Alexander Frenkel

Alexander Frenkel
Professor
afrenkel@as.ua.edu
(205) 348-5434
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Education:

  • M.S. – Novosibirsk State University, Russia, 1969
  • Ph.D. – Institute for Theoretical Physics of the Academy of Sciences of  UkSSR, Kiev, Ukraine, 1976

 

 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.
  • Frenkel, A., and Brecher, K., Horizon-free universe, Phys. Rev. D, 26: 368-372, 1982.