Alexander Frenkel
Professor Emeritus
afrenkel@as.ua.edu
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Education:
- M.S. – Novosibirsk State University, USSR, 1969
- Ph.D. – The USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 1977
Research Focus:
- Applied Math., Theor. Physics
Specialty Fields:
- Fluid Dynamics
- General Relativity
- Plasma Instabilities
Selected Publications
- Halpern, D., and Frenkel, A.L., Nonlinear evolution, travelling waves, and secondary instability of sheared-film flows with insoluble surfactants, J. Fluid Mech., 594: 125-156, 2008.
- Frenkel, A.L., Nonlinear theory of strongly undulating thin films flowing down vertical cylinders, Europhysics Letters, 18 (7): 583-588, April 1992.
- Babchin, A.J., Frenkel, A.L., Levich, B., and Sivashinsky, G.I., Nonlinear saturation of Rayleigh-Taylor instability in thin films, Phys. Fluids, 26: 3159-3161, 1983.
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Frenkel, A., and Brecher, K., Horizon-free universe, Phys. Rev. D, 26: 368-372, 1982.
