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David A. Kessler
Researcher at United States Naval Research Laboratory
Publications - 378
Citations - 10682
David A. Kessler is an academic researcher from United States Naval Research Laboratory. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Instability. The author has an hindex of 46, co-authored 364 publications receiving 9669 citations. Previous affiliations of David A. Kessler include University of Michigan & Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
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A Model for Strain-Induced Roughening and Coherent Island Growth
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the morphological evolution of strained films during growth and showed that the kinetics ultimately determined the surface morphology of the stretched film, and inferred the morphology from experimental results on a number of strained growth systems.
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Geometrical Approach to Moving-Interface Dynamics
TL;DR: In this article, a general class of models is introduced which relate the motion of a phase boundary to properties of the local interfacial geometry, possibly giving rise to nonequilibrium spatial patterns.
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Pattern formation in Dictyostelium via the dynamics of cooperative biological entities.
David A. Kessler,Herbert Levine +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a set of reaction-diffusion equations coupled to dynamical biological entities (bions), each of which is endowed with signal receptors and response rules, is proposed.
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Front propagation: Precursors, cutoffs, and structural stability
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the time development of the leading edge of a front propagating into metastable and unstable states and found a precursor which in the metastable case propagates out ahead of the front at a velocity more than double that of the forward and established the characteristic exponential behavior of the steady-state leading edge.
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Extinction Rates for Fluctuation-Induced Metastabilities: A Real-Space WKB Approach
David A. Kessler,Nadav M. Shnerb +1 more
TL;DR: A real space WKB method based on the master equation is presented, and is shown to yield an excellent approximation for the decay rate and the extreme events statistics all the way down to the absorbing state.