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Tipping Points

Members

Professor Brian Straughan

Leader of Work Package 3 in Tipping Points Research Project
Telephone: +44 (0) 191 33 43102
Room number: CM223

Contact Professor Brian Straughan (email at brian.straughan@durham.ac.uk)

Publications

Journal papers: academic

  • Straughan, B Tipping points in Cattaneo-Christov thermohaline convection. Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. 2011;467:7-18.
  • Straughan, B Green-Naghdi fluid with non-thermal equilibrium effects. Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. 2010;466:2021-2032.
  • Payne, LE & Straughan, B Decay for a Keller-Segel chemotaxis model. Studies in Applied Mathematics. 2009;123:337-360.
  • Hill, AA & Straughan, B Global stability for thermal convection in a fluid overlying a highly porous material. Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. 2009;465:207-217.
  • Mulone, G & Straughan, B Nonlinear stability for diffusion models in biology. SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics. 2009;69:1739-1758.
  • Hill, A. A. & Straughan, B. Poiseuille flow in a fluid overlying a porous medium. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 2008;603:137-149.
  • R. Quintanilla & B. Straughan Discontinuity waves in type III thermoelasticity. 2004.
  • J.I. Diaz & B. Straughan Global stability for convection when the viscosity\r\nhas a maximum. 2004.
  • M. Carr Penetrative convection in a superposed porous-medium-fluid layer via internal heating. 2004.
  • B. Straughan The energy method, stability, and nonlinear convection. 2004.
  • M. Carr A model for convection in the evolution of under-ice melt ponds. 2003.
  • F. Franchi & B. Straughan Continuous dependence and decay for the Forchheimer equations. 2003.
  • B. Straughan Hydrodynamic stability, the Chebyshev tau method and spurious eigenvalues. 2003.
  • D. Bourne (final year undergraduate project supervised by B.S. Straughan) Hydrodynamic stability, the Chebyshev tau method and spurious eigenvalues. 2003.
  • M. Carr & B. Straughan Penetrative convection in a fluid overlying a porous layer. 2003.
  • M. Carr Unconditional nonlinear stability for temperature dependent density flow in a porous medium. 2003.
  • B. Straughan Effect of property variation and modelling on convection\nin a fluid overlying a porous layer. 2002.
  • Quintanilla, R. & Straughan, B. Explosive instabilities in heat transmission. 2002.
  • Straughan, B. Global stability for convection induced by absorption of radiation. Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans. 2002;35:351-361.
  • Straughan, B. Sharp global nonlinear stability for temperature dependent viscosity convection. Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. 2002;458:1773-1782.
  • Franchi, F. & Straughan, B. A comparison of the Graffi and Kazhikov-Smagulov models for top heavy pollution instability. 2001.
  • Straughan, B. A sharp nonlinear stability threshold in rotating porous convection. Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical & Engineering Sciences. 2001;457:87-93.
  • L.E. Payne, J.F. Rodrigues & B. Straughan Effect of anisotropic permeability on Darcy's Law. 2001.
  • B. Straughan Porous Convection, the Chebyshev Tau Method, and Spurious Eigenvalues. 2001.
  • B. Straughan Surface tension driven convection in a fluid overlying\na porous layer. 2001.
  • Payne, L.E. & Straughan, B. A naturally efficient numerical technique for porous convection stability with non-trivial boundary conditions. 2000.
  • Quintanilla R. & Straughan, B. Growth and uniqueness in thermoelasticity. 2000.
  • Payne, L.E. & Straughan, B. Unconditional nonlinear stability in temperature - dependent viscosity flow in a porous medium. 2000.
  • Straughan B & L.E. Payne Unconditional nonlinear stability in temperature-dependent viscosity flow in a porous medium. Studies in Applied Mathematics 105 59-81. 2000.
  • Payne, L.E., Song J.C. & Straughan, B. Continuous dependence and convergence results for Brinkman and Forchheimer models with variable viscosity. 1999.
  • Payne, L.E. & Straughan, B. Convergence for the equations for a Maxwell fluid. 1999.
  • Payne, L.E. & Straughan, B. Convergence, continuous dependence and decay for the Brinkman--Forchheimer equations. 1999.
  • Straughan B & L.E. Payne Effect of errors in the spatial geometry for temperature dependent Stokes flow. J. Math. Pures et Appl. 78 609-632. 1999.
  • Payne, L.E. & Straughan, B. Effect of errors in the spatial geometry for temperature dependent Stokes flow. 1999.
  • Payne, L.E. & Straughan, B. Analysis of the boundary condition at the interface between a viscous fluid and a porous medium and related modeling questions. 1998.
  • Payne, L.E. & Straughan, B. Structural stability for the Darcy equations of flow in porous media. 1998.
  • Straughan, B. & D.W. Walker Multi component diffusion and penetrative convection. 1997.
  • K. Hutter & Straughan, B. Penetrative convection in thawing subsea permafrost. 1997.
  • Straughan, B. & Walker, D.W. Anisotropic porous penetrative convection. 1996.
  • Dongarra, J.J., Straughan, B. & Walker, D.W. Chebyshev tau - QZ algorithm methods for calculating spectra of hydrodynamic stability problems. 1996.
  • Payne, L.E. & Straughan, B. Stability in the initial-time geometry problem for the Brinkman and Darcy equations of flow in porous media. 1996.
  • F. Franchi & Straughan, B Structural stability for the Brinkman equations of porous media. 1996.
  • Straughan, B. & Walker, D.W. Two very accurate and efficient methods for computing eigenvalues and eigenfunctions in porous convection problems. 1996.
  • Mulone, G., Rionero S. & Straughan, B. Unconditional nonlinear stability in a polarized dielectric liquid. 1996.

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