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  • 2003 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For his work in nonequilibrium statistical mechanics, in particular on the foundation of transport laws in chaotic dynamical systems, on fieldtheoretic methods in statistical hydrodynamics and on singularities and dissipative anomalies in fluid turbulence

Overview

Gregory L. Eyink is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on engineering, with a significant concentration in computational mechanics. Contributions also extend into subfields such as statistical and nonlinear physics, global and planetary change, atmospheric science, and applied mathematics.

The work spans various topics within these fields, including:

  • Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows
  • Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Particle Dynamics in Fluid Flows
  • Navier-Stokes Equation Solutions
  • Heat Transfer Mechanisms

Eyink has published extensively in both journals and preprint archives. The frequent venues include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • Physical Review E
  • Physical Review Letters
  • Physics of Fluids

Recent notable publications by Gregory L. Eyink include:

  • "Onsager's 'ideal turbulence' theory," 2024, Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • "Stochastic Lagrangian dynamics of vorticity. Part 1. General theory for viscous, incompressible fluids," 2020, Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • "Dissipation-range fluid turbulence and thermal noise," 2022, Physical Review E
  • "Thermal fluctuations in the dissipation range of homogeneous isotropic turbulence," 2022, Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • "Spontaneous Stochasticity Amplifies Even Thermal Noise to the Largest Scales of Turbulence in a Few Eddy Turnover Times," 2024, Physical Review Letters

Frequent collaborators of Eyink include:

  • Samvit Kumar
  • Tamer A. Zaki
  • Nigel Goldenfeld
  • Dmytro Bandak
  • Alexei A. Mailybaev

Among the recognitions received, Gregory L. Eyink was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2003. This distinction cited their work in nonequilibrium statistical mechanics, specifically on the foundation of transport laws in chaotic dynamical systems, field-theoretic methods in statistical hydrodynamics, and on singularities and dissipative anomalies in fluid turbulence.

Best Publications

  • A public turbulence database cluster and applications to study Lagrangian evolution of velocity increments in turbulence

    Yi Li;Eric Perlman;Minping Wan;Yunke Yang

  • Onsager and the theory of hydrodynamic turbulence

    Gregory L. Eyink;Katepalli R. Sreenivasan

  • Energy dissipation without viscosity in ideal hydrodynamics I. Fourier analysis and local energy transfer

    Gregory L. Eyink

  • Steady-state electrical conduction in the periodic Lorentz gas

    N. I. Chernov;G. L. Eyink;Joel Lebowitz;Ya G. Sinai

  • The joint cascade of energy and helicity in three-dimensional turbulence

    Qiaoning Chen;Shiyi Chen;Gregory L. Eyink

  • A Web services accessible database of turbulent channel flow and its use for testing a new integral wall model for LES

    J. Graham;K. Kanov;X. I. A. Yang;M. Lee

  • Locality of turbulent cascades

    Gregory L. Eyink

  • Physical mechanism of the two-dimensional inverse energy cascade.

    Shiyi Chen;Robert E. Ecke;Gregory L. Eyink;Gregory L. Eyink;Michael Rivera

  • Derivation of Ohm's law in a deterministic mechanical model.

    N. I. Chernov;G. L. Eyink;J. L. Lebowitz;Ya. G. Sinai

  • FAST MAGNETIC RECONNECTION AND SPONTANEOUS STOCHASTICITY

    Gregory L. Eyink;Alex Lazarian;Ethan T. Vishniac

  • Flux-freezing breakdown in high-conductivity magnetohydrodynamic turbulence

    Gregory L. Eyink;Ethan Vishniac;Cristian Constantin Lalescu;Hussein Aluie;Hussein Aluie

  • Negative-temperature states and large-scale, long-lived vortices in two-dimensional turbulence

    G. L. Eyink;H. Spohn

  • Physical Mechanism of the Two-Dimensional Enstrophy Cascade

    Shiyi Chen;Shiyi Chen;Robert E. Ecke;Gregory L. Eyink;Xin Wang

  • Physical mechanism of the inverse energy cascade of two-dimensional turbulence : a numerical investigation

    Z. Xiao;M. Wan;S. Chen;G. L. Eyink

  • The renormalization group method in statistical hydrodynamics

    Gregory L. Eyink

  • Scale Locality of Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence

    Hussein Aluie;Hussein Aluie;Gregory L. Eyink

  • Hydrodynamics and fluctuations outside of local equilibrium: Driven diffusive systems

    Gregory L. Eyink;Joel L. Lebowitz;Herbert Spohn

  • Local energy flux and the refined similarity hypothesis

    Gregory L. Eyink

  • Stochastic flux freezing and magnetic dynamo.

    Gregory L. Eyink

  • Resonant interactions in rotating homogeneous three-dimensional turbulence

    Qiaoning Chen;Shiyi Chen;Gregory L. Eyink;Darryl D. Holm

  • Localness of energy cascade in hydrodynamic turbulence. I. Smooth coarse graining

    Gregory L. Eyink;Hussein Aluie

Frequent Co-Authors

Shiyi Chen
Shiyi Chen Southern University of Science and Technology
Charles Meneveau
Charles Meneveau Johns Hopkins University
Alexander S. Szalay
Alexander S. Szalay Johns Hopkins University
Randal Burns
Randal Burns Johns Hopkins University
Minping Wan
Minping Wan Southern University of Science and Technology
Jack Xin
Jack Xin University of California, Irvine
Joel L. Lebowitz
Joel L. Lebowitz Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Darryl D. Holm
Darryl D. Holm Imperial College London
Alex Lazarian
Alex Lazarian University of Wisconsin–Madison
Katepalli R. Sreenivasan
Katepalli R. Sreenivasan New York University

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