Fraser, BioNEMS: Biofunctionalized Nano Electro Mechanical Systems, DARPA BioFlips/Simbiosys Conference, Monterey CA, 10-12 September 2003.
M.R. Paul, Rayleigh-Benard Convection in Large-Aspect-Ratio Domains, Workshop on Patterns in Physics, The Fields Institute, Toronto Canada, 14 November 2003.
M.R. Paul, Spatiotemporal Dynamics, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California at Santa Barbara, Program on Pattern Formation in Physics and Biology, 2 October 2003.
M.R. Paul, Rayleigh-Benard Convection as metaphor for large-aspect-ratio nonequilibrium dynamics, Trends in Pattern Formation: From Amplitude Equations to Applications, Max-Planck-Institute for Complex Systems, Dresden Germany, 29 August 2003.
M.R. Paul, K.-H. Chiam, M.C. Cross, and P.F. Fischer, Coarsening in Rayleigh-Benard Convection, Rocky Mountain Workshop on Dynamics and Bifurcation of Patterns in Dissipative Systems, Ft. Collins, CO, 19-22 May 2003.
M.R. Paul, R. Radovitzky and M.C. Cross, The Numerical Design of a Nano-Biodetector, 55th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics, APS, Dallas, TX, 24-26 November 2002.
J.D. Scheel, M.R. Paul and M.C. Cross, Rotating Convection and Travelling Waves, 55th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics, APS, Dallas, TX, 24-26 November 2002.
R. Radovitzky, and M.R. Paul, A Numerical Approach for the Design of Nanomechanical Biodetectors, Fourteenth U.S. National Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Blacksburg, VA., 23-28 June 2002.
M. R. Paul, R. Radovitzky, D. Meiron, and M.C. Cross, The Numerical Design of a Nanoelectromechanical Biodetector, Poster presented at the Nanoscale/Molecular Mechanics Conference, Maui, HI., 12-17 May 2002.
M.R. Paul, R. Radovitzky, D. Meiron, M.C. Cross, BioNEMS: The Design of a Nano-Biodetector, Caltech Computational Molecular Biology Retreat, Buellton, CA., 25-27 April 2002.
K.-H. Chiam, M. R. Paul, M. C. Cross, and H. S. Greenside, Mean Flow and Spiral Defect Chaos in Rayleigh-Benard Convection, 54th Annual Meeting of the Division of Fluid Dynamics, APS, San Diego, CA, 18-20 November 2001.
M.R. Paul, M.C. Cross Rayleigh-Benard Convection with a Radial Ramp in Plate Separation (9.5 MB), Sixth SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems, Snowbird Utah, May 20-24 2001.
M.R. Paul New Insights from Simulations of Rayleigh-Benard Convection , Seminar given at the Duke Center for Nonlinear and Complex Systems, April 19 2001.
M.R. Paul, M.C. Cross and H.S. Greenside A Numerical Investigation of Low Prandtl Number Rayleigh-Benard Convection in Cylindrical Domains (5.1 MB), Poster presented at Dynamic Days 2001 Conference, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Jan 2-6 2001.
