1. S. Childress and R. Dudley, "Transition from ciliary to flapping mode in a swimming mollusc: flapping flight as a bifurcation  in Re_omegsa" , Submitted to Journal of Fluid Mechanics, September 2002.View pdf file.


Jean-Luc Thiffeault and S.tephen Childress,  "Chaotic mixing in a torus map", submitted to Chaos, November 2002. View pdf file.

Stephen Childress, "On vortex stretching and the global regularity of Euler flows I. Axisymmetric flow without swirl. View pdf file.

Stephen Childress, "Inertial swimming as a singular perturbation". Paper in Proceeding of DSCC 2008.View pdf file.

Stephen Childress, "Constraints on stretching by paired vortex structures I. Kinematics", 2009.
This is a preliminary report of ongoing work supported by the National Science Foundation, View pdf file                     

Stephen Childress, "Constraints on stretching by paired vortex structures II. The asymptotic dynamics of blow-up in three dimensions", 2009.
This is a preliminary report of ongoing work supported by the National Science Foundation, view pdf file