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Selected Publications (last 10 years)

• Enhancement of biomixing by swimming algal cells in two-dimensional films

  H. Kurtuldu, J. S. Guasto, K. A. Johnson, J. P. Gollub

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 108, 10391 (Jun 28, 2011). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.110704610

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• Rotation and alignment of rods in two-dimensional chaotic flow

  S. Parsa, J.S. Guasto, M. Kishore, N.T. Ouellette, J.P. Gollub, G.A. Voth  

  Physics of Fluids  23, I043302 (APR 2011)  DOI: 10.1063/1.3570526   

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• Oscillatory Flows Induced by Microorganisms Swimming in Two Dimensions

  J. S. Guasto, K. A. Johnson, J. P. Gollub

  Physical Review Letters 105, 168102 (Oct, 2010). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.168102

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• Hydrodynamic irreversibility in particle suspensions with nonuniform strain

  J. S. Guasto, A. S. Ross, J. P. Gollub

  Physical Review E 81, 061401 (Jun, 2010). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.81.061401

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• Microfluidic Rheology of Soft Colloids above and below Jamming

  K.N. Nordstrom, E . Verneuil, ; P.E. Arratia, A. Basu, Z. Zhang, A.G. Yodh, J.P. Gollub, D.J. Durian

  Physical Review Letters 105, 175701 (Oct, 2010). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.175701

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• Centrifugal compression of soft particle packings: Theory and experiment

  K.N. Nordstrom, E. Verneuil, W.G. Ellenbroek, T.C Lubensky, J.P. Gollub, D.J. Durian
  Physical Review E82, 041403 (OCT 8 2010). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.82.041403   

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• Dynamics of Enhanced Tracer Diffusion in Suspensions of Swimming Eukaryotic Microorganisms

  K. C. Leptos, J. S. Guasto, J. P. Gollub, A. I. Pesci, R. E. Goldstein

  Physical Review Letters 103, 198103 (Nov 6, 2009). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.198103

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• The effects of polymer molecular weight on filament thinning and drop breakup in microchannels

  P.E. Arratia, L.A. Cramer, J.P. Gollub , D.J. Durian

  New Journal of Physics 11, 115006 (NOV 4 2009). DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/11/11/115006

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• Chlamydomonas Swims with Two "Gears" in a Eukaryotic Version of Run-and-Tumble Locomotion.

  M. Polin, I. Tuval, K. Drescher, J. P. Gollub, R. E. Goldstein

  Science 325, 487 (Jul, 2009). DOI: 10.1126/science.1172667

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• Detecting topological features of chaotic fluid flow

  N. T. Ouellette, J. P. Gollub

  Chaos 18, 041102 (Dec 2008) DOI: 10.1063/1.2997332   

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• Transport of Finite Sized Particles in Chaotic Flow

  Nicholas T. Ouellette, P.J.J. OÇMalley, and J.P. Gollub

  Physical Review Letters 101, 174504 (2008).

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• Polymeric Filament Thinning and Breakup in Microchannels

  P.E. Arratia, J.P. Gollub, and D.J. Durian

  Physical Review E, 77 036309 (2008).

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• Stretching Fields and Mixing in Two-Dimensional Turbulence

  M.J. Twardos, P.E. Arratia, M.K. Riverea, G.A. Voth, J.P. Gollub, and R.E. Ecke

  Physical Review E 056315 (2008)

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• Random Organization in Periodically Driven Systems

  Laurent Corte, Paul M. Chaikin, J.P. Gollub, and David J. Pine

  Nature Physics 4, 420 (2008)

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• Dynamic Topology in Spatiotemporal Chaos

  Nicholas T. Ouellette and J.P. Gollub

  Physics of Fluids 20, 064104 (2008)

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• Curvature Fields, Topology, and the Dynamics of Spatiotemporal Chaos

  Nicholas T. Ouellette and J.P. Gollub

  Physical Review Letters 99, 194502 (2007)

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• Comparing flow thresholds and dynamics for oscillating and inclined granular layers

  S. Aumaitre, C. Puls, J.N. McElwaine, and J.P. Gollub

  Physical Review E 75, 061307 (2007)

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• Microscopic Irreversibility and Chaos

  J.P. Gollub and D.J. Pine

  Physics Today, August 2006

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• Predicting the Progress of Diffusively Limited Chemical Reactions in the Presence of Chaotic Advection

  P.E. Arratia and J.P. Gollub

  Physical Review Letters 96, 024501 (2006)

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• Elastic instabilities of polymer solutions in cross channel flow

  P.E. Arratia, C.C. Thomas, J. Diorio, and J.P. Gollub

  Physical Review Letters 96, 144502 (2006)

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• A Chiral Granular Gas of Rattlebacks

  JC Tsai, M. Rodriguez, Fangfu Ye, J.P. Gollub, and T.C. Lubensky

  Physical Review Letters 94, 214301 (2005)

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• Reflections on Teaching: Learning from Students

  J.P. Gollub

  Physics Today, Invited Column (May 2005)

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• Chaos and Threshold for Irreversibility in Sheared Suspensions

  D.J. Pine, J.P. Gollub, J.F. Brady, and A.M. Leshansky

  Nature 438, 997 (2005)

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• Structures and Chaotic Fluctuations of Granular Clusters in a Vibrated Fluid Layer

  C.C. Thomas and J.P. Gollub

  Physical Review E 70, 061305 (2004)

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• Continuum Mechanics in Physics Education

  J.P. Gollub

  Physics Today, Reference Frame, December 2003

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• Mixing Rates and Symmetry Breaking in 2D Chaotic Flow

  G.A. Voth, T. Saint, G. Dobler, and J.P. Gollub

  Physics of Fluids, 15, 2560-66 (2003).

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• Internal Granular Dynamics, Shear Induced Crystallization, and Compaction Steps

  *J.P. Gollub, G. Voth, and J.C. Tsai

  Physical Review Letters, 91, 064301 (2003)

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• Experimental Measurements of Stretching Fields in Fluid Mixing

  G.A. Voth, G.H. Haller, and J.P. Gollub

  Physical Review Letters 88, 254501 (2002)

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• Ordered Clusters and Dynamical States of Particles in a Vibrated Fluid

  G.A. Voth, B. Bigger, M.R. Buckley, W. Losert, M.P. Brenner, H.A. Stone, and J.P. Gollub

  Physical Review Letters 88, 234301 (2002)

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• Advanced Physics in the High Schools

  J.P. Gollub and Robin Spital

  Physics Today, 47-53 (May 2002)

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• Scarred Patterns in Surface Waves

  Kudrolli, M.C. Abraham, and J.P. Gollub

  Physical Review E, 63, 026208 (2001)

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Some Older Publications:

• *W. Losert, J.-C. Geminard, S. Nasuno, and J.P. Gollub, "Mechanisms for Slow Strengthening in Granular Materials", Physical Review E./ 61, 4060 (2000).
• J.P. Gollub and M.C. Cross, "Chaos in Space and Time", Nature 404, 710-711 (2000).
• W. Losert, L. Boquet, T.C. Lubensky, and J.P. Gollub, "Particle Dynamics in Sheared Granular Matter", Physical Review Letters, 85, 1428 (2000).
• *J.-C. Geminard, W. Losert, and J.P. Gollub, "Frictional Mechanics of Wet Granular Material," Physical Review E 59, 5881-90, 1999.
• *W. Losert, D.G.W. Cooper, and J.P. Gollub, Propagating Front in an Excited Granular Layer," Physical Review E, 59, 5855-61 (1999).
• *D. Rothstein, E. Henry, and J.P. Gollub, "Persistent Patterns in Transient Chaotic Fluid Mixing", Nature 401, 770-772, 1999.
• *J. Delour, A. Kudrolli, and J.P. Gollub, "Velocity Distributions in Excited Granular Media", Chaos, 9, 682-690 (1999).
• J.P.Gollub and J.S. Langer, "Pattern Formation in Nonequilibrium Physics", in the Centennial Issue of Reviews of Modern Physics, 71, S396-S403 (1999).
• "Superlattice Patterns in Surface Waves", A. Kudrolli, B. Pier, and J.P. Gollub, Physica D (1998).
• "Friction in granular layers: Hysteresis and Precursors", S. Nasuno, A. Kudrolli, and J.P. Gollub, Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 949 (1997).
• "Cluster Formation due to Collisions in Granular Material", A. Kudrolli, M. Wolpert, and J.P. Gollub, Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 1383 (1997).
• Chaotic Dynamics: An Introduction, G.L. Baker and J.P. Gollub, (Cambridge University Press, 1990 and 1996). (Textbook)
• "Inverting Chaos: Extracting System Parameters from Experimental Data", L. Baker, J.P. Gollub, and J.A. Blackburn, Chaos 6, 528-53 (1997).
• "Mixing of a Passive Scalar in Magnetically Forced Two-Dimensional Turbulence", B. Williams, D. Marteau, and J.P. Gollub, Physics of Fluids 9, 2061-80 (1997).
• "Localized Spatiotemporal Chaos in Surface Waves", A. Kudrolli and J.P. Gollub, Phys. Rev. E 54, R1052-55, 1996.
• "Three Dimensional Instabilities of Film Flows," J. Liu, J.B. Schneider, and J.P. Gollub, Phys. Fluids A 7, 55-67 (1995).
• "Statistical Studies of Chaotic Wave Patterns", B. J. Gluckman, C.B. Arnold, and J.P. Gollub, Phys. Rev. E 51, 1128-51 (1995).
• "Order and Disorder in Fluid Motion", J.P. Gollub, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 92, 6705-11 (1995). (A review of our work over an extended period of time.)
• "Transition to Spatiotemporal Chaos via Spatially Subharmonic Oscillations of a Periodic Front," D. P. Vallette, W.S. Edwards, and J.P. Gollub, Phys. Rev. E 49, R4783-86 (1994).
• "Geometry of Isothermal and Isoconcentration Surfaces in Thermal Turbulence," B.J. Gluckman, H. Willaime, and J.P. Gollub, Phys. Fluids A 5, 647 (1993).
• "Transport by Capillary Waves, Part II: Scalar Dispersion and the Structure of the Concentration field," R. Ramshankar and J.P. Gollub, Phys. Fluids A 3, 1344 (1991).
• "Fluctuations and Transport in a Stirred Fluid with a Mean Gradient," J.P. Gollub, J. Clark, M. Gharib, B. Lane, and O.N. Mesquita, Phys. Rev. Lett. 67, 3507 (1991).
• "Surface Wave Mode Interactions: Effects of Symmetry and Degeneracy," Simonelli and J. P. Gollub, J. Fluid Mech. 199, 471 (1989).
• "Chaotic Particle Transport in Rayleigh-Benard Convection," T.H. Solomon and J.P. Gollub, Phys. Rev. A 38, 6280 (1988).
• "Steady State Dendritic Growth of NH4Br from Solution," A. Dougherty and J.P. Gollub, Phys. Rev. A. 38, 3043 (1988).
• "Wave-Vector Field of Convective Flow Patterns," M. S. Heutmaker and J. P. Gollub, Physical Review A 35, 242 (1987).
• "Development of Sidebranching in Dendritic Crystal Growth," A. Dougherty, P. D. Kaplan, and J. P. Gollub, Phys. Rev. Lett. 58, 1652 (1987).
• "Dendritic and Fractal Patterns in Electrolytic Metal Deposits," Y. Sawada, A. Dougherty, and J.P. Gollub, Phys. Rev. Lett. 56, 1260 (1986).
• "Pattern Competition Leads to Chaos," S. Ciliberto and J.P. Gollub, Phys. Rev. Lett. 52, 922 (1984).
• "Commensurate and Incommensurate Structures in a Nonequilibrium System," M.L. Lowe, J.P. Gollub, and T.C. Lubensky, Phys. Rev. Lett. 51, 786 (1983).
• "Many Routes to Turbulent Convection," J.P. Gollub and S.V. Benson, J. Fluid Mech. 100, 449 (1980).
• "Hydrodynamic Instabilities and the Transition to Turbulence," H.L. Swinney and J.P. Gollub, Physics Today (August 1978).