Rare events play a crucial role in many physics, chemistry, and biology phenomena, when
they change the structure of the system, for instance in the case of multistability, or when …

Intermittent turbulent-laminar patterns characterize the transition to turbulence in pipe, plane
Couette, and plane channel flows. The time evolution of turbulent-laminar bands in plane …

Transitional localized turbulence in shear flows is known to either decay to an absorbing
laminar state or to proliferate via splitting. The average passage times from one state to the …

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 …

In many geophysical and astrophysical flows, suppression of fluctuations along one
direction of the flow drives a quasi-two-dimensional upscale flux of kinetic energy, leading to …

This paper presents a numerical and theoretical study of multistability in two stochastic
models of transitional wall flows. An algorithm dedicated to the computation of rare events is …

Turbulent flows in a thin layer can develop an inverse energy cascade leading to spectral
condensation of energy when the layer height is smaller than a certain threshold. These …

Turbulence locally created in laminar pipe flows shows sudden decay or splitting after a
stochastic waiting time. In laboratory experiments, the mean waiting time was observed to …

In its classical version, the theory of large deviations makes quantitative statements about
the probability of outliers when estimating time averages, if time series data are identically …

In pipe flow, turbulence locally created by a perturbation to laminar state shows sudden
decay or splitting after a stochastic waiting time. A conjecture has been made that this …