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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 2011 - SIAM Fellow For contributions to understanding of phenomena in nonlinear and stochastic dynamical systems, turbulent transport, and mixing.

Overview

Charles R. Doering was affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research work was situated primarily within the fields of Engineering and Physics and Astronomy. The subfields they contributed to included Computational Mechanics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Global and Planetary Change, Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, and Atmospheric Science.

The main topics addressed in their research spanned Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Probabilistic and Robust Engineering Design, Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Model Reduction and Neural Networks, and Fractional Differential Equations Solutions.

Among their recent papers were the following:

  • Turning up the heat in turbulent thermal convection, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Steady Rayleigh-Bénard convection between no-slip boundaries, 2021, Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • Stability and Resilience of Transportation Systems: Is a Traffic Jam About to Occur?, 2021, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
  • Wall-to-wall optimal transport in two dimensions, 2020, Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • Absence of Evidence for the Ultimate State of Turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard Convection, 2020, Physical Review Letters

Frequent coauthors included:

  • David Goluskin
  • Matthew Olson
  • Baole Wen
  • Amin Ghadami
  • John M. Drake

They published regularly in the following venues:

  • Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
  • Physica D Nonlinear Phenomena

Charles R. Doering was recognized as a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2016. Earlier, in 2011, they were named a SIAM Fellow for contributions to the understanding of phenomena in nonlinear and stochastic dynamical systems, turbulent transport, and mixing.

Best Publications

  • Applied analysis of the Navier-Stokes equations

    Charles R. Doering;J. D. Gibbon

  • Nonequilibrium fluctuation-induced transport

    Charles R. Doering;Charles R. Doering;Werner Horsthemke;Werner Horsthemke;Jason Riordan;Jason Riordan

  • Resonant activation over a fluctuating barrier.

    Charles R. Doering;Jonathan C. Gadoua

  • Low-dimensional behaviour in the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation

    C R Doering;J D Gibbon;D D Holm;B Nicolaenko

  • Energy dissipation in shear driven turbulence.

    Charles R. Doering;Peter Constantin

  • Variational bounds on energy dissipation in incompressible flows. III. Convection

    Charles R. Doering;Peter Constantin

  • Statics and dynamics of a diffusion-limited reaction: Anomalous kinetics, nonequilibrium self-ordering, and a dynamic transition

    Daniel ben-Avraham;Daniel ben-Avraham;Martin A. Burschka;Martin A. Burschka;Charles R. Doering

  • Extinction Times for Birth-Death Processes: Exact Results, Continuum Asymptotics, and the Failure of the Fokker--Planck Approximation

    Charles R. Doering;Khachik V. Sargsyan;Leonard M. Sander

  • Interparticle distribution functions and rate equations for diffusion-limited reactions

    Charles R. Doering;Daniel ben-Avraham

  • Weak and strong solutions of the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation

    Charles R. Doering;John D. Gibbon;C. David Levermore

  • Variational bounds on energy dissipation in incompressible flows: Shear flow.

    Charles R. Doering;Peter Constantin

  • On the possibility of soft and hard turbulence in the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation

    M. Bartuccelli;P. Constantin;C. R. Doering;J. D. Gibbon

  • Cooperative behavior in periodically driven noisy integrate-fire models of neuronal dynamics

    Adi R. Bulsara;Timothy C Elston;Charles R. Doering;Steve B. Lowen

  • Infinite prandtl number convection

    Peter Constantin;Charles R. Doering

  • Energy dissipation in body-forced turbulence

    Charles R. Doering;Ciprian Foias

  • Optimal stirring strategies for passive scalar mixing

    Zhi Lin;Jean Luc Thiffeault;Charles R. Doering

  • Comparison of turbulent thermal convection between conditions of constant temperature and constant flux.

    Hans Johnston;Charles R. Doering

  • The 3D Navier-Stokes Problem

    Charles R. Doering

  • Interacting particles, the stochastic Fisher–Kolmogorov–Petrovsky–Piscounov equation, and duality

    Charles R. Doering;Carl Mueller;Peter Smereka

  • Thermally activated escape over fluctuating barriers

    U. Zürcher;C. R. Doering

Frequent Co-Authors

John D. Gibbon
John D. Gibbon Imperial College London
Peter Constantin
Peter Constantin Princeton University
Bruno Eckhardt
Bruno Eckhardt Philipp University of Marburg
Daniel ben-Avraham
Daniel ben-Avraham Clarkson University
Michael Renardy
Michael Renardy Virginia Tech
Jörg Schumacher
Jörg Schumacher Ilmenau University of Technology
Edriss S. Titi
Edriss S. Titi Texas A&M University
Alexander Kurganov
Alexander Kurganov Southern University of Science and Technology
Darryl D. Holm
Darryl D. Holm Imperial College London
Friedrich H. Busse
Friedrich H. Busse University of Bayreuth

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