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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - SIAM Fellow For contributions to nonlinear dynamics, particularly through his experimental work.
  • 1998 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1995 - Fluid Dynamics Prize, American Physical Society (APS)
  • 1992 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1991 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1983 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1977 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation Also approved by the Division on Chemical Physics, the Division on Fluid Dynamics, the Forum on International Physics, the Forum on Education, and the Forum on Industrial and Applie

Overview

Harry L. Swinney is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their research spans several fields with a particular focus on engineering and materials science.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Material Dynamics and Properties
  • Granular flow and fluidized beds
  • Sports Dynamics and Biomechanics
  • ICT in Developing Communities
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
  • Coastal and Marine Dynamics

Subfields of study relevant to their work include:

  • Materials Chemistry
  • Computational Mechanics
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Information Systems
  • Oceanography

Recent papers published by Harry L. Swinney include:

  • "Homogeneous Crystallization in Cyclically Sheared Frictionless Grains," 2020, Physical Review Letters
  • "Dependence of Internal Wave Bolus Transport on Pycnocline Thickness," 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • "Advancing Access to Cutting-Edge Tabletop Science," 2022, Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics
  • "Homogeneous crystallization in cyclically sheared frictionless grains," 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • "Crystalline and polycrystalline regimes in a periodically sheared 2-dimensional system of disks," 2024, arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequent publication venues include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Physical Review Letters
  • Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics
  • Geophysical Research Letters

Collaborators frequently working with Swinney are:

  • Charles Radin
  • Weiwei Jin
  • Corey S. O'Hern
  • Mark D. Shattuck
  • Michael F. Schatz

Harry L. Swinney has been recognized with several awards over their career, including:

  • SIAM Fellow, 2009, for contributions to nonlinear dynamics, particularly through experimental work
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 1998
  • Fluid Dynamics Prize from the American Physical Society (APS), 1995
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 1992
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1991
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1983
  • Fellow of American Physical Society (APS), 1977

Best Publications

  • Determining Lyapunov exponents from a time series

    Alan Wolf;Jack B. Swift;Harry L. Swinney;John A. Vastano

  • Independent coordinates for strange attractors from mutual information.

    Andrew M. Fraser;Harry L. Swinney

  • Flow regimes in a circular Couette system with independently rotating cylinders

    C. David Andereck;S. S. Liu;Harry L. Swinney

  • Hydrodynamic instabilities and the transition to turbulence

    Harry L. Swinney;Jerry P. Gollub

  • Transition from a uniform state to hexagonal and striped Turing patterns

    Q. Ouyang;Harry L. Swinney

  • Localized excitations in a vertically vibrated granular layer

    Paul B. Umbanhowar;Francisco Melo;Harry L. Swinney

  • Observation of anomalous diffusion and Lévy flights in a two-dimensional rotating flow.

    T. H. Solomon;Eric R. Weeks;Harry L. Swinney

  • Collective motion and density fluctuations in bacterial colonies

    Hepeng Zhang;Avraham Be'er;E.-L. Florin;Harry L. Swinney

  • Onset of Turbulence in a Rotating Fluid

    Jerry P. Gollub;Harry L. Swinney

  • Experimental observation of self-replicating spots in a reaction–diffusion system

    Kyoung Jin Lee;William D. McCormick;John E. Pearson;Harry L. Swinney

  • HEXAGONS, KINKS, AND DISORDER IN OSCILLATED GRANULAR LAYERS

    Francisco Melo;Paul B. Umbanhowar;Harry L. Swinney

  • Instability in dynamic fracture

    Jay Fineberg;Steven P. Gross;Michael P Marder;Harry L Swinney

  • Dynamical instabilities and the transition to chaotic Taylor vortex flow

    P. R. Fenstermacher;Harry L. Swinney;J. P. Gollub

  • III Light Beating Spectroscopy

    H. Z. Cummins;H. L. Swinney

  • Instabilities and transition in flow between concentric rotating cylinders

    R. C. Di Prima;Harry L. Swinney

  • Transition to parametric wave patterns in a vertically oscillated granular layer

    Francisco Melo;Paul Umbanhowar;Harry L. Swinney

  • Pattern Formation by Interacting Chemical Fronts

    Kyoung J. Lee;W. D. McCormick;Qi Ouyang;Harry L. Swinney

  • Observation of a strange attractor

    J.-C. Roux;Reuben H. Simoyi;Harry L. Swinney

  • Resonant pattern formation in achemical system

    Valery Petrov;Qi Ouyang;Harry L. Swinney

  • Instability in the propagation of fast cracks

    Jay Fineberg;Steven P. Gross;M. Marder;Harry L. Swinney

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel I. Goldman
Daniel I. Goldman Georgia Institute of Technology
Michael P Marder
Michael P Marder The University of Texas at Austin
Charles Radin
Charles Radin The University of Texas at Austin
Jerry P. Gollub
Jerry P. Gollub Haverford College
Philip Morrison
Philip Morrison The University of Texas at Austin
Zhen-Su She
Zhen-Su She Peking University
Paul B. Umbanhowar
Paul B. Umbanhowar Northwestern University
Jay Fineberg
Jay Fineberg Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Shelley M. Payne
Shelley M. Payne The University of Texas at Austin
Michael Ghil
Michael Ghil École Normale Supérieure

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