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

  • 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