Matthew Thrasher, Publication List:

• Alex Leshchiner, Matthew Thrasher, Mark B. Mineev-Weinstein, Harry L. Swinney
  "Harmonic moment dynamics in Laplacian growth"
  in preparation for Physical Review E, 9 (expected to submit in 2008).
  
• Matthew Thrasher
  "Geometry and dynamics of fluid-fluid interfaces"
  PhD Dissertation (2007) [pdf].
  PowerPoint slides and movies from my oral defense: [ppt - 20.4 MB] [Movie 1 - 0.9 MB] [Movie 2 - 0.4 MB] [Movie 3 - 6.8 MB] [Movie 4 - 4.8 MB].
• Matthew Thrasher, Sunghwan Jung, Yee Kwong Pang, Chih-Piao Chuu, and Harry L. Swinney
  "Bouncing jet: A Newtonian liquid rebounding off a free surface"
  Physical Review E 76, 056319 (2007).
  preprint at 0707.1721
  final paper: [Journal URL], [pdf], [ps].
• Matthew Thrasher, Sunghwan Jung, Yee Kwong Pang, and Harry L. Swinney
  "Bouncing of a Jet off a Newtonian Liquid Surface"
  Physics of Fluids 19, 091111 (2007).
  [Journal URL][pdf] [ps]
  The article has a multimedia link to an online video.
  
  A winning video entry to the 2007 Gallery of Fluid Motion.
  The video is available here. You can read a transcript of the video here.
  The Gallery paper is also available here as a PDF.
  Movies and more information can be found on the CNLD Bouncing Jet Research Page.
• Joachim Mathiesen, Itamar Procaccia, Harry L. Swinney, Matthew Thrasher
  "The Universality Class of Diffusion Limited Aggregation and Viscous Fingering"
  Europhys. Lett. 76(2), 257-263 (2006).
  [Journal URL], [pdf], [ps]
  This paper was chosen as a Europhysics Letters Editorial Board highlight of 2006.
  
• Leif Ristroph, Matthew Thrasher, Mark Mineev-Weinstein, Harry L. Swinney
  "Fjords in viscous fingering: selection of width and opening angle"
  Phys. Rev. E Rapid Communications 74, 015201(R) (2006).
  preprint at nlin.PS/0510049.
  final paper: [Journal URL], [pdf], [ps]
• Matthew Thrasher
  "A Liquid Stream Bouncing off a Moving Liquid Bath"
  MA Thesis, University of Texas, Austin, August 2005.
  The full thesis is available here.
  A version with only the Introduction Chapter is available here.