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Publications: Dr Axel Rossberg

Cockrell C, O'Sullivan JD, Terry JCD, Nwankwo EC, Trachenko K, Rossberg AG ( 2024 ) . Self-organization of ecosystems to exclude half of all potential invaders . Physical Review Research vol. 6 , ( 1 )
Atkinson A, Rossberg AG, Gaedke U, Sprules G, Heneghan RF, Batziakas S, Grigoratou M, Fileman E et al. ( 2024 ) . Steeper size spectra with decreasing phytoplankton biomass indicate strong trophic amplification and future fish declines . Nature Communications vol. 15 , ( 1 )
Terry JCD, O'Sullivan JD, Rossberg AG ( 2023 ) . Schrödinger's Range-Shifting Cat: How Skewed Temperature Dependence Impacts Persistence with Climate Change . The American Naturalist vol. 203 , ( 2 ) 161 - 173 .
Wang L, Clayton M, Rossberg AG ( 2023 ) . Drone audition for bioacoustic monitoring . Methods in Ecology and Evolution
O'Sullivan JD, Terry JCD, Rossberg AG ( 2023 ) . Temporally robust occupancy frequency distributions in riverine metacommunities explained by local biodiversity regulation . Global Ecology and Biogeography vol. 32 , ( 12 ) 2230 - 2243 .
Christopher J, Langdon W, Rossberg AG ( 2023 ) . Codistribution as an indicator of whole metacommunity response to environmental change . Ecography
O’Sullivan JD, Christopher J, Wilson R, Rossberg AG ( 2023 ) . Community composition exceeds area as a predictor of long-term conservation value . PLoS Computational Biology vol. 19 , ( 1 )
Gutiérrez Al-Khudhairy OU, Rossberg AG ( 2022 ) . Evolution of prudent predation in complex food webs . Ecology Letters vol. 25 , ( 5 ) 1055 - 1074 .
Terry JCD, O'Sullivan JD, Rossberg AG ( 2022 ) . Synthesising the multiple impacts of climatic variability on community responses to climate change . Ecography: pattern and diversity in ecology
Terry JCD, O’Sullivan JD, Rossberg AG ( 2021 ) . No pervasive relationship between species size and local abundance trends . Nature Ecology and Evolution
Spence MA, Griffiths CA, Waggitt JJ, Bannister HJ, Thorpe RB, Rossberg AG, Lynam CP ( 2021 ) . Sustainable fishing can lead to improvements in marine ecosystem status: an ensemble-model forecast of the North Sea ecosystem . Marine Ecology: Progress Series
O'Sullivan J, Terry C, Rossberg A ( 2021 ) . Intrinsic ecological dynamics drive biodiversity turnover in model metacommunities . Nature Communications
Rossberg AG ( 2020 ) . What Are the Fundamental Questions Regarding Evolution in Ecological Networks? . Trends in Ecology and Evolution
Dinner J, Knell RJ, Rossberg AG ( 2019 ) . Metacommunity-scale biodiversity regulation and the self-organised emergence of macroecological patterns (vol 22, pg 1428, 2019) . Ecology Letters vol. 22 , ( 12 ) 2168 - 2168 .
Rossberg AG, Gaedke U, Kratina P ( 2019 ) . Dome patterns in pelagic size spectra reveal strong trophic cascades . Nature Communications vol. 10 , ( 1 ) 4396 - 4396 .
Rossberg AG, Barabás G, Possingham HP, Pascual M, Marquet PA, Hui C, Evans MR, Meszéna G ( 2019 ) . Let’s Train More Theoretical Ecologists – Here Is Why . Trends in Ecology & Evolution vol. 34 , ( 9 ) 759 - 762 .
Rossberg AG ( 2019 ) . Food Webs . Encyclopedia of Theoretical Ecology , University of California Press
Dinner J, Knell RJ, Rossberg AG ( 2019 ) . Metacommunity-scale biodiversity regulation and the self-organised emergence of macroecological patterns . Ecol Lett
Rossberg AG, Barabás G ( 2019 ) . How Carefully Executed Network Theory Informs Invasion Ecology . Trends Ecol Evol vol. 34 , ( 5 ) 385 - 386 .
Rossberg AG ( 2018 ) . On the mathematics of sustainability . Nature Sustainability vol. 1 , ( 11 ) 615 - 616 .
Spence M, Blanchard J, ROSSBERG AG, Heath M, Heymans J, Mackinson S, Serpetti N, Speirs D et al. ( 2018 ) . A general framework for combining ecosystem models . Fish and Fisheries
Rossberg AG, Caskenette AL, Bersier L-F ( 2017 ) . Structural Instability of Food Webs and Food-Web Models and Their Implications for Management . Adaptive Food Webs , Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Santini L, Belmaker J, Costello MJ, Pereira HM, Rossberg AG, Schipper AM, Ceaușu S, Dornelas M et al. ( 2017 ) . Assessing the suitability of diversity metrics to detect biodiversity change . Biological Conservation vol. 213 , 341 - 350 .
Broszeit S, Beaumont NJ, Uyarra MC, Heiskanen AS, Frost M, Somerfield PJ, Rossberg AG, Teixeira H et al. ( 2017 ) . What can indicators of good environmental status tell us about ecosystem services?: Reducing efforts and increasing cost-effectiveness by reapplying biodiversity indicator data . Ecological Indicators vol. 81 , 409 - 442 .
Tam JC, Link JS, Rossberg AG, Rogers SI, Levin PS, Rochet M-J, Bundy A, Belgrano A et al. ( 2017 ) . Towards ecosystem-based management: identifying operational food-web indicators for marine ecosystems . ICES Journal of Marine Science . vol. 74 , 2040 - 2052 .
Lynam CP, Uusitalo L, Patrício J, Piroddi C, Queirós AM, Teixeira H, Rossberg AG, Sagarminaga Y et al. ( 2016 ) . Uses of Innovative Modeling Tools within the Implementation of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive . Frontiers in Marine Science vol. 3 ,
Heiskanen A-S, Berg T, Uusitalo L, Teixeira H, Bruhn A, Krause-Jensen D, Lynam CP, Rossberg AG et al. ( 2016 ) . Biodiversity in Marine Ecosystems—European Developments toward Robust Assessments . Frontiers in Marine Science vol. 3 ,
Rossberg AG, Uusitalo L, Berg T, Zaiko A, Chenuil A, Uyarra MC, Borja A, Lynam CP ( 2016 ) . Quantitative criteria for choosing targets and indicators for sustainable use of ecosystems . ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS vol. 72 , 215 - 224 .
Farcas A, Rossberg AG ( 2016 ) . Maximum sustainable yield from interacting fish stocks in an uncertain world: two policy choices and underlying trade-offs . ICES Journal of Marine Science: journal du conseil
Rossberg AG ( 2016 ) . Laplace Transforms of Probability Distributions and Their Inversions are Easy on Logarithmic Scales . Journal of Applied Probability vol. 45 , ( 2 ) 531 - 541 .
Schipper AM, Belmaker J, Miranda MD, Navarro LM, Böhning‐Gaese K, Costello MJ, Dornelas M, Foppen R et al. ( 2016 ) . Contrasting changes in the abundance and diversity of North American bird assemblages from 1971 to 2010 . Global Change Biology vol. 22 , ( 12 ) 3948 - 3959 .
Hyder K, Rossberg AG, Allen JI, Austen MC, Barciela RM, Bannister HJ, Blackwell PG, Blanchard JL et al. ( 2015 ) . Making modelling count - increasing the contribution of shelf-seas community and ecosystem models to policy development and management . Marine Policy vol. 61 , 291 - 302 .
Piroddi C, Teixeira H, Lynam CP, Smith C, Alvarez MC, Mazik K, Andonegi E, Churilova T et al. ( 2015 ) . Using ecological models to assess ecosystem status in support of the European Marine Strategy Framework Directive . Ecological Indicators vol. 58 , 175 - 191 .
Borrelli JJ, Allesina S, Amarasekare P, Arditi R, Chase I, Damuth J, Holt RD, Logofet DO et al. ( 2015 ) . Selection on stability across ecological scales . Trends in Ecology & Evolution vol. 30 , ( 7 ) 417 - 425 .
Fung T, Farnsworth KD, Reid DG, Rossberg AG ( 2015 ) . Impact of biodiversity loss on production in complex marine food webs mitigated by prey-release . Nat Commun vol. 6 , 6657 - 6657 .
James A, Plank MJ, Rossberg AG, Beecham J, Emmerson M, Pitchford JW ( 2015 ) . Constructing random matrices to represent real ecosystems . The American Naturalist vol. 185 , ( 5 ) 680 - 692 .
Nagelkerke LAJ, Rossberg AG ( 2014 ) . Trophic niche-space imaging, using resource and consumer traits . Theoretical Ecology vol. 7 , ( 4 ) 423 - 434 .
Rossberg AG, Rogers T, McKane AJ ( 2014 ) . Current noise-removal methods can create false signals in ecogenomic data . Proceedings of the Royal Society B vol. 281 , ( 1783 )
SHARMA D ( 2014 ) . Introduction . English in the Indian diaspora , Editors: Hundt, M, Sharma, D , Benjamins ( Amsterdam ),
Rossberg AG, Rogers T, McKane AJ ( 2013 ) . How, if, and why species form . Scientist vol. 27 , ( 11 )
Rossberg AG, Rogers T, McKane AJ ( 2013 ) . Are there species smaller than 1 mm? . Proc Biol Sci vol. 280 , ( 1767 ) 20131248 - 20131248 .
Rossberg AG, Houle JE, Hyder K ( 2013 ) . Stock–recruitment relations controlled by feeding interactions alone . Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences vol. 70 , ( 10 ) 1447 - 1455 .
Fung T, Farnsworth K, Shephard S, Reid D, Rossberg A ( 2013 ) . Why the size structure of marine communities can require decades to recover from fishing . Marine Ecology Progress Series vol. 484 , 155 - 171 .
Rossberg AG ( 2013 ) . Food Webs and Biodiversity . Wiley
Rombouts I, Beaugrand G, Fizzala X, Gaill F, Greenstreet SPR, Lamare S, Le Loc’h F, McQuatters-Gollop A et al. ( 2013 ) . Food web indicators under the Marine Strategy Framework Directive: From complexity to simplicity? . Ecological Indicators vol. 29 , 246 - 254 .
van Leeuwen E, Brännström Å, Jansen VAA, Dieckmann U, Rossberg AG ( 2013 ) . A generalized functional response for predators that switch between multiple prey species . Journal of Theoretical Biology vol. 328 , 89 - 98 .
Shephard S, Fung T, Rossberg AG, Farnsworth KD, Reid DG, Greenstreet SPR, Warnes S ( 2013 ) . Modelling recovery of Celtic Sea demersal fish community size-structure . Fisheries Research vol. 140 , 91 - 95 .
Greenstreet SPR, Rossberg AG, Fox CJ, Le Quesne WJF, Blasdale T, Boulcott P, Mitchell I, Millar C et al. ( 2012 ) . Demersal fish biodiversity: species-level indicators and trends-based targets for the Marine Strategy Framework Directive . ICES Journal of Marine Science vol. 69 , ( 10 ) 1789 - 1801 .
Rogers T, McKane AJ, Rossberg AG ( 2012 ) . Spontaneous genetic clustering in populations of competing organisms . Physical Biology vol. 9 , ( 6 )
Houle JE, Farnsworth KD, Rossberg AG, Reid DG ( 2012 ) . Assessing the sensitivity and specificity of fish community indicators to management action . Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences vol. 69 , ( 6 ) 1065 - 1079 .
Naisbit RE, Rohr RP, Rossberg AG, Kehrli P, Bersier L-F ( 2012 ) . Phylogeny versus body size as determinants of food web structure . Proceedings of the Royal Society B vol. 279 , ( 1741 ) 3291 - 3297 .
Fink P, Reichwaldt ES, Harrod C, Rossberg AG ( 2012 ) . Determining trophic niche width: an experimental test of the stable isotope approach . Oikos vol. 121 , ( 12 ) 1985 - 1994 .
Rogers T, McKane AJ, Rossberg AG ( 2012 ) . Demographic noise can lead to the spontaneous formation of species . EPL (Europhysics Letters) vol. 97 , ( 4 )
Shephard S, Fung T, Houle JE, Farnsworth KD, Reid DG, Rossberg AG ( 2012 ) . Size-selective fishing drives species composition in the Celtic Sea . ICES Journal of Marine Science vol. 69 , ( 2 ) 223 - 234 .
Fung T, Farnsworth KD, Reid DG, Rossberg AG ( 2012 ) . Recent data suggest no further recovery in North Sea Large Fish Indicator . ICES Journal of Marine Science vol. 69 , ( 2 ) 235 - 239 .
Mulder C, Boit A, Mori S, Vonk JA, Dyer SD, Faggiano L, Geisen S, González AL et al. ( 2012 ) . 1 Distributional (In)Congruence of Biodiversity–Ecosystem Functioning . Global Change in Multispecies Systems Part 1 , vol. 46 , Elsevier
Rossberg AG ( 2012 ) . 6 A Complete Analytic Theory for Structure and Dynamics of Populations and Communities Spanning Wide Ranges in Body Size . Global Change in Multispecies Systems Part 1 , vol. 46 , Elsevier
Rossberg AG ( 2012 ) . A Complete Analytic Theory for Structure and Dynamics of Populations and Communities Spanning Wide Ranges in Body Size . vol. 46 , 427 - 521 .
Mulder C, Boit A, Mori S, Vonk JA, Dyer SD, Faggiano L, Geisen S, González AL et al. ( 2012 ) . Distributional (In)Congruence of Biodiversity-Ecosystem Functioning . vol. 46 , 1 - 88 .
ROSSBERG AG ( 2011 ) . ON THE LIMITS OF SPECTRAL METHODS FOR FREQUENCY ESTIMATION . International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos vol. 14 , ( 06 ) 2115 - 2123 .
Brännström Å, Carlsson L, Rossberg AG ( 2010 ) . Rigorous conditions for food-web intervality in high-dimensional trophic niche spaces . Journal of Mathematical Biology vol. 63 , ( 3 ) 575 - 592 .
Rossberg AG, Farnsworth KD, Satoh K, Pinnegar JK ( 2010 ) . Universal power-law diet partitioning by marine fish and squid with surprising stability–diversity implications . Proceedings of the Royal Society B vol. 278 , ( 1712 ) 1617 - 1625 .
Rossberg AG, Farnsworth KD ( 2010 ) . Simplification of structured population dynamics in complex ecological communities . Theoretical Ecology vol. 4 , ( 4 ) 449 - 465 .
Rossberg AG, Brännström Å, Dieckmann U ( 2010 ) . Food-web structure in low- and high-dimensional trophic niche spaces . Journal of The Royal Society Interface vol. 7 , ( 53 ) 1735 - 1743 .
Mulder C, Den Hollander HA, Vonk JA, Rossberg AG, op Akkerhuis GA, Yeates GW ( 2009 ) . Soil resource supply influences faunal size-specific distributions in natural food webs . Naturwissenschaften vol. 96 , ( 7 ) 813 - 826 .
Rossberg AG, Matsuda H, Amemiya T, Itoh K ( 2009 ) . Corrigendum to “Food webs: Experts consuming families of experts” [J. Theor. Biol. 241 (2006) 552–563] . Journal of Theoretical Biology vol. 258 , ( 2 )
Rossberg AG, Brännström Å, Dieckmann U ( 2009 ) . How trophic interaction strength depends on traits . Theoretical Ecology vol. 3 , ( 1 ) 13 - 24 .
Kumar P, Hiremath US, Yelamaggad CV, Rossberg AG, Krishnamurthy KS ( 2008 ) . Electroconvection in a Homeotropic Bent-Rod Nematic Liquid Crystal Beyond the Dielectric Inversion Frequency . The Journal of Physical Chemistry B vol. 112 , ( 32 ) 9753 - 9760 .
Kumar P, Hiremath US, Yelamaggad CV, Rossberg AG, Krishnamurthy KS ( 2008 ) . Drifting Periodic Structures in a Degenerate-Planar Bent-Rod Nematic Liquid Crystal Beyond the Dielectric Inversion Frequency . The Journal of Physical Chemistry B vol. 112 , ( 31 ) 9270 - 9274 .
Rossberg AG, Yoshida K, Ishii R ( 2008 ) . Introduction . Ecological Complexity vol. 5 , ( 2 ) 71 - 72 .
Rossberg AG ( 2008 ) . Part–whole relations between food webs and the validity of local food-web descriptions . Ecological Complexity vol. 5 , ( 2 ) 121 - 131 .
Serizawa H, Amemiya T, Rossberg AG, Itoh K ( 2008 ) . Computer simulations of seasonal outbreak and diurnal vertical migration of cyanobacteria . Limnology vol. 9 , ( 3 ) 185 - 194 .
Rossberg AG, Ishii R, Amemiya T, Itoh K ( 2008 ) . THE TOP‐DOWN MECHANISM FOR BODY‐MASS–ABUNDANCE SCALING . Ecology vol. 89 , ( 2 ) 567 - 580 .
Serizawa H, Amemiya T, Enomoto T, Rossberg AG, Itoh K ( 2007 ) . Mathematical modeling of colony formation in algal blooms: phenotypic plasticity in cyanobacteria . Ecological Research vol. 23 , ( 5 ) 841 - 850 .
Amemiya T, Enomoto T, Rossberg AG, Yamamoto T, Inamori Y, Itoh K ( 2007 ) . Stability and dynamical behavior in a lake-model and implications for regime shifts in real lakes . Ecological Modelling vol. 206 , ( 1-2 ) 54 - 62 .
Rossberg AG, Kramer L ( 2006 ) . Weakly nonlinear theory of electroconvection in homeotropically oriented nematic liquid crystals . Physica Scripta vol. T67 , 121 - 124 .
Éber N, Rossberg A, Buka Á, Kramer L ( 2000 ) . New Scenarios in the Electroconvection of a Homeotropic Nematic Liquid Crystal . Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals Science and Technology Section A Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals . vol. 351 , 161 - 168 .
拓海 一, Rossberg AG, Rajendran N, 隆 雨, 公紀 伊 ( 2006 ) . 4 二次元電気泳動法による土壌細菌の16S rDNAの多型解析(北海道支部講演会, 2005年度各支部会講演要旨) .
Rossberg AG, Yanagi K, Amemiya T, Itoh K ( 2006 ) . Estimating trophic link density from quantitative but incomplete diet data . Journal of Theoretical Biology vol. 243 , ( 2 ) 261 - 272 .
Rossberg AG, Matsuda H, Amemiya T, Itoh K ( 2006 ) . Food webs: Experts consuming families of experts . Journal of Theoretical Biology vol. 241 , ( 3 ) 552 - 563 .
Tatsumi S, Sano M, Rossberg AG ( 2006 ) . Observation of stable phase jump lines in convection of a twisted nematic liquid crystal . Physical Review E vol. 73 , ( 1 )
Rossberg AG, Matsuda H, Koike F, Amemiya T, Makino M, Morino M, Kubo T, Shimode S et al. ( 2005 ) . A guideline for ecological risk management procedures . Landscape and Ecological Engineering vol. 1 , ( 2 ) 221 - 228 .
Rossberg AG, Matsuda H, Amemiya T, Itoh K ( 2005 ) . An explanatory model for food-web structure and evolution . Ecological Complexity vol. 2 , ( 3 ) 312 - 321 .
Rossberg AG, Matsuda H, Amemiya T, Itoh K ( 2005 ) . Some properties of the speciation model for food-web structure—Mechanisms for degree distributions and intervality . Journal of Theoretical Biology vol. 238 , ( 2 ) 401 - 415 .
Amemiya T, Enomoto T, Rossberg A, Takamura N, Itoh K ( 2005 ) . Lake Restoration in Terms of Ecological Resilience: a Numerical Study of Biomanipulations under Bistable Conditions . Ecology and Society vol. 10 , ( 2 )
Rossberg AG ( 2004 ) . A Frequency Measure Robust to Linear Filtering . Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics vol. 112 , ( 6 ) 907 - 919 .
Yimit A, Rossberg AG, Amemiya T, Itoh K ( 2004 ) . Thin film composite optical waveguides for sensor applications: a review . Talanta vol. 65 , ( 5 ) 1102 - 1109 .
Rossberg AG, Bartholomé K, Voss HU, Timmer J ( 2004 ) . Phase Synchronization from Noisy Univariate Signals . Physical Review Letters vol. 93 , ( 15 )
Herwig J, Riegler P, Friedrichs R, Rossberg AG, Bartholomé K ( 2004 ) . Diagnosis in flow: Diagnostic functionalities for vortex flowmeters . VDI Berichte ( 1829 )
Rossberg AG, 隆 雨, 公紀 伊 ( 2004 ) . 12aTC-4 食物網進化のモデル(生態系・ゲーム等, 領域 11) .
Rossberg AG, Riegler P, Buhl F, Herwig J, Timmer J ( 2004 ) . Detection of improper installation from the sensor signal of vortex flowmeters . Flow Measurement and Instrumentation . vol. 15 , 29 - 35 .
Rossberg AG, Bartholomé K, Timmer J ( 2004 ) . Data-driven optimal filtering for phase and frequency of noisy oscillations: Application to vortex flow metering . Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics vol. 69 , ( 1 2 ) 162161 - 1621611 .
Rossberg AG, Riegler P, Buhl F, Herwig J, Timmer J ( 2004 ) . Detection of improper installation from the sensor signal of vortex flowmeters . Flow Measurement and Instrumentation vol. 15 , ( 1 ) 29 - 35 .
Rossberg AG ( 2003 ) . A Computational Theory of Modelling . AIP Conference Proceedings vol. 661 , ( 1 ) 270 - 271 .
Éber N, Németh S, Rossberg AG, Kramer L, Buka Á ( 2002 ) . Magnetic field effect on the thresholds of a sequence of transitions in the electroconvection of a homeotropic nematic liquid crystal . Physical Review E vol. 66 , ( 3 )
Rossberg AG ( 2000 ) . Three-dimensional pattern formation, multiple homogeneous soft modes, and nonlinear dielectric electroconvection . Physical Review E vol. 62 , ( 6 ) 8114 - 8132 .
Rossberg A ( 2000 ) . Twist localizes three-dimensional patterns . Physical Review E vol. 62 , ( 4 ) 4682 - 4687 .
Huh J-H, Hidaka Y, Rossberg AG, Kai S ( 2000 ) . Pattern formation of chevrons in the conduction regime in homeotropically aligned liquid crystals . Physical Review E vol. 61 , ( 3 ) 2769 - 2776 .
Rossberg AG, Éber N, Buka Á, Kramer L ( 2000 ) . Abnormal rolls and regular arrays of disclinations in homeotropic electroconvection . Physical Review E vol. 61 , ( 1 ) r25 - r28 .
Rossberg AG ( 2000 ) . Three-dimensional pattern formation, multiple homogeneous soft modes, and nonlinear dielectric electroconvection . Physical Review E - Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics vol. 62 , ( 6 ) 8114 - 8132 .
Rossberg AG ( 2000 ) . Twist localizes three-dimensional patterns . Physical Review E - Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics vol. 62 , ( 4 ) 4682 - 4687 .
Amm H, Stannarius R, Rossberg AG ( 1999 ) . Optical characterization of chevron texture formation in nematic electroconvection . Physica D Nonlinear Phenomena vol. 126 , ( 3-4 ) 171 - 188 .
Rossberg AG, Kramer L ( 1998 ) . Pattern formation from defect chaos — a theory of chevrons . Physica D Nonlinear Phenomena vol. 115 , ( 1-2 ) 19 - 28 .
Plaut E, Decker W, Rossberg AG, Kramer L, Pesch W, Belaidi A, Ribotta R ( 1997 ) . New Symmetry Breaking in Nonlinear Electroconvection of Nematic Liquid Crystals . Physical Review Letters vol. 79 , ( 12 ) 2367 - 2370 .
Rossberg AG, Hertrich A, Kramer L, Pesch W ( 1996 ) . Weakly Nonlinear Theory of Pattern-Forming Systems with Spontaneously Broken Isotropy . Physical Review Letters vol. 76 , ( 25 ) 4729 - 4732 .
Predtechensky AA, McCormick WD, Swift JB, Rossberg AG, Swinney HL ( 1994 ) . Traveling wave instability in sustained double-diffusive convection . Physics of Fluids vol. 6 , ( 12 ) 3923 - 3935 .