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Silas D. Alben

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#1884

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#4540

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#1098

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Silas D. Alben's Degrees

PhD Mathematics Stanford University
Masters Mathematics Stanford University
Bachelors Mathematics Stanford University

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According to Wikipedia, Silas D. Alben is an American mathematician. His is Professor of Mathematics and Director of the Applied and Interdisciplinary Mathematics Program at the University of Michigan. His research addresses problems from biology and engineering that can be studied with the tools of applied mathematics and continuum mechanics.

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Silas D. Alben's Published Works

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Foldable structures and the natural design of pollen grains (2010) (247)
Flapping states of a flag in an inviscid fluid: bistability and the transition to chaos. (2008) (230)
Drag reduction through self-similar bending of a flexible body (2002) (230)
How bumps on whale flippers delay stall: an aerodynamic model. (2008) (204)
Dynamics of freely swimming flexible foils (2011) (172)
Coherent locomotion as an attracting state for a free flapping body. (2005) (167)
Optimal flexibility of a flapping appendage in an inviscid fluid (2008) (142)
The mechanics of active fin-shape control in ray-finned fishes (2007) (131)
Edge effects determine the direction of bilayer bending. (2011) (129)
How flexibility induces streamlining in a two-dimensional flow (2004) (104)
Simulating the dynamics of flexible bodies and vortex sheets (2009) (100)
Wake-mediated synchronization and drafting in coupled flags (2009) (96)
Passive robotic models of propulsion by the bodies and caudal fins of fish. (2012) (86)
Intracellular localization of nanoparticle dimers by chirality reversal (2017) (75)
Efficient kinematics for jet-propelled swimming (2013) (50)
Coordination of multiple appendages in drag-based swimming (2010) (48)
The flapping-flag instability as a nonlinear eigenvalue problem (2008) (46)
Functional morphology of the fin rays of teleost fishes (2013) (45)
Passive and active bodies in vortex-street wakes (2009) (40)
Using computational and mechanical models to study animal locomotion. (2012) (39)
Flag flutter in inviscid channel flow (2014) (38)
Erratum: Flapping states of a flag in an inviscid fluid: Bistability and the transition to chaos (Physical Review Letters (2008) 100 (074301)) (2008) (32)
Effects of shape and stroke parameters on the propulsion performance of an axisymmetric swimmer (2012) (29)
On the swimming of a flexible body in a vortex street (2009) (27)
Optimizing snake locomotion in the plane (2013) (27)
Optimization of two- and three-link snakelike locomotion. (2012) (26)
Stability and scalability of piezoelectric flags (2015) (20)
An implicit method for coupled flow-body dynamics (2008) (19)
Self-assembly of flat sheets into closed surfaces. (2007) (16)
The attraction between a flexible filament and a point vortex (2012) (16)
Regularizing a vortex sheet near a separation point (2010) (16)
A comparison of two approaches to the optimal positioning of a new product in an attribute space (1979) (16)
Large-amplitude membrane flutter in inviscid flow (2018) (15)
Optimizing snake locomotion on an inclined plane. (2013) (14)
Efficient sliding locomotion with isotropic friction. (2019) (13)
The dynamics of vortex streets in channels (2015) (11)
Flapping propulsion using a fin ray (2011) (11)
Fluid–structure interactions with applications to biology (2016) (11)
Interactions between vortices and flexible walls (2011) (11)
Collapse and folding of pressurized rings in two dimensions. (2008) (10)
Flexible sheets falling in an inviscid fluid (2010) (10)
Improved convection cooling in steady channel flows (2017) (8)
Bending of bilayers with general initial shapes (2011) (7)
Optimal flexibility in flapping appendages (2008) (6)
Efficient sliding locomotion of three-link bodies. (2020) (6)
Dynamics and locomotion of flexible foils in a frictional environment (2017) (6)
Collective locomotion of two-dimensional lattices of flapping plates. Part 2. Lattice flows and propulsive efficiency (2020) (6)
Eigenmode analysis of membrane stability in inviscid flow (2020) (6)
Semi-implicit methods for the dynamics of elastic sheets (2019) (6)
Collective locomotion of two-dimensional lattices of flapping plates. Part 1. Numerical method, single-plate case and lattice input power (2021) (5)
Dynamics of tethered membranes in inviscid flow (2021) (5)
Interfacing mathematics and biology: a discussion on training, research, collaboration, and funding. (2012) (5)
Model Problems for Fish Schooling (2012) (5)
Optimal convection cooling flows in general 2D geometries (2016) (5)
Self-similar bending in a flow: The axisymmetric case (2010) (4)
Optimizing a fin ray for stiffness (2010) (4)
Packing of elastic rings with friction (2021) (4)
Swimming in a vortex street (2009) (4)
Passive Vibration Control of Flexible Hydrofoils using Piezoelectric Material (2015) (3)
Packings of a charged line on a sphere. (2008) (3)
Drag reduction by self-similar bending and a transition to forward flight by a symmetry-breaking instability (2004) (3)
Intermittent sliding locomotion of a two-link body. (2020) (3)
Efficient bending and lifting patterns in snake locomotion (2022) (2)
Enhanced Forced Convection Heat Transfer using Small Scale Vorticity Concentrations Effected by Flow Driven, Aeroelastically Vibrating Reeds (2016) (2)
Bistability and the transition to chaos in a flapping flag model (2007) (2)
Dynamics of flags over wide ranges of mass and bending stiffness (2021) (2)
Author Correction: Intracellular localization of nanoparticle dimers by chirality reversal (2018) (1)
Inviscid simulations of interacting flags. (2010) (1)
Optimizing snake locomotion in the plane. I. Computations (2013) (1)
Numerical study of vorticity-enhanced heat transfer (2013) (1)
Optimizing snake locomotion in the plane. II. Large transverse friction (2013) (1)
Inverse design of self-oscillatory gels through deep learning (2022) (1)
Efficient kinematics for jet-propelled swimming 101 (2013) (1)
A cascade of length scales in elastic rings under confinement. (2008) (1)
Vortex-filament interactions (2011) (0)
Membrane flutter in three-dimensional inviscid flow (2022) (0)
The Coupled Motion of Flexible Bodies and Vortex Sheets in Inviscid Flows (2006) (0)
Rationalizing the bumps on whale flippers using basic aerodynamic theory (2006) (0)
Optimal 2D convection cooling flows (2017) (0)
Transition to branching flows in optimal planar convection (2023) (0)
Falling Flexible Sheets (2010) (0)
Author Correction: Intracellular localization of nanoparticle dimers by chirality reversal (2018) (0)
Large-amplitude membrane dynamics in inviscid flow (2019) (0)
Fluid–structure interactions with applications to biology (2016) (0)
Optimizing snake locomotion on an inclined plane 2 (2014) (0)
Stability and scalability of piezoelectric flag (2015) (0)
Collision of a flexible filament with a point vortex (2012) (0)
Efficient sliding locomotion of three-link bodies with inertia. (2022) (0)
Inviscid Simulations of Interacting Flags and Falling Sheets (2009) (0)
Bending Leaves and Flapping Flight: Transitions in Flow-Body Interaction Problems (2005) (0)
Designing elastic sheets to self-assemble in a viscous environment. (2005) (0)
Flag flapping in a channel (2015) (0)
Testing a room temperature RF transition unit with a hydrogen maser polarimeter. (1997) (0)
Folding of Pollen Grains (2008) (0)
Acknowledgment of Reviewers, 2018 (2018) (0)
Color scales that are effective in both color and grayscale (2012) (0)
van Nierop, Alben, and Brenner Reply: (2008) (0)
How an Elastic Body Reduces its Drag (2002) (0)
How Vertical Flapping Induces Horizontal Flight (2004) (0)
Bending of bilayers with general initial shapes (2014) (0)
LONG-TIME SIMULATIONS OF VORTEX SHEET DYNAMICS (2017) (0)
Fin ray design and use in fish swimming (2006) (0)
Intracellular localization of nanoparticle dimers by chirality reversal (2017) (0)

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