Mailing address:	Dept. of Mechanical Engineering University of California Santa Barbara, CA 93106
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E-mail:	rkrechet@engineering.ucsb.edu
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My research focuses on fundamental questions in Fluid Dynamics motivated by or targeted to applications and natural phenomena. The problems of interest span from high Reynolds number flows, e.g. aerodynamics and geophysics, to low Reynolds number flows, namely microfluidics and fluid mechanics of complex interfaces. The research involves both theoretical - analytical and numerical - and experimental studies done in the Fluid Dynamics Laboratory.

• Krechetnikov R., Homsy G.M., "Crown-forming instability phenomena in the drop splash problem," J. Colloid Interface Sci. 331, 555-559 (2009).
• Krechetnikov R., Marsden J.E., "Dissipation-induced instability phenomena in infinite-dimensional systems," Arch. Rat. Mech. Anal. 194, 611-668 (2009).
• Krechetnikov R. "Rayleigh–Taylor and Richtmyer–Meshkov instabilities of flat and curved interfaces," J. Fluid Mech. 625, 387–410 (2009).
• Krechetnikov R., Marsden J.E., Nagib H.M. "A low-dimensional model of separation bubbles," Physica D 238, 1152-1160 (2009).
• Krechetnikov R., Marsden J.E., "On the origin and nature of finite-amplitude instabilities in physical systems," J. Phys. A 42, 412004 (2009).

Last updated: September 30th, 2009