Environmental Complexity Lab

Civil and Environmental Engineering
Stanford University

Contact:

Nicholas T. Ouellette
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Stanford University

Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Environment and Energy Building
Room 169
473 Via Ortega
Stanford, CA 94305

Tel: (650) 723-4860
Fax: (650) 725-9720
nto -at- stanford.edu

Publications

Papers and Book Chapters

2025

• L. K. C. Sunberg, H. Chung, E. S. MacDonald, N. T. Ouellette, and J. R. Koseff, "Transport of rod-shaped particles in a canopy flow with a buoyant plume," submitted.
• E. S. MacDonald, H. Chung, L. K. C. Sunberg, N. T. Ouellette, and J. R. Koseff, "Non-ballistic transport of particles in a canopy-plume system," submitted.
• T. MacMillan, J. P. Hilditch, and N. T. Ouellette, "Expected correlation in time-series analysis," accepted for publication in Physical Review E (2025).
• L. L. Ouellette, V. Fang, and N. T. Ouellette, "How will AI affect patent disclosures?" Nature Biotechnology 43, 26-28 (2025).

  2024

• H. Chung, L. K. C. Sunberg, E. MacDonald, N. T. Ouellette, and J. R. Koseff, "Dispersion of inertial particles in turbulent canopy flows with buoyant and non-buoyant plumes," Physical Review Fluids 9, 093801 (2024). Chosen as an Editors' Suggestion.
• T. MacMillan and N. T. Ouellette, "Spectral energy transfer on complex networks: a filtering approach," Scientific Reports 14, 20691 (2024).
• L. K. C. Sunberg, M. H. DiBenedetto, N. T. Ouellette, and J. R. Koseff, "Parametric study of the dispersion of inertial ellipsoidal particles in a wave-current flow," Physical Review Fluids 9, 034302 (2024).
• R. L. Aras, N. T. Ouellette, and R. K. Jain, "Quantifying the pedestrian access potential of suburban street network retrofits," Environment and Planning B 51, 656-669 (2024).

2023

• A. M. Reynolds and N. T. Ouellette, "Swarm formation as backward diffusion," Physical Biology 20, 026002 (2023).
• R. L. Aras, N. T. Ouellette, and R. K. Jain, "A barrier too far: understanding the role of intersection crossing distance on bicycle rider behavior in Chicago," Environment and Planning B 50, 2118-2132 (2023).
• Y. Feng and N. T. Ouellette, "Nonuniform spatial sampling by individuals in midge swarms," Journal of the Royal Society Interface 20, 20220521 (2023).
• L. K. Clark, M. H. DiBenedetto, N. T. Ouellette, and J. R. Koseff, "Dispersion of finite-size, non-spherical particles by waves and currents," Journal of Fluid Mechanics 954, A3 (2023).
• D. O'Coin, G. E. McIvor, A. Thornton, N. T. Ouellette, and H. Ling, "Velocity correlations in jackdaw flocks in different ecological contexts," Physical Biology 20, 016005 (2023).

2022

• T. MacMillan and N. T. Ouellette, "Lagrangian scale decomposition via the graph Fourier transform," Physical Review Fluids 7, 124401 (2022).
• L. M. Wedding, S. Green, S. Reiter, K. R. Arrigo, L. Hazen, M. Ruckelshaus, J. M. A. van der Grient, R. M. Bailey, M. A. Cameron, J. Leape, M. Levi, A. Merkl, M. M. Mills, S. Monismith, N. T. Ouellette, G. van Dijken, and F. Micheli, "Linking multiple stressor science to policy opportunities through network modeling," Marine Policy 146, 105307 (2022).
• S. Gakhar, J. R. Koseff, and N. T. Ouellette, "Extracting free-surface expressions of underwater features," Experiments in Fluids 63, 138 (2022).
• A. M. Reynolds, G. E. McIvor, A. Thornton, P. Yang, and N. T. Ouellette, "Stochastic modelling of bird flocks: accounting for the cohesiveness of collective motion," Journal of the Royal Society Interface 19, 20210745 (2022).
• M. L. Patel and N. T. Ouellette, "Formation and dissolution of midge swarms," Physical Review E 105, 034601 (2022).
• N. T. Ouellette, "A physics perspective on collective animal behavior," Physical Biology 19, 021004 (2022).
• M. Galanis, M. D. Shattuck, C. S. O'Hern, and N. T. Ouellette, "Directional strengthening and weakening in hydrodynamically sheared granular beds," Physical Review Fluids 7, 013802 (2022).
• Y. Tanimoto, N. T. Ouellette, and J. R. Koseff, "On the interaction between oncoming internal waves and a dense gravity current in a two-layer stratification," Journal of Fluid Mechanics 932, A28 (2022).

2021

• L. Fang and N. T. Ouellette, "Spectral condensation in laboratory two-dimensional turbulence," Physical Review Fluids 6, 104605 (2021).
• M. Galanis, P. Wang, M. D. Shattuck, C. S. O'Hern, and N. T. Ouellette, "Onset of grain motion in eroding subaqueous bimodal granular beds," Physical Review Fluids 6, 094301 (2021).
• N. T. Ouellette, "Extending the reach of Lagrangian analysis in turbulence," Journal of Fluid Mechanics 924, F1 (2021).
• N. T. Ouellette and D. M. Gordon, "Goals and limitations of modeling collective behavior in biological systems," Frontiers in Physics 9, 687823 (2021).
• Y. Tanimoto, N. T. Ouellette, and J. R. Koseff, "Secondary generation of breaking internal waves in confined basins by gravity currents," Journal of Fluid Mechanics 917, A49 (2021).
• P. Wang, S. Zhang, P. J. Tuckman, D. Wang, N. T. Ouellette, M. D. Shattuck, and C. S. O'Hern, "Shear response of granular packings compressed above jamming onset," Physical Review E 103, 022902 (2021).
• M. Sinhuber, K. van der Vaart, Y. Feng, A. M. Reynolds, and N. T. Ouellette, "An equation of state for insect swarms," Scientific Reports 11, 3773 (2021).
• L. Fang and N. T. Ouellette, "Assessing the information content of complex flows," Physical Review E 103, 023301 (2021).
• R. L. Aras, N. T. Ouellette, and R. K. Jain, "Automated identification of urban substructure for comparative analysis," PLoS ONE 16, e0245067 (2021).

2020

• T. MacMillan, N. T. Ouellette, and D. H. Richter, "Detection of evolving Lagrangian coherent structures: a multiple object tracking approach," Physical Review Fluids 5, 124401 (2020).
• K. R. Arrigo, G. L. van Dijken, M. A. Cameron, J. van der Grient, L. M. Wedding, L. Hazen, J. Leape, G. Leonard, A. Merkl, F. Micheli, M. M. Mills, S. Monismith, N. T. Ouellette, A. Zivian, M. Levi, and R. M. Bailey, "Synergistic interactions among growing stressors increase risk to an Arctic ecosystem," Nature Communications 11, 6255 (2020).
• L. K. Clark, M. H. DiBenedetto, N. T. Ouellette, and J. R. Koseff, "Settling of inertial nonspherical particles in wavy flow," Physical Review Fluids 5, 124301 (2020).
• J. G. Ballouz, P. L. Johnson, and N. T. Ouellette, "Temporal dynamics of the alignment of the turbulent stress and strain rate," Physical Review Fluids 5, 114606 (2020).
• D. Gorbonos, J. G. Puckett, K. van der Vaart, M. Sinhuber, N. T. Ouellette, and N. S. Gov, "Pair formation in insect swarms driven by adaptive long-range interactions," Journal of the Royal Society Interface 17, 20200367 (2020).
• S. Gakhar, J. R. Koseff, and N. T. Ouellette, "On the surface expression of bottom features in free-surface flow," Journal of Fluid Mechanics 900, A41 (2020).
• L. Fang, S. Balasuriya, and N. T. Ouellette, "Disentangling resolution, precision, and inherent stochasticity in nonlinear systems," Physical Review Research 2, 023343 (2020).
• Z. Zhou, L. Fang, N. T. Ouellette, and H. Xu, "Vorticity gradient stretching in the direct enstrophy transfer process of two-dimensional turbulence," Physical Review Fluids 5, 054602 (2020).
• K. van der Vaart, M. Sinhuber, A. M. Reynolds, and N. T. Ouellette, "Environmental perturbations induce correlations in midge swarms," Journal of the Royal Society Interface 17, 20200018 (2020).
• J. G. Ballouz and N. T. Ouellette, "Geometric constraints on energy transfer in the turbulent cascade," Physical Review Fluids 5, 034603 (2020).
• D. Gorbonos, K. van der Vaart, M. Sinhuber, J. G. Puckett, A. M. Reynolds, N. T. Ouellette, and N. S. Gov, "Similarities between insect swarms and isothermal globular clusters," Physical Review Research 2, 013271 (2020).
• Y. Tanimoto, N. T. Ouellette, and J. R. Koseff, "Interaction between an inclined gravity current and a pycnocline in a two-layer stratification," Journal of Fluid Mechanics 887, A8 (2020).

2019

• H. Ling, G. E. McIvor, J. Westley, K. van der Vaart, R. T. Vaughan, A. Thornton, and N. T. Ouellette, "Behavioural plasticity and the transition to order in jackdaw flocks," Nature Communications 10, 5174 (2019).
• S. L. Eagleman, D. Chander, C. Reynolds, N. T. Ouellette, and M. B. MacIver, "Nonlinear dynamics captures brain states at different levels of consciousness in patients anesthetized with propofol," PLoS ONE 14, e0223921 (2019).
• F. Xiong, P. Wang, A. H. Clark, T. Bertrand, N. T. Ouellette, M. D. Shattuck, and C. S. O'Hern, "Comparison of shear and compression jammed packings of frictional disks," Granular Matter 21, 109 (2019).
• H. Ling, G. E. McIvor, J. Westley, K. van der Vaart, J. Yin, R. T. Vaughan, A. Thornton, and N. T. Ouellette, "Collective turns in jackdaw flocks: kinematics and information transfer," Journal of the Royal Society Interface 16, 20190450 (2019).
• N. T. Ouellette, "The most active matter of all," Matter 1, 297-299 (2019).
• E. A. Andruszkiewicz, J. R. Koseff, O. B. Fringer, N. T. Ouellette, A. B. Lowe, C. A. Edwards, and A. B. Boehm, "Modeling environmental DNA transport in the coastal ocean using Lagrangian particle tracking," Frontiers in Marine Science 6, 477 (2019).
• K. van der Vaart, M. Sinhuber, A. M. Reynolds, and N. T. Ouellette, "Mechanical spectroscopy of insect swarms," Science Advances 5, eeaw9305 (2019). Described in an article in Quanta Magazine.
• H. Ling, G. E. McIvor, K. van der Vaart, R. T. Vaughan, A. Thornton, and N. T. Ouellette, "Local interactions and their group-level consequences in flocking jackdaws," Proceedings of the Royal Society B 286, 20190865 (2019).
• R. Ouillon, E. Meiburg, N. T. Ouellette, and J. R. Koseff, "Interaction of a downslope gravity current with an internal wave," Journal of Fluid Mechanics 873, 889-913 (2019).
• L. Fang and N. T. Ouellette, "Transport across a bathymetric interface in quasi-two-dimensional flow," Physical Review Fluids 4, 064501 (2019).
• H. Ling, G. E. McIvor, K. van der Vaart, R. T. Vaughan, A. Thornton, and N. T. Ouellette, "Costs and benefits of social relationships in the collective motion of bird flocks," Nature Ecology & Evolution 3, 943-948 (2019). Read the accompanying "Behind the Paper" blog post.
• M. H. DiBenedetto, J. R. Koseff, and N. T. Ouellette, "Orientation dynamics of non-spherical particles under surface gravity waves," Physical Review Fluids 4, 034301 (2019). Chosen as an Editors' Suggestion.
• M. Sinhuber, K. van der Vaart, R. Ni, J. G. Puckett, D. H. Kelley, and N. T. Ouellette, "Three-dimensional time-resolved trajectories from laboratory insect swarms," Scientific Data 6, 190036 (2019).
• M. Sinhuber, K. van der Vaart, and N. T. Ouellette, "Response of insect swarms to dynamic illumination perturbations," Journal of the Royal Society Interface 16, 20180739 (2019).
• L. Fang, S. Balasuriya, and N. T. Ouellette, "Local linearity, coherent structures, and scale-to-scale coupling in turbulent flow," Physical Review Fluids 4, 014501 (2019).
• N. T. Ouellette, "Flowing crowds," Science 363, 27-28 (2019). Listen to Nick's interview on NPR's Science Friday.

2018

• H. Ling, G. E. McIvor, G. Nagy, S. MohaimenianPour, R. T. Vaughan, A. Thornton, and N. T. Ouellette, "Simultaneous measurements of three-dimensional trajectories and wingbeat frequencies of birds in the field," Journal of the Royal Society Interface 15, 20180653 (2018).
• M. H. DiBenedetto and N. T. Ouellette, "Preferential orientation of spheroidal particles in wavy flow," Journal of Fluid Mechanics 856, 850-869 (2018).
• S. L. Eagleman, D. A. Vaughn, D. R. Drover, C. M. Drover, M. S. Cohen, N. T. Ouellette, and M. B. MacIver, "Do complexity measures of frontal EEG distinguish loss of consciousness in geriatric patients under anesthesia?" Frontiers in Neuroscience 12, 645 (2018).
• M. Sinhuber, J. G. Ballouz, and N. T. Ouellette, "Probing the strain-rotation balance in non-Newtonian turbulence with inertial particles," Physical Review Fluids 3, 082602(R) (2018).
• A. H. Clark, J. D. Thompson, M. D. Shattuck, N. T. Ouellette, and C. S. O'Hern, "Critical scaling near the yielding transition in granular media," Physical Review E 97, 062901 (2018).
• S. L. Eagleman, C. M. Drover, D. R. Drover, N. T. Ouellette, and M. B. MacIver, "Remifentanil and nitrous oxide anesthesia produces a unique pattern of EEG activity during loss and recovery of response," Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 12, 173 (2018).
• S. Balasuriya, N. T. Ouellette, and I. I. Rypina, "Generalized Lagrangian coherent structures," Physica D 372, 31-51 (2018).
• C. A. R. Hogg, G. C. Egan, N. T. Ouellette, and J. R. Koseff, "Shoaling internal waves may reduce gravity current transport," Environmental Fluid Mechanics 18, 383-394 (2018).
• L. Fang and N. T. Ouellette, "Influence of lateral boundaries on transport in quasi-two-dimensional flow," Chaos 28, 023113 (2018). Chosen as a Featured paper in Chaos, and summarized in an AIP Scilight.
• M. H. DiBenedetto, N. T. Ouellette, and J. R. Koseff, "Transport of anisotropic particles under waves," Journal of Fluid Mechanics 837, 320-340 (2018).
• J. G. Ballouz and N. T. Ouellette, "Tensor geometry in the turbulent cascade," Journal of Fluid Mechanics 835, 1048-1064 (2018).

2017

• J. C. Salevan, A. H. Clark, M. D. Shattuck, C. S. O'Hern, and N. T. Ouellette, "Determining the onset of hydrodynamic erosion in turbulent flow," Physical Review Fluids 2, 114302 (2017).
• N. T. Ouellette, "Toward a "thermodynamics" of collective behavior," SIAM News 50, November 2017.
• M. Sinhuber and N. T. Ouellette, "Phase coexistence in insect swarms," Physical Review Letters 119, 178003 (2017). Summarized in a Research Highlight in Nature Physics.
• T. L. Mandel, I. Rosenzweig, H. Chung, N. T. Ouellette, and J. R. Koseff, "Characterizing free-surface expressions of flow instabilities by tracking submerged features," Experiments in Fluids 58, 153 (2017).
• L. Fang and N. T. Ouellette, "Multiple stages of decay in two-dimensional turbulence," Physics of Fluids 29, 111105 (2017).
• A. M. Reynolds, M. Sinhuber, and N. T. Ouellette, "Are midge swarms bound together by an effective velocity-dependent gravity?" European Physical Journal E 40, 46 (2017). Cover article, and an EPJ E Highlight.
• A. H. Clark, M. D. Shattuck, N. T. Ouellette, and C. S. O'Hern, "Role of grain dynamics in determining the onset of sediment transport," Physical Review Fluids 2, 034305 (2017).

2016

• W. M. Lord, J. Sun, N. T. Ouellette, and E. M. Bollt, "Inference of causal information flow in collective animal behavior," IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological and Multi-Scale Communication 2, 107-116 (2016).
• C. A. R. Hogg, V. Pietrasz, G. C. Egan, N. T. Ouellette, and J. R. Koseff, "The influence of a shoaling internal gravity wave on a dense gravity current," 8th International Symposium on Stratified Flows (2016).
• S. Balasuriya, R. Kalampattel, and N. T. Ouellette, "Hyperbolic neighbourhoods as organizers of finite-time exponential stretching," Journal of Fluid Mechanics 807, 509-545 (2016).
• L. Fang and N. T. Ouellette, "Advection and the efficiency of spectral energy transfer in two-dimensional turbulence," Physical Review Letters 117, 104501 (2016).
• R. Ni and N. T. Ouellette, "On the tensile strength of insect swarms," Physical Biology 13, 045002 (2016). Selected as a Physical Biology Highlight of 2016.
• A. M. Reynolds and N. T. Ouellette, "Swarm dynamics may give rise to Lévy flights," Scientific Reports 6, 30515 (2016).
• D. Gorbonos, R. Ianconescu, J. G. Puckett, R. Ni, N. T. Ouellette, and N. S. Gov, "Long-range acoustic interactions in insect swarms: An adaptive gravity model," New Journal of Physics 18, 073042 (2016). Summarized in a research news story by IOP Publishing.
• K.-C. Cheng, H.-K. Park, A. O. Tetteh, D. Zheng, N. T. Ouellette, K. C. Nadeau, and L. M. Hildemann, "Mixing and sink effects of air purifiers on indoor PM2.5 concentrations: A pilot study of eight residential homes in Fresno, California," Aerosol Science and Technology 50, 835-845 (2016).
• A. de Chaumont Quitry and N. T. Ouellette, "Concentration effects on turbulence in dilute polymer solutions far from walls," Physical Review E 93, 063116 (2016).
• T. Ma, N. T. Ouellette, and E. M. Bollt, "Stretching and folding in finite time," Chaos 26, 023112 (2016).
• N. T. Ouellette, C. A. R. Hogg, and Y. Liao, "Correlating Lagrangian structures with forcing in two-dimensional flow," Physics of Fluids 28, 015105 (2016).

2015

• R. Ni and N. T. Ouellette, "Velocity correlations in laboratory insect swarms," European Physical Journal Special Topics 224, 3271-3277 (2015).
• R. Ni, M. H. Michalski, E. Brown, N. Doan, J. Zinter, N. T. Ouellette, and G. M. Shepherd, "Optimal directional volatile transport in retronasal olfaction," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 112, 14700-14704 (2015). Summarized in stories by NPR, Scientific American, Spektrum, and others.
• A. H. Clark, M. D. Shattuck, N. T. Ouellette, and C. S. O'Hern, "Onset and cessation of motion in hydrodynamically sheared granular beds," Physical Review E 92, 042202 (2015).
• Y. Liao and N. T. Ouellette, "Correlations between the instantaneous velocity gradient and the evolution of scale-to-scale fluxes in two-dimensional flow," Physical Review E 92, 033017 (2015).
• R. Ni, J. G. Puckett, E. R. Dufresne, and N. T. Ouellette, "Intrinsic fluctuations and driven response of insect swarms," Physical Review Letters 115, 118104 (2015).
• J. G. Puckett, R. Ni, and N. T. Ouellette, "Time-frequency analysis reveals pairwise interactions in insect swarms," Physical Review Letters 114, 258103 (2015). Summarized in a story by Inside Science.
• Y. Liao and N. T. Ouellette, "Long-range ordering of turbulent stresses in two-dimensional flow," Physical Review E 91, 063004 (2015).
• N. T. Ouellette, "Empirical questions for collective-behaviour modelling," Pramana - Journal of Physics 84, 353-363 (2015).
• R. Ni, S. Kramel, N. T. Ouellette, and G. A. Voth, "Measurements of the coupling between the tumbling of rods and the velocity gradient tensor in turbulence," Journal of Fluid Mechanics 766, 202-225 (2015).

2014

• R. Ni, G. A. Voth, and N. T. Ouellette, "Extracting turbulent spectral transfer from under-resolved velocity fields," Physics of Fluids 26, 105107 (2014).
• J. G. Puckett and N. T. Ouellette, "Determining asymptotically large population sizes in insect swarms," Journal of the Royal Society Interface 11, 20140710 (2014). Summarized in a news story by Nature.
• J. G. Puckett, D. H. Kelley, and N. T. Ouellette, "Searching for effective forces in laboratory insect swarms," Scientific Reports 4, 4766 (2014).
• P. W. Miller and N. T. Ouellette, "Impact fragmentation of model flocks," Physical Review E 89, 042806 (2014). Selected for a Synopsis in Physics and highlighted by Science.
• Y. Liao and N. T. Ouellette, "Geometry of scale-to-scale energy and enstrophy transport in two-dimensional flow," Physics of Fluids 26, 045103 (2014).
• E. Fonda, D. P. Meichle, N. T. Ouellette, S. Hormoz, and D. P. Lathrop, "Direct observation of Kelvin waves excited by quantized vortex reconnection," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 111, 4707-4710 (2014). Cover article.
• R. Ni, N. T. Ouellette, and G. A. Voth, "Alignment of vorticity and rods with Lagrangian fluid stretching in turbulence," Journal of Fluid Mechanics 743, R3 (2014).

2013

• N. Khurana and N. T. Ouellette, "Stability of model flocks in turbulent-like flow," New Journal of Physics 15, 095015 (2013).
• D. H. Kelley, M. R. Allshouse, and N. T. Ouellette, "Lagrangian coherent structures separate dynamically distinct regions in fluid flow," Physical Review E 88, 013017 (2013). Selected to appear as a PRE Kaleidoscope image.
• M. Wilczek, H. Xu, N. T. Ouellette, R. Friedrich, and E. Bodenschatz, "Generation of Lagrangian intermittency in turbulence by a self-similar mechanism," New Journal of Physics 15, 055015 (2013).
• Y. Liao and N. T. Ouellette, "Spatial structure of spectral transport in two-dimensional flow," Journal of Fluid Mechanics 725, 281-298 (2013).
• R. M. Lee, D. H. Kelley, K. N. Nordstrom, N. T. Ouellette, and W. Losert, "Quantifying stretching and rearrangement in epithelial sheet migration," New Journal of Physics 15, 025036 (2013). Selected as an NJP Highlight of 2013.
• D. H. Kelley and N. T. Ouellette, "Emergent dynamics of laboratory insect swarms," Scientific Reports 3, 1073 (2013).

2012

• N. T. Ouellette, "On the dynamical role of coherent structures in turbulence," Comptes Rendus Physique 13, 866-877 (2012).
• N. Khurana and N. T. Ouellette, "Interactions between active particles and dynamical structures in chaotic flow," Physics of Fluids 24, 091902 (2012).
• Y. Liao, D. H. Kelley, and N. T. Ouellette, "Effects of forcing geometry on two-dimensional weak turbulence," Physical Review E 86, 036306 (2012).
• N. T. Ouellette, "Turbulence in two dimensions," Physics Today 65, 68-69 (2012). Also translated into Japanese and published as Parity 28, 34-36 (2013).

2011

• D. H. Kelley and N. T. Ouellette, "Spatiotemporal persistence of spectral fluxes in two-dimensional weak turbulence," Physics of Fluids 23, 115101 (2011). Selected as a Research Highlight.
• N. T. Ouellette, E. Bodenschatz, and H. Xu, "Path lengths in turbulence," Journal of Statistical Physics 145, 93-101 (2011).
• T. P. Sapsis, N. T. Ouellette, J. P. Gollub, and G. Haller, "Neutrally buoyant particle dynamics in fluid flows: Comparison of experiments with Lagrangian stochastic models," Physics of Fluids 23, 093304 (2011).
• A. de Chaumont Quitry, D. H. Kelley, and N. T. Ouellette, "Mechanisms driving shape distortion in two-dimensional flow," EPL 94, 64006 (2011).
• N. Khurana, J. Blawzdziewicz, and N. T. Ouellette, "Reduced transport of swimming particles in chaotic flow due to hydrodynamic trapping," Physical Review Letters 106, 198104 (2011).
• S. Parsa, J. S. Guasto, M. Kishore, N. T. Ouellette, J. P. Gollub, and G. A. Voth, "Rotation and alignment of rods in two-dimensional chaotic flow," Physics of Fluids 23, 043302 (2011). Cover article.
• D. H. Kelley and N. T. Ouellette, "Onset of three-dimensionality in electromagnetically forced thin-layer flows," Physics of Fluids 23, 045103 (2011).
• D. H. Kelley and N. T. Ouellette, "Separating stretching from folding in fluid mixing," Nature Physics 7, 477-480 (2011).
• D. H. Kelley and N. T. Ouellette, "Using particle tracking to measure flow instabilities in an undergraduate laboratory experiment," American Journal of Physics 79, 267-273 (2011). Cover article.

2010

• D. H. Kelley and N. T. Ouellette, "Scale-local velocity fields from particle-tracking data," Chaos 20, 041106 (2010).
• N. T. Ouellette, "Particle-based measurement techniques for soft matter," in Experimental and Computational Techniques in Soft Condensed Matter Physics, ed. J. Olafsen, pp. 180-208 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2010).
• S. T. Merrifield, D. H. Kelley, and N. T. Ouellette, "Scale-dependent statistical geometry in two-dimensional flow," Physical Review Letters 104, 254501 (2010).

2009

• N. T. Ouellette, H. Xu, and E. Bodenschatz, "Bulk turbulence in dilute polymer solutions," Journal of Fluid Mechanics 629, 375-385 (2009).

2008

• N. T. Ouellette and J. P. Gollub, "Detecting topological features of chaotic fluid flow," Chaos 18, 041102 (2008).
• N. T. Ouellette, P. J. J. O'Malley, and J. P. Gollub, "Transport of finite-sized particles in chaotic flow," Physical Review Letters 101, 174504 (2008). Chosen as an Editor's Selection paper.
• N. T. Ouellette and J. P. Gollub, "Dynamic topology in spatiotemporal chaos," Physics of Fluids 20, 064104 (2008).
• A. Arneodo, R. Benzi, J. Berg, L. Biferale, E. Bodenschatz, A. Busse, E. Calzavarini, B. Castaing, M. Cencini, L. Chevillard, R. Fisher, R. Grauer, H. Homann, D. Lamb, A. S. Lanotte, E. Leveque, B. Luethi, J. Mann, N. Mordant, W.-C. Mueller, S. Ott, N. T. Ouellette, J.-F. Pinton, S. B. Pope, S. G. Roux, F. Toschi, H. Xu, and P. K. Yeung, "Universal intermittent properties of particle trajectories in highly turbulent flows," Physical Review Letters 100, 254504 (2008).
• L. Biferale, E. Bodenschatz, M. Cencini, A. S. Lanotte, N. T. Ouellette, F. Toschi, and H. Xu, "Lagrangian structure functions in turbulence: A quantitative comparison between experiment and direct numerical simulation," Physics of Fluids 20, 065103 (2008).
• H. Xu, N. T. Ouellette, and E. Bodenschatz, "Evolution of geometric structures in intense turbulence," New Journal of Physics 10, 013012 (2008). Chosen as an IOP Select paper.

2007

• H. Xu, N. T. Ouellette, D. Vincenzi, and E. Bodenschatz, "Acceleration correlations and pressure structure functions in high-Reynolds number turbulence," Physical Review Letters 99, 204501 (2007).
• N. T. Ouellette and J. P. Gollub, "Curvature fields, topology, and the dynamics of spatiotemporal chaos," Physical Review Letters 99, 194502 (2007).
• H. Xu, N. T. Ouellette, and E. Bodenschatz, "Multi-particle statistics - Lines, shapes, and volumes in high Reynolds number turbulence," Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Nonlinear Mechanics, ed. W.-Z. Chien, pp. 1155-1161 (2007).
• H. Xu, N. T. Ouellette, H. Nobach, and E. Bodenschatz, "Experimental measurements of Lagrangian statistics in intense turbulence," Advances in Turbulence XI: Proceedings of the 11th EUROMECH European Turbulence Conference, ed. J. M. L. M. Palma and A. Silva Lopes, pp. 1-10 (2007).
• N. T. Ouellette, H. Xu, and E. Bodenschatz, "Measuring Lagrangian statistics in intense turbulence," in Springer Handbook of Experimental Fluid Dynamics, ed. C. Tropea, A. L. Yarin, and J. F. Foss, pp. 789-799 (Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2007).
• H. Xu, N. T. Ouellette, and E. Bodenschatz, "Curvature of Lagrangian trajectories in turbulence," Physical Review Letters 98, 050201 (2007).

2006

• N. T. Ouellette, H. Xu, K. Chang, and E. Bodenschatz, "Statistical geometry in intensely turbulent flow," Proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on Flow Visualization, ed. I. Grant, paper 167 (2006).
• K. Chang, N. T. Ouellette, H. Xu, and E. Bodenschatz, "Lagrangian particle tracking in high Reynolds number turbulence," Euromech Colloquium 477: Particle-Laden Flow: from Geophysical to Kolmogorov Scales (2006).
• N. T. Ouellette, H. Xu, M. Bourgoin, and E. Bodenschatz, "An experimental study of turbulent relative dispersion models," New Journal of Physics 8, 109 (2006).
• N. T. Ouellette, H. Xu, M. Bourgoin, and E. Bodenschatz, "Small-scale anisotropy in Lagrangian turbulence," New Journal of Physics 8, 102 (2006).
• H. Xu, N. T. Ouellette, and E. Bodenschatz, "Multifractal dimension of Lagrangian turbulence," Physical Review Letters 96, 114503 (2006).
• M. Bourgoin, N. T. Ouellette, H. Xu, J. Berg, and E. Bodenschatz, "The role of pair dispersion in turbulent flow," Science 311, 835-838 (2006).
• H. Xu, M. Bourgoin, N. T. Ouellette, and E. Bodenschatz, "High order Lagrangian velocity statistics in turbulence," Physical Review Letters 96, 024503 (2006).
• N. T. Ouellette, H. Xu, and E. Bodenschatz, "A quantitative study of three-dimensional Lagrangian particle tracking algorithms," Experiments in Fluids 40, 301-313 (2006).

2005

• H. Nobach, N. T. Ouellette, E. Bodenschatz, and C. Tropea, "Full-field correlation-based image processing for PIV," Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Particle Image Velocimetry (2005).

Theses

• N. T. Ouellette, "Probing the Statistical Structure of Turbulence with Measurements of Tracer Particle Tracks," Cornell University, 2006.