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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.

Publications

2026

Computing Simple Invariant Solutions in Chaotic Fluid Flows

O. Ashtari; L. S. Tuckerman; T. M. Schneider 

Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics. 2026. DOI : 10.1146/annurev-fluid-112723-061733.

Bifurcation structure of soliton self-injection locking in microresonators

S. Deshmukh; T. M. Schneider; A. Tikan 

Optics Letters. 2026. Vol. 51, num. 17. DOI : 10.1364/ol.608452.

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.

Nonlinear periodic orbit solutions and their bifurcation structure at the origin of soliton hopping in coupled microresonators

S. Deshmukh; A. Tusnin; A. Tikan; T. J. Kippenberg; T. M. Schneider 

Communications Physics. 2026. DOI : 10.1038/s42005-026-02623-6.

Solvent-coupled deformation in polymers near free surfaces

C. Li / T. Schneider; J. M. Kolinski (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2026. 

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. 

At the breaking point: Three-dimensional fracture in soft brittle solids

X. Wei / T. Schneider; J. M. Kolinski (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.