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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.
2026
Local and global bifurcations to large-scale oblique patterns in inclined layer convection
Z. Zheng; S. Azimi; F. Reetz; T. M. Schneider
Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 2026. Vol. 1035. DOI : 10.1017/jfm.2026.11487. Transition from sub-Rayleigh anticrack to supershear crack propagation in snow slab avalanches: A numerical and theoretical analysis
B. Trottet / T. Schneider; J. A. P. Gaume (Dir.)
Lausanne, EPFL, 2026. 2025
Natural convection in a vertical channel. Part 3. Bifurcations of many (additional) unstable periodic orbits and their dynamical relevance
Z. Zheng; L. S. Tuckerman; T. M. Schneider
Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 2025. Vol. 1022. DOI : 10.1017/jfm.2025.10800. Ghost States Underlying Spatial and Temporal Patterns: How Nonexistent Invariant Solutions Control Nonlinear Dynamics
Z. Zheng; P. Beck; T. Yang; O. Ashtari; J. P. Parker et al.
PHYSICAL REVIEW E. 2025. Vol. 112, num. 2. DOI : 10.1103/8b86-3plx. Accurate Implementation of Rotating Magneto-Hydrodynamics in a Channel Geometry Using an Influence Matrix Method
J-C. Ringenbach; S. M. Tobias; T. M. Schneider
Mathematics. 2025. Vol. 13, num. 16. DOI : 10.3390/math13162549. Search for Unstable Relative Periodic Orbits in Channel Flow Using Symmetry-reduced Dynamic Mode Decomposition
M. Engel; O. Ashtari; T. M. Schneider; M. Linkmann
JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS. 2025. Vol. 1013. DOI : 10.1017/jfm.2025.10255.
