Stephen H. Davis
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Stephen Hunt Davis (1949) Stephen H. Davis is a professor of education leadership at the Californian Polytechnic University, Pomona. Stephen went to Stanford University (California) to get his bachelor's degree in political science as well as a doctorate in educational administration and policy analysis. He then stayed on at Stanford University at their School of Education and became director of the 'Policy, Organization, and Leadership Studies Program' and as associate professor (Teaching) of 'Educational Leadership and Director of the Prospective Principals Program'. He has also served as an associate professor of Educational Administration at the University of the Pacific (Stockton, California), and from 1974 to 1994 as a school district superintendent, director of personnel, high school principal, high school dean, and high school teacher. Stephen has published work with his wife Patricia B. Davis (née Blackwell born 1946), who is currently the superintendent of the Ross Valley School District in Marin County, California. During her 30 years in public education, Patricia has been a superintendent in two school districts, an assistant superintendent, a deputy director of instruction, an elementary school principal, a district staff development coordinator, an elementary teacher, and a learning support faculty member with CalStateTEACH. He is the coauthor of The Intuitive Dimensions of Administrative Decision Making (2003) and author of numerous articles and reports in the field of educational leadership.
Books
Free boundaries in viscous flows
It is increasingly the case that models of natural phenomena and materials processing systems involve viscous flows with free surfaces. These free boundaries are interfaces of the fluid with either second immiscible fluids or else deformable solid boundaries. The deformation can be due to mechanical displacement or as is the case here, due to phase transformation; the solid can melt or freeze. This volume highlights a broad range of subjects on interfacial phenomena. There is an overview of the mathematical description of viscous free-surface flows, a description of the current understanding of mathematical issues that arise in these models and a discussion of high-order-accuracy boundary-integral methods for the solution of viscous free surface flows. There is the mathematical analysis of particular flows: long-wave instabilities in viscous-film flows, analysis of long-wave instabilities leading to Marangoni convection, and de§ scriptions of the interaction of convection with morphological stability during directional solidification. This book is geared toward anyone with an interest in free-boundary problems, from mathematical analysts to material scientists; it will be useful to applied mathematicians, physicists, and engineers alike.