Harry Swinney

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Harry Swinney
Born
Harry Leonard Swinney

(1939-04-10) April 10, 1939 (age 86)
Alma mater
Known for Chaos, pattern formation, and fluid dynamics experiments
Awards
  • Boltzmann Medal (2013)
  • Lewis Fry Richardson Medal (2012)
  • Jürgen Moser Award (2007)
  • American Physical Society Fluid Dynamics Prize (1995)
Scientific career
Fields Physics
Institutions
Doctoral advisor Herman Z. Cummins

Harry Leonard Swinney (born April 10, 1939) is an American physicist noted for his contributions to the field of nonlinear dynamics.

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Personal life

Harry Leonard Swinney was born in Opelousas, Louisiana, on April 10, 1939. His parents were Leonard R. Swinney and Ethel Bertheaud Swinney. In 1967 Harry Swinney married Gloria T. Luyas, and in 1978 they had a son, Brent Luyas Swinney. Brent died of cancer in 1995 and Gloria died of cancer in 1997. Harry Swinney married Lizabeth Kelley on August 12, 2000.

Education

Swinney attended elementary school in Austin, Texas, and in 1957 graduated from Homer Louisiana High School. In 1961 he was awarded a B.S. with honors in physics by Southwestern at Memphis (now Rhodes College), where he was inspired by his physics professor and research mentor, Jack H. Taylor. In 1968 he was awarded a Ph.D. in physics by Johns Hopkins University; his advisor was Herman Z. Cummins.

Career

Swinney was an assistant professor of physics at New York University (1971–73) and was associate professor and then professor at the City College of the City University of New York (1973–78). Since 1978 Swinney joined the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin, where he became the Sid W. Richardson Foundation Regents Chair of Physics and director of the Center for Nonlinear Dynamics. He became a Professor Emeritus in 2018.

Honors

Swinney is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1992) and a fellow of the American Physical Society (1977), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1991), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1999), and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (2009). He was awarded the American Physical Society Fluid Dynamics Prize (1995), the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Jürgen Moser Prize (2007), the European Geosciences Union Richardson Medal (2012), and the Boltzmann Medal (2013) of the Commission on Statistical Physics of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics. He was a Guggenheim Fellow (1983–84) and he was inducted into The Johns Hopkins University Society of Scholars (1984). He was awarded honorary doctoral degrees by Rhodes College (2002), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2008), and the University of Buenos Aires (2010).

Research contributions

Swinney conducts research on instabilities, chaos, and pattern formation in diverse systems, including fluid, chemical, and granular media. Swinney together with his students, postdocs, and other collaborators have:

Other

Swinney, together with Rajarshi Roy and Kenneth Showalter, founded a two-week Hands-On Research School for early career scientists from developing countries: handsonresearch.org. The schools, sponsored by the International Centre for Theoretical Physics, are described in a 3-minute video here.

References

  1. Swinney, H. L.; Cummins, Herman Z. (1968-07-05). "Thermal Diffusivity of CO2 in the Critical Region". Physical Review. 171 (1). American Physical Society (APS): 152–160. Bibcode:1968PhRv..171..152S. doi:10.1103/physrev.171.152. ISSN   0031-899X.
  2. Swinney, Harry L.; Henry, Donald L. (1973-11-01). "Dynamics of Fluids near the Critical Point: Decay Rate of Order-Parameter Fluctuations". Physical Review A. 8 (5). American Physical Society (APS): 2586–2617. Bibcode:1973PhRvA...8.2586S. doi:10.1103/physreva.8.2586. ISSN   0556-2791.
  3. Gollub, J. P.; Swinney, Harry L. (1975-10-06). "Onset of Turbulence in a Rotating Fluid". Physical Review Letters. 35 (14). American Physical Society (APS): 927–930. Bibcode:1975PhRvL..35..927G. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.35.927. ISSN   0031-9007.
  4. Fenstermacher, P. R.; Swinney, Harry L.; Gollub, J. P. (1979-09-11). "Dynamical instabilities and the transition to chaotic Taylor vortex flow". Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 94 (1). Cambridge University Press (CUP): 103–128. Bibcode:1979JFM....94..103F. doi:10.1017/s0022112079000963. ISSN   0022-1120. S2CID   14359747.
  5. Brandstater, A.; Swinney, Harry L. (1987-03-01). "Strange attractors in weakly turbulent Couette-Taylor flow". Physical Review A. 35 (5). American Physical Society (APS): 2207–2220. Bibcode:1987PhRvA..35.2207B. doi:10.1103/physreva.35.2207. ISSN   0556-2791. PMID   9898397.
  6. Wolf, Alan; Swift, Jack B.; Swinney, Harry L.; Vastano, John A. (1985). "Determining Lyapunov exponents from a time series" (PDF). Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena. 16 (3). Elsevier BV: 285–317. Bibcode:1985PhyD...16..285W. doi:10.1016/0167-2789(85)90011-9. ISSN   0167-2789. S2CID   14411384.
  7. Fraser, Andrew M.; Swinney, Harry L. (1986-02-01). "Independent coordinates for strange attractors from mutual information". Physical Review A. 33 (2). American Physical Society (APS): 1134–1140. Bibcode:1986PhRvA..33.1134F. doi:10.1103/physreva.33.1134. ISSN   0556-2791. PMID   9896728.
  8. Andereck, C. David; Liu, S. S.; Swinney, Harry L. (1986). "Flow regimes in a circular Couette system with independently rotating cylinders". Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 164. Cambridge University Press (CUP): 155–183. Bibcode:1986JFM...164..155A. doi:10.1017/s0022112086002513. ISSN   0022-1120. S2CID   122768769.
  9. Sommeria, Jöel; Meyers, Steven D.; Swinney, Harry L. (1988). "Laboratory simulation of Jupiter's Great Red Spot". Nature. 331 (6158). Springer Science and Business Media LLC: 689–693. Bibcode:1988Natur.331..689S. doi:10.1038/331689a0. ISSN   0028-0836. S2CID   39201626.
  10. Ouyang, Q.; Swinney, Harry L. (1991). "Transition from a uniform state to hexagonal and striped Turing patterns". Nature. 352 (6336). Springer Science and Business Media LLC: 610–612. Bibcode:1991Natur.352..610O. doi:10.1038/352610a0. ISSN   0028-0836. S2CID   4316122.
  11. Lathrop, Daniel P.; Fineberg, Jay; Swinney, Harry L. (1992-11-01). "Transition to shear-driven turbulence in Couette-Taylor flow". Physical Review A. 46 (10). American Physical Society (APS): 6390–6405. Bibcode:1992PhRvA..46.6390L. doi:10.1103/physreva.46.6390. ISSN   1050-2947. PMID   9907951.
  12. Lewis, Gregory S.; Swinney, Harry L. (1999-05-01). "Velocity structure functions, scaling, and transitions in high-Reynolds-number Couette-Taylor flow". Physical Review E. 59 (5). American Physical Society (APS): 5457–5467. Bibcode:1999PhRvE..59.5457L. doi:10.1103/physreve.59.5457. ISSN   1063-651X. PMID   11969525.
  13. Solomon, T. H.; Weeks, Eric R.; Swinney, Harry L. (1993-12-13). "Observation of anomalous diffusion and Lévy flights in a two-dimensional rotating flow". Physical Review Letters. 71 (24). American Physical Society (APS): 3975–3978. Bibcode:1993PhRvL..71.3975S. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.71.3975. ISSN   0031-9007. PMID   10055122.
  14. Umbanhowar, Paul B.; Melo, Francisco; Swinney, Harry L. (1996). "Localized excitations in a vertically vibrated granular layer". Nature. 382 (6594). Springer Science and Business Media LLC: 793–796. Bibcode:1996Natur.382..793U. doi:10.1038/382793a0. ISSN   0028-0836. S2CID   4338010.
  15. Melo, Francisco; Umbanhowar, Paul B.; Swinney, Harry L. (1995-11-20). "Hexagons, Kinks, and Disorder in Oscillated Granular Layers". Physical Review Letters. 75 (21). American Physical Society (APS): 3838–3841. arXiv: patt-sol/9507003 . Bibcode:1995PhRvL..75.3838M. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.75.3838. ISSN   0031-9007. PMID   10059744. S2CID   30000930.
  16. Rericha, Erin C.; Bizon, Chris; Shattuck, Mark D.; Swinney, Harry L. (2001-12-17). "Shocks in Supersonic Sand". Physical Review Letters. 88 (1). American Physical Society (APS): 014302. arXiv: cond-mat/0104474 . Bibcode:2001PhRvL..88a4302R. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.88.014302. ISSN   0031-9007. PMID   11800951. S2CID   16876943.
  17. Schröter, Matthias; Goldman, Daniel I.; Swinney, Harry L. (2005-03-30). "Stationary state volume fluctuations in a granular medium". Physical Review E. 71 (3). American Physical Society (APS): 030301(R). arXiv: cond-mat/0501264 . Bibcode:2005PhRvE..71c0301S. doi:10.1103/physreve.71.030301. ISSN   1539-3755. PMID   15903397. S2CID   8469315.
  18. Petrov, Valery; Ouyang, Qi; Swinney, Harry L. (1997). "Resonant pattern formation in achemical system". Nature. 388 (6643). Springer Science and Business Media LLC: 655–657. Bibcode:1997Natur.388..655P. doi: 10.1038/41732 . ISSN   0028-0836. S2CID   4394770.
  19. Masel/ko, J.; Swinney, Harry L. (1986). "Complex periodic oscillations and Farey arithmetic in the Belousov–Zhabotinskii reaction". The Journal of Chemical Physics. 85 (11). AIP Publishing: 6430–6441. Bibcode:1986JChPh..85.6430M. doi:10.1063/1.451473. ISSN   0021-9606.
  20. Sharon, Eran; Roman, Benoît; Marder, Michael; Shin, Gyu-Seung; Swinney, Harry L. (2002). "Buckling cascades in free sheets". Nature. 419 (6907). Springer Science and Business Media LLC: 579. doi:10.1038/419579a. hdl: 10533/173399 . ISSN   0028-0836. PMID   12374967. S2CID   4419167.
  21. Sharon, Eran; Marder, Michael; Swinney, Harry (2004). "Leaves, Flowers and Garbage Bags: Making Waves". American Scientist. 92 (3). Sigma Xi: 254–261. doi:10.1511/2004.47.932. ISSN   0003-0996. JSTOR   27858394.
  22. Zhang, H. P.; King, B.; Swinney, Harry L. (2008-06-20). "Resonant Generation of Internal Waves on a Model Continental Slope". Physical Review Letters. 100 (24). American Physical Society (APS): 244504. Bibcode:2008PhRvL.100x4504Z. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.100.244504. ISSN   0031-9007. PMID   18643589.
  23. Be'er, A.; Zhang, H. P.; Florin, E.-L.; Payne, S. M.; Ben-Jacob, E.; Swinney, H. L. (2009-01-07). "Deadly competition between sibling bacterial colonies". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106 (2): 428–433. Bibcode:2009PNAS..106..428B. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0811816106 . ISSN   0027-8424. PMC   2626719 . PMID   19129489.
  24. Be'er, A.; Ariel, G.; Kalisman, O.; Helman, Y.; Sirota-Madi, A.; et al. (2010-03-22). "Lethal protein produced in response to competition between sibling bacterial colonies". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107 (14): 6258–6263. Bibcode:2010PNAS..107.6258B. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1001062107 . ISSN   0027-8424. PMC   2851949 . PMID   20308591.
  25. Zhang, H. P.; Be'er, A.; Florin, E.- L.; Swinney, H. L. (2010-07-19). "Collective motion and density fluctuations in bacterial colonies". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107 (31): 13626–13630. Bibcode:2010PNAS..10713626Z. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1001651107 . ISSN   0027-8424. PMC   2922251 . PMID   20643957.