When discussing research in physics and in science more generally, it is common to ascribe
equal importance to the three components of the scientific trinity: theoretical, experimental …

The theoretical study of the self-organization of two-dimensional and geophysical turbulent
flows is addressed based on statistical mechanics methods. This review is a self-contained …

We develop the kinetic theory of collisionless relaxation for systems with long-range
interactions in relation to the statistical theory of Lynden-Bell. We treat the multi-level case …

The transitions between two states of a bistable system are investigated experimentally and
analyzed in the framework of rare-event statistics. Considering a disk pendulum swept by a …

We consider three-dimensional turbulence from which vortex stretching is removed. Using
direct numerical simulations, we show that in this system a dual cascade is observed …

We consider three-dimensional turbulence from which vortex stretching is removed. The
resulting system conserves enstrophy, but does not conserve kinetic energy. Using spectral …

We introduce a novel way to extract information from turbulent datasets by applying an Auto
Regressive Moving Average (ARMA) statistical analysis. Such analysis goes well beyond …

A simplified thermodynamic approach of the incompressible 2D Euler equation is
considered based on the conservation of energy, circulation and microscopic enstrophy …

In the present paper, recent experimental results on large-scale coherent steady states
observed in experimental von Kármán flows are revisited from a statistical mechanics …

We investigate two-dimensional (2-D) axisymmetric flow in toroidal geometry, with a focus
on a transition between 2-D three-component flow and 2-D two-component flow. This latter …