Becca Thomases
Assistant
Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Davis

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Office
Mathematical
Sciences Building, 3214
One Shields Ave.
University of
California
Davis, CA 95616
Phone: (530) 554
- 2988
Fax: (530) 752 -
6635
Current Teaching
Winter 2012: Complex Fluids with Applications to Biology
Fall 2011: 2011/2012 VIGRE RFG Complex Fluids
Fall 2011: Math 17C
Recent Teaching
Winter 2011: Math 16C
Winter 2011: Math 185A
Fall 2010: Math 201A
Publications
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An Analysis of the Effect of Stress Diffusion on the Dynamics of Creeping Viscoelastic Flow. J. Non-Newtonian Fluid Mech. 166 21-22, pp. 1221-1228, (2011). (pdf)
- (with Shelley M. and Thiffeault J.-L.)
A Stokesian Viscoelastic Flow: Transition to oscillations and
mixing. Physica D 240, vol. 20, pp. 1602-1614, (2011). (pdf)
- (with Balci, N., Doering, C., and Renardy M.)
Symmetric Factorization of the Conformation Tensor in Viscoelastic Fluid Models. J. Non-Newtonian Fluid Mech. 166, pp. 546-553, (2011).
(arxiv)
- (with Shelley, M.)
Transition to Mixing and Oscillations in a Stokesian Viscoelastic Flow. Physical Review Letters 103, 094501 (2009).
(pdf) See EPAPS repository for simulations.
- (with Shelley, M.) Emergence of Singular Structures in Oldroyd-B Fluids. Phys. Fluids, 19, no. 10,
(2007). (pdf)
- (with Metcalfe, J.) Elastic waves in exterior domains,
Part II: Global existence with a null structure. Int. Math. Res. Not.
(2007) rnm034-43. (pdf)
- (with Sideris,
T.) Global Existence for 3D
Incompressible Isotropic Elastodynamics.
Comm. Pure Appl.
Math. 60 (2007) no. 12, 1707 - 1730.(pdf)
- (with Sideris,
T.) Local Energy Decay for Solutions of
Multi-Dimensional Isotropic Symmetric Hyperbolic Systems. J. Hyperbolic
Differ. Equ. 4 (2006)
673-690. (pdf)
- (with Morawetz,
C.S.) A Decay Theorem for Some Symmetric
Hyperbolic Systems. J. Hyperbolic Differ. Equ.
3 (2006) 475- 480. (pdf)
- (with Sideris,
T.) Global Existence For 3D
Incompressible Isotropic Elastodynamics Via the
Incompressible Limit. Comm. Pure Appl. Math.
58 (2005) no. 6, 750-788. (pdf)
- (with Sideris,
T. and Wang, D.)
Long Time Behavior of
Solutions to the 3D Compressible Euler Equations with Damping Comm.
Partial Differential Equations 28 (2003), no. 3-4,
796-816. (pdf)
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Last revised 12/2/11