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Nicholas T. Ouellette

Nicholas T. Ouellette

D-Index & Metrics

Engineering and Technology

D-Index
38
Citations
4794
World Ranking
8165
National Ranking
2253

Nicholas T. Ouellette publication distribution in Engineering and Technology in 2026

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38 publications 804+

This scientist: 220 publications — 55th percentile

55% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Nicholas T. Ouellette D-index placement in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Engineering and Technology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Nicholas T. Ouellette sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 107+

This scientist: 38 D-Index — 20th percentile

20% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Nicholas T. Ouellette is a researcher affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their work spans multiple interdisciplinary fields including engineering, environmental science, and earth and planetary sciences. Within these broad areas, they focus on specific subfields such as computational mechanics, earth-surface processes, genetics, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, and ocean engineering.

The main topics of their research include insect and arachnid ecology and behavior, particle dynamics in fluid flows, fluid dynamics and turbulent flows, animal behavior and reproduction, aeolian processes and effects, hydrology and sediment transport processes, and ecosystem dynamics and resilience.

Ouellette has published extensively in journals that address fluid dynamics, environmental science, and biological behavior. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Physical Review Fluids
  • Journal of Fluid Mechanics
  • Journal of The Royal Society Interface
  • Physical Biology
  • Physical review. E

Their recent papers demonstrate a focus on collective behavior and environmental interactions, with selected works including:

  • "Synergistic interactions among growing stressors increase risk to an Arctic ecosystem" (2020, Nature Communications)
  • "A physics perspective on collective animal behavior" (2022, Physical Biology)
  • "Environmental perturbations induce correlations in midge swarms" (2020, Journal of The Royal Society Interface)
  • "Goals and Limitations of Modeling Collective Behavior in Biological Systems" (2021, Frontiers in Physics)
  • "An equation of state for insect swarms" (2021, Scientific Reports)

Throughout their research career, Ouellette has frequently collaborated with several scientists, including:

  • Jeffrey R. Koseff
  • Kasper van der Vaart
  • Michael Sinhuber
  • Lei Fang
  • Laura K. C. Sunberg

Best Publications

  • A quantitative study of three-dimensional Lagrangian particle tracking algorithms

    Nicholas T. Ouellette;Haitao Xu;Eberhard Bodenschatz

  • The Role of Pair Dispersion in turbulent flow

    Mickaël Bourgoin;Nicholas T. Ouellette;Haitao Xu;Jacob Berg

  • Universal Intermittent Properties of Particle Trajectories in Highly Turbulent Flows

    Alain Arnéodo;R. Benzi;J. Berg;L. Biferale

  • Emergent dynamics of laboratory insect swarms.

    Douglas H. Kelley;Nicholas T. Ouellette

  • Direct observation of Kelvin waves excited by quantized vortex reconnection

    Enrico Fonda;David P. Meichle;Nicholas T. Ouellette;Sahand Hormoz

  • An Experimental Study of Turbulent Relative Dispersion Models

    Nicholas T. Ouellette;Haitao Xu;Mickael Bourgoin;Eberhard Bodenschatz

  • Small-scale anisotropy in Lagrangian turbulence

    Nicholas T. Ouellette;Haitao Xu;Mickael Bourgoin;Eberhard Bodenschatz

  • Transport of Finite-Sized Particles in Chaotic Flow

    Nicholas Ouellette;P.J.J. O'Malley;J.P. Gollub

  • Using particle tracking to measure flow instabilities in an undergraduate laboratory experiment

    Douglas H. Kelley;Nicholas T. Ouellette

  • Transport of Finite-Sized Particles in Chaotic Flow

    Nicholas T. Ouellette;P. J. J. O'Malley;Jerry P. Gollub;Jerry P. Gollub

  • High order Lagrangian velocity statistics in turbulence.

    Haitao Xu;Mickaël Bourgoin;Nicholas T. Ouellette;Eberhard Bodenschatz

  • Alignment of vorticity and rods with Lagrangian fluid stretching in turbulence

    Rui Ni;Nicholas T. Ouellette;Greg A. Voth

  • Lagrangian structure functions in turbulence : a quantitative comparison between experiment and direct numerical simulation

    Luca Biferale;Eberhard Bodenschatz;Massimo Cencini;Alessandra S. Lanotte

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

    Shima Parsa;Jeffrey S. Guasto;Monica Kishore;Nicholas T. Ouellette

  • Generalized Lagrangian coherent structures

    Sanjeeva Balasuriya;Nicholas T. Ouellette;Irina I. Rypina

  • Measurements of the coupling between the tumbling of rods and the velocity gradient tensor in turbulence

    Rui Ni;Stefan Kramel;Nicholas T. Ouellette;Greg A. Voth

  • Bulk turbulence in dilute polymer solutions

    Nicholas T. Ouellette;Haitao Xu;Eberhard Bodenschatz

  • Curvature of lagrangian trajectories in turbulence.

    Haitao Xu;Nicholas T. Ouellette;Eberhard Bodenschatz

  • Transport of anisotropic particles under waves

    Michelle H. DiBenedetto;Nicholas T. Ouellette;Jeffrey R. Koseff

  • Onset of three-dimensionality in electromagnetically driven thin-layer flows

    Douglas H. Kelley;Nicholas T. Ouellette

  • Behavioural plasticity and the transition to order in jackdaw flocks.

    Hangjian Ling;Hangjian Ling;Guillam E. Mclvor;Joseph Westley;Kasper van der Vaart

  • Reduced transport of swimming particles in chaotic flow due to hydrodynamic trapping.

    Nidhi Khurana;Jerzy Blawzdziewicz;Nicholas T. Ouellette

  • Rotation and Alignment of Rods in Two-Dimensional Chaotic Flow

    Jerry Gollub;Jeffrey Guasto;Monica Kishore;Shima Parsa Moghaddam

Frequent Co-Authors

Eberhard Bodenschatz
Eberhard Bodenschatz Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization
Haitao Xu
Haitao Xu University of Science and Technology Beijing
Jeffrey R. Koseff
Jeffrey R. Koseff Stanford University
Jerry P. Gollub
Jerry P. Gollub Haverford College
Alex Thornton
Alex Thornton University of Exeter
Daniel P. Lathrop
Daniel P. Lathrop University of Maryland, College Park
Erik M. Bollt
Erik M. Bollt Clarkson University
Federico Toschi
Federico Toschi Eindhoven University of Technology
Katepalli R. Sreenivasan
Katepalli R. Sreenivasan New York University

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