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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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Crack-microcrack interactions in dynamical fracture.

TL;DR: In developing the theory of the dynamical interaction, an approximation is invoked that affords a reduction in mathematical complexity to a simple set of ordinary differential equations for the positions of the crack tips; it is proposed that this kind of approximation has a range of usefulness that exceeds the present context.
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The Distribution of the Area under a Bessel Excursion and its Moments

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied the distribution of the area under a Bessel excursion in the context of laser cooling and derived a new expression for the Airy distribution in the process.
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How input fluctuations reshape the dynamics of a biological switching system

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors apply the Feynman-Kac theorem to investigate the statistical features of the output switching dynamics, and show that the input noise effectively suppress the input-dependent transitions.
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Nonlinear self-adapting wave patterns

TL;DR: A new type of traveling wave pattern is proposed that can adapt to the size of physical system in which it is embedded and can adiabatically deform as the system is increased in size without the increase in node number that would be expected for an oscillatory version of a Turing instability containing an allowed wavenumber band with a finite minimum.