Nicholas T. Ouellette

Nicholas T. Ouellette

Website:

Ouellette Research Lab
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science
Room / Office: Mason M3
Office Address:
9 Hillhouse Avenue
New Haven, CT 06511
Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 208286
New Haven, CT 06520
Phone: (203) 432-9662
Email: nicholas.ouellette@yale.edu
Degrees:

Ph.D., Cornell University

Interests:

Turbulent intermittency and universality; geometry and topology in complex flow; turbulence in two dimensions; strongly driven complex fluids; particle-laden flow; geophysical fluid dynamics; applications of machine vision and data mining to fluid mechanics.

Selected Publications:

  • N. T. Ouellette, H. Xu, and E. Bodenschatz, "Bulk turbulence in dilute polymer solutions," 2009, J. Fluid Mech.629, 375-385.
  • N. T. Ouellette, P. J. J. O'Malley, and J. P. Gollub, "Transport of finite-sized particles in chaotic flow," 2008, Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 174504.
  • Evolution of geometric structures in intense turbulence, H. Xu, Nicholas T Ouellette, E. Bodenschatz, 2008, New J. Phys., 10, 013012.
  • Dynamic topology in spatiotemporal chaos, Nicholas T Ouellette, J.P. Gollub, 2008, Phys. Fluids, 20, 064104.
  • Curvature fields, topology, and the dynamics of spatiotemporal chaos, Nicholas T Ouellette, J.P. Gollub, 2007,Phys. Rev. Lett., 99, 194502.
  • The role of pair dispersion in turbulent flow, M. Bourgoin, Nicholas T Ouellette, H. Xu, J. Berg, E. Bodenschatz, 2006, Science, 311, 835.
  • High order Lagrangian velocity statistics in turbulence, H. Xu, M. Bourgoin, Nicholas T Ouellette, E. Bodenschatz, 2006, Phys. Rev. Lett., 96, 024503.
  • A quantitative study of three-dimensional Lagrangian particle tracking algorithms, Nicholas T Ouellette, H. Xu, E. Bodenschatz, 2006, Exp. Fluids, 40, 301.