Publications

• Barriers and chutes for mixing of active particles in a vortex chain flow, Nghia Le, Casey M. Miller, Julianna S. Detrick, Cameron R. Lodi, Kevin A. Mitchell and Thomas H. Solomon, Phys. Rev. Fluids9 (2024), DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevFluids.9.054501 Click here for a PDF reprint.

• Barriers Impeding Active Mixing of Swimming Microbes in a Hyperbolic Flow, Helena Yoest, John Buggeln, Minh Doan, Payton Johnson, Simon A. Berman, Kevin A. Mitchell and Thomas H. Solomon, Front. Phys. 25 (2022), DOI=10.3389/fphy.2022.861616. Click here for a PDF reprint.

• Transport barriers to self-propelled particles in fluid flows, Simon A. Berman, John Buggeln, David A. Brantley, Kevin A. Mitchell, and Thomas H. Solomon, Phys. Rev. Fluids6 L012501 (2021). Click here for a PDF reprint and here for the Supplemental Material.

• How to Make the GPA Less Flawed, Adam Piggot and Tom Solmon, Inside Higher ed, May 7, 2019. Click here to read the op-ed online.

• Barriers to Front Propagation in Laminar, Three-Dimensional Fluid Flows, Minh Doan, J.J. Simons, Katherine Lilienthal, Tom Solomon and Kevin A. Mmitchell, Phys. Rev. E 97 033111 (2018) (Editor's Suggestion). Click here for a PDF reprint.

• GPAs Don't Really Show What Students Learned. Here's Why, Tom Solomon and Adam Piggot, The Washington Post, June 15, 2018. Click here to read the op-ed online.

• Scientific Theories Aren't Mere Conjecture -- To Survive They Must Work, Tom Solmon, The Conversation, March 7, 2017. Click here to read the op-ed online.

• Frozen Reaction Fronts in Steady Flows: A Burning-Invariant-Manifold Perspective, John R. Mahoney, John Li, Carleen Boyer, Tom Solomon, and Kevin A. Mitchell, Phys. Rev. E 92, 063005 (2015). Click here for a PDF reprint.

• Experimental Studies of Coherent Structures in an Advection-Reaction-Diffusion System, Savannah Gowen and Tom Solomon, Chaos 25, 087403 (2015). Click here for a PDF reprint.

• Chaos and chaotic fluid mixing,, Tom Solomon, Snapshots of Modern Mathematics from Oberwolfach project, 2015. Click here for a PDF reprint or click here to go to the www.imaginary.org web site.

• Pinning of Reaction Fronts by Burning Invariant Manifolds in Extended Flows,, P.W. Megson, M.L. Najarian, K.E. Lilienthal and T.H. Solomon, Phys. Fluids 27, 023601 (2015). Click here for a PDF reprint.

• Barriers to Front Propagation in Ordered and Disordered Vortex Flows,, Dylan Bargteil and Tom Solomon, Chaos 22, 037103 (2012). Click here for a PDF reprint.

• Invariant Barriers to Reactive Front Propagation in Fluid Flows, John Mahoney, Dylan Bargteil, Mark Kingsbury, Kevin Mitchell and Tom Solomon, Europhys. Lett. 98, 44005 (2012). Click here for a PDF reprint.

• Pinning and Mode-Locking of Reaction Fronts by Vortices, Garrett M. O'Malley, Matthew S. Paoletti, Mollie E. Schwartz, Thomas H. Solomon, Commun. Nonlinear Sci. Numer. Simulat. 16, 4558-4563 (2011). Click here for a PDF reprint.

• The Effects of Laminar Mixing on Reaction Fronts and Patterns," Tom Solomon, in Transport and Mixing in Laminar Flows, Ed. Roman Grigoriev and H.-G. Schuster, Wiley-VCH (2011). Click here for a PDF.

• Fronts and Trigger Wave Patterns in an Array of Oscillating Vortices, J.R. Boehmer and T.H. Solomon, Europhys. Lett. 83, 58002 (2008). Click here for a reprint.

• Chemical Reaction Fronts in Ordered and Disordered Cellular Flows with Opposing Winds, M.E. Schwartz and T.H. Solomon, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 028302 (2008). Click here for a reprint.

• Experimental Studies of Advection-reaction-diffusion Systems, T.H. Solomon, M.S. Paoletti and M. E. Schwartz, Proceedings of ``Chaos, Complexity and Transport (CCT07)'' conference, Marseille, France (2007). Click here for a reprint.

• Synchronization of Oscillating Reactions in an Extended Fluid System, M.S. Paoletti, C. R. Nugent and T.H. Solomon, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 124101 (2006). Click here for a reprint.

• Experiments on pattern formation in reacting systems with chaotic advection, T. H. Solomon , M. S. Paoletti and C. R. Nugent, Proceedings of 2006 International Conference on Nonlinear Science and Complexity, Beijing, China (2006). Click here for a preprint.

• Front propagation and mode-locking in an advection-reaction-diffusion system, M.S. Paoletti and T.H. Solomon, Phys. Rev. E 72, 046204 (2005). Click here for a reprint.

• Experimental studies of front propagation and mode-locking in an advection-reaction-diffusion system, M. S. Paoletti and T. H. Solomon, Europhys. Lett. 69, 819-825 (2005). Click here for a reprint.

• Experimental studies of pattern formation in a reaction-advection-diffusion system, C.R. Nugent, W.M. Quarles and T.H. Solomon, Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 218301 (2004). Click here for a reprint.

• Uniform resonant chaotic mixing in fluid flows, T.H. Solomon and Igor Mezic, Nature 425, 376-380 (2003). Click here for a reprint.

• Lagrangian chaos and multiphase processes in vortex flows, Thomas H. Solomon*, Brian R. Wallace, Nathan S. Miller and Courtney J. L.. Spohn, to appear in Comm. Nonlin. Sci. (2003). Click here for a preprint.

• Lagrangian chaos: Transport, coupling and phase separation, Thomas H. Solomon, Nathan S. Miller, Courtney J. L. Spohn, and Jeffrey P. Moeur, to appear in Proceedings of 7th Experimental Chaos Conference, San Diego, CA (2002). Click here for preprint.

• Resonant flights and transient superdiffusion in a time-periodic, two-dimensional flow, T.H. Solomon, A.T. Lee, and M.A. Fogleman, Physica D 157, 40-53 (2001). Click here for PDF reprint.

• Lagrangian chaos and correlated Levy flights in a non-Beltrami flow: transient versus long-term transport, M.A. Fogleman, M.J. Fawcett, and T.H. Solomon, Phys. Rev. E 63 020101(R), (February, 2001). Click here for PDF reprint.

• Aggregation and chimney formation during the solidification of ammonium chloride, T.H. Solomon, R.R. Hartley and A.T. Lee, Phys. Rev. E, 60, 3063-3071 (1999). Click here for reprint.

• Chaotic mixing of immiscible and immiscible impurities in a two-dimensional flow, T.H. Solomon, S. Tomas and J.L. Warner, Phys. Fluids 10, 342-350 (1998). Click here for preprint.

• Measurements of the temperature field of mushy and liquid regions during solidification of aqueous ammonium chloride, J. Fluid Mech. 358, 87-106 (1998). Click here for preprint.

• The Role of Lobes in Chaotic Mixing of Miscible and Immiscible Impurities, T.H. Solomon, S. Tomas and J.L. Warner, Phys. Rev. Lett., 77, 2682-2685 (1996). Click here for reprint

• Chaotic Advection in a Two-Dimensional Flow: Lévy Flights and Anomalous Diffusion, T.H. Solomon, Eric R. Weeks and Harry L. Swinney, Physica D 76, 70-84 (1994).

• Long-Term Tracking of Neutrally-Buoyant Tracer Particles in Two-Dimensional Fluid Flows, M.S. Pervez and T.H. Solomon, Exp. Fluids 17, 135-140 (1994).

• Observation of Anomalous Diffusion and Lévy Flights in a Two-Dimensional Rotating Flow, T.H. Solomon, Eric R. Weeks and Harry L. Swinney, Phys. Rev. Lett. 71, 3975-3978 (1993). Click here for reprint.

• Shear Flow Instabilities and Rossby Waves in Barotropic Flow in a Rotating Annulus, T.H. Solomon, W.J. Holloway and Harry L. Swinney, Phys. Fluids A 5, 1971-1982 (1992).

• Thermal Boundary Layers and Heat Flux in Turbulent Convection: The Role of Recirculating Flows, T.H. Solomon and J.P. Gollub, Phys. Rev. A 43, 6683-6693 (1991). Click here for reprint.

• Sheared Boundary Layers in Turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard Convection, T.H. Solomon and J.P. Gollub, Phys. Rev. Lett. 64, 2382-2385 (1990). Click here for reprint (minus the color liquid crystal image).

• Complex Particle Trajectories and Transport in Stationary and Periodic Convective Flows, T.H. Solomon and J.P. Gollub, Physica Scripta 40, 430-435 (1989).

• Chaotic Particle Transport in Time-Dependent Rayleigh-Bénard Convection, T.H. Solomon and J.P. Gollub, Phys. Rev. A 38, 6280-6286 (1988). Click here for reprint.

• Passive Transport in Steady Rayleigh-Bénard Convection, T.H. Solomon and J.P. Gollub, Phys. Fluids 31, 1372-1379 (1988).

• Relativistic One-Dimensional Binding and Two-Dimensional Motion, T.H. Solomon and S. Fallieros, J. Franklin Inst. 320, 323-344 (1985).