Welcome to the Emergent Complexity in Physical Systems Laboratory !
We are interested in how seemingly simple physical systems create unexpectedly complex patterns and dynamical behaviour. Examples range from complex laminar turbulent patterns in shear flows to the deformation of droplets in microfluidic applications. We study these systems using several aspects of continuum mechanics and transport theory entwinded with dynamical systems methods and large computer simulations.
Find out more about the people who work here, the research we do, and our publications. Also, we propose master projects.
2025
2024
Natural convection in a vertical channel. Part 1. Wavenumber interaction and Eckhaus instability in a narrow domain
Z. Zheng; L. S. Tuckerman; T. M. Schneider
Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 2024. Vol. 1000, p. A28. DOI : 10.1017/jfm.2024.842. Natural convection in a vertical channel. Part 2. Oblique solutions and global bifurcations in a spanwise-extended domain
Z. Zheng; L. S. Tuckerman; T. M. Schneider
Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 2024. Vol. 1000, p. A29. DOI : 10.1017/jfm.2024.840. Adjoint-based variational methods for computing invariant solutions in spatio-temporally chaotic PDEs
O. Ashtari / T. Schneider (Dir.)
Lausanne, EPFL, 2024. 2023
Identifying invariant solutions of wall-bounded three-dimensional shear flows using robust adjoint-based variational techniques
O. Ashtari; T. M. Schneider
Journal Of Fluid Mechanics. 2023. Vol. 977, p. A7. DOI : 10.1017/jfm.2023.927. Symmetry-reduced low-dimensional representation of large-scale dynamics in the asymptotic suction boundary layer
M. Engel; O. Ashtari; M. Linkmann
European Journal Of Mechanics B-Fluids. 2023. Vol. 102, p. 80 – 90. DOI : 10.1016/j.euromechflu.2023.07.007. Jacobian-free variational method for computing connecting orbits in nonlinear dynamical systems
O. Ashtari; T. M. Schneider
Chaos. 2023. Vol. 33, num. 7, p. 073134. DOI : 10.1063/5.0143923.