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  1. Turbulence intermittency and velocity gradients

    Article • October 2026, Cassyni

    Professor Alain Pumir

  2. Relation between the moments of longitudinal velocity derivatives and of dissipation in turbulence

    Article • Physical Review Fluids, July 2026, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Alain Pumir

  3. Droplets impact on sheet flows: deciphering the physical mechanisms through droplet-induced shear stress

    Article • Journal of Advanced Research, July 2026, Elsevier

    Professor Alain Pumir

  4. Statistical orientation and distribution of columnar ice crystals in turbulent flows

    Article • Physical Review Fluids, June 2026, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Alain Pumir

  5. Turbulence intermittency and velocity gradients

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, May 2026, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Alain Pumir

  6. The contribution of dilatational motion to energy flux in homogeneous compressible turbulence

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, August 2025, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Alain Pumir

  7. Does small-scale turbulence matter for ice growth in mixed-phase clouds?

    Article • Physical Review Fluids, May 2025, American Physical Society (APS)

    Dr. Fabian Hoffmann, Professor Alain Pumir

  8. Universality of extreme events in turbulent flows

    Article • Physical Review Fluids, April 2025, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Alain Pumir

  9. Small-scale anisotropy and ramp–cliff structures in turbulent shear flows

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, April 2025, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Alain Pumir

  10. Multiparticle dispersion in rotating-stratified turbulent flows

    Article • Physical Review Fluids, March 2025, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Alain Pumir

  11. Torques on curved atmospheric fibers

    Article • Physical Review Research, February 2025, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Alain Pumir

  12. Lagrangian Irreversibility and Energy Exchanges in Rotating-Stratified Turbulent Flows

    Article • Physical Review Letters, July 2024, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Alain Pumir

  13. Effect of Turbulence on the Collision Rate between Settling Ice Crystals and Droplets

    Article • Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, May 2024, American Meteorological Society

    Professor Alain Pumir

  14. Structure and role of the pressure Hessian in regions of strong vorticity in turbulence

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, March 2024, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Alain Pumir

  15. Flux-conserving directed percolation

    Article • Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical, February 2024, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Alain Pumir

  16. Inertia Induces Strong Orientation Fluctuations of Nonspherical Atmospheric Particles

    Article • Physical Review Letters, January 2024, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Alain Pumir

  17. Lagrangian Supersaturation Fluctuations at the Cloud Edge

    Article • Physical Review Letters, December 2023, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Alain Pumir

  18. Multi-channel electrohysterography enabled uterine contraction characterization and its effect in delivery assessment

    Article • Computers in Biology and Medicine, December 2023, Elsevier

    Professor Alain Pumir

  19. Role of pressure in the dynamics of intense velocity gradients in turbulent flows

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, October 2023, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Alain Pumir

  20. Energy transfer and vortex structures: visualizing the incompressible turbulent energy cascade

    Article • New Journal of Physics, October 2023, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Alain Pumir

  21. Low-order moments of the velocity gradient in homogeneous compressible turbulence

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, August 2022, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Alain Pumir

  22. Waveform of free, hinged and clamped axonemes isolated from C. reinhardtii: influence of calcium

    Article • New Journal of Physics, May 2022, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Alain Pumir

  23. Vorticity-Strain Rate Dynamics and the Smallest Scales of Turbulence

    Article • Physical Review Letters, March 2022, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Alain Pumir

  24. Generation of intense dissipation in high Reynolds number turbulence

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, January 2022, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Alain Pumir

  25. Bio-hybrid micro-swimmers propelled by flagella isolated from C. reinhardtii

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2022, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor Alain Pumir

  26. Nonlocal amplification of intense vorticity in turbulent flows

    Article • Physical Review Research, November 2021, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Alain Pumir

  27. Explicit construction of joint multipoint statistics in complex systems

    Article • Journal of Physics Complexity, October 2021, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Alain Pumir

  28. Instability and disintegration of vortex rings during head-on collisions and wall interactions

    Article • Physical Review Fluids, October 2021, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Alain Pumir

  29. Realistic preterm prediction based on optimized synthetic sampling of EHG signal

    Article • Computers in Biology and Medicine, September 2021, Elsevier

    Professor Alain Pumir

  30. Cascades and reconnection in interacting vortex filaments

    Article • Physical Review Fluids, July 2021, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Alain Pumir

  31. Return to isotropy of homogeneous shear-released turbulence

    Article • Physical Review Fluids, April 2021, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Alain Pumir

  32. Inertial torque on a small spheroid in a stationary uniform flow

    Article • Physical Review Fluids, February 2021, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Alain Pumir

  33. Self-attenuation of extreme events in Navier–Stokes turbulence

    Article • Nature Communications, November 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Alain Pumir

  34. Stochastic Interpolation of Sparsely Sampled Time Series via Multipoint Fractional Brownian Bridges

    Article • Physical Review Letters, October 2020, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Alain Pumir

  35. Vortex stretching and enstrophy production in high Reynolds number turbulence

    Article • Physical Review Fluids, October 2020, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Alain Pumir

  36. Dynamics and invariants of the perceived velocity gradient tensor in homogeneous and isotropic turbulence

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, June 2020, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Alain Pumir

  37. Single-particle Lagrangian statistics from direct numerical simulations of rotating-stratified turbulence

    Article • Physical Review Fluids, June 2020, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Alain Pumir

  38. Receptor-induced transient responses in cells with oscillatory actin dynamics

    Article • Physical Review Research, March 2020, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Alain Pumir

  39. Turbulence generation through an iterative cascade of the elliptical instability

    Article • Science Advances, February 2020, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Professor Alain Pumir

  40. Importance of fluid inertia for the orientation of spheroids settling in turbulent flow

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, January 2020, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Alain Pumir

  41. Extreme velocity gradients in turbulent flows

    Article • New Journal of Physics, April 2019, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Alain Pumir

  42. Strain- or Stress-Sensing in Mechanochemical Patterning by the Phytohormone Auxin

    Article • The Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics, March 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Alain Pumir

  43. Strain- or Stress-sensing in mechanochemical patterning by the phytohormone auxin

    Article • March 2019, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Alain Pumir

  44. Lacunarity exponents

    Article • Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical, February 2019, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Alain Pumir

  45. Small-scale anisotropy in turbulent boundary layers

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, August 2016, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Alain Pumir

  46. Collisional Aggregation Due to Turbulence

    Article • Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics, March 2016, Annual Reviews

    Professor Michael Wilkinson, Professor Alain Pumir

  47. Prevalence of the sling effect for enhancing collision rates in turbulent suspensions

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, May 2014, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Alain Pumir

  48. Multiple collisions in turbulent flows

    Article • Physical Review E, December 2013, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Alain Pumir

  49. Low-energy control of electrical turbulence in the heart

    Article • Nature, July 2011, Nature

    Prof. Markus Zabel, Professor Alain Pumir

  50. Termination of Atrial Fibrillation Using Pulsed Low-Energy Far-Field Stimulation

    Article • Circulation, August 2009, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Professor Alain Pumir

  51. Unpinning and Removal of a Rotating Wave in Cardiac Muscle

    Article • Physical Review Letters, July 2004, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Alain Pumir

  52. Intermittent distribution of heavy particles in a turbulent flow

    Article • Physics of Fluids, July 2004, American Institute of Physics

    Gregory Falkovich, Professor Alain Pumir

  53. Evolution of triangles in a two-dimensional turbulent flow

    Article • October 2001, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Alain Pumir

  54. Lagrangian tetrad dynamics and the phenomenology of turbulence

    Article • Physics of Fluids, August 1999, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Alain Pumir

  55. Turbulence in homogeneous shear flows

    Article • Physics of Fluids, November 1996, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Alain Pumir

  56. Persistent Small Scale Anisotropy in Homogeneous Shear Flows

    Article • Physical Review Letters, October 1995, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Alain Pumir

  57. A numerical study of the mixing of a passive scalar in three dimensions in the presence of a mean gradient

    Article • Physics of Fluids, June 1994, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Alain Pumir

  58. A numerical study of pressure fluctuations in three‐dimensional, incompressible, homogeneous, isotropic turbulence

    Article • Physics of Fluids, June 1994, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Alain Pumir

  59. Spatiotemporal chaos in the one-dimensional complex Ginzburg-Landau equation

    Article • Physica D Nonlinear Phenomena, August 1992, Elsevier

    Professor Alain Pumir

  60. Development of singular solutions to the axisymmetric Euler equations

    Article • Physics of Fluids A Fluid Dynamics, July 1992, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Alain Pumir

  61. The Eckhaus instability for traveling waves

    Article • Physica D Nonlinear Phenomena, March 1992, Elsevier

    Professor Alain Pumir

  62. Exponential tails and random advection

    Article • Physical Review Letters, June 1991, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Alain Pumir

  63. Collapsing solutions to the 3‐D Euler equations

    Article • Physics of Fluids A Fluid Dynamics, February 1990, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Alain Pumir

  64. Anomalous diffusion of tracer in convection rolls

    Article • Physics of Fluids A Fluid Dynamics, March 1989, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Alain Pumir

  65. Numerical simulation of interacting vortex tubes

    Article • Physical Review Letters, April 1987, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Alain Pumir

  66. Vortex dynamics and the existence of solutions to the Navier–Stokes equations

    Article • The Physics of Fluids, January 1987, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Alain Pumir

  67. Vortex dynamics and singularities in the fluid equations

    Article • Physica D Nonlinear Phenomena, December 1986, Elsevier

    Professor Alain Pumir

  68. Equation describing wrinkled flame fronts

    Article • January 1985, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Alain Pumir

  69. Intrinsic stochasticity with many degrees of freedom

    Article • Journal of Statistical Physics, October 1984, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Alain Pumir

  70. On solitary waves running down an inclined plane

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, October 1983, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Alain Pumir