Publications

Names in bold are from current and former members of the Turbulent Dynamics Research Group

2025

Parthasarathy, A. & Saxton-Fox, T. (2025). Turbulent boundary layers under spatially and temporally varying pressure gradients. In Journal of Fluid Mechanics. (Link)

Borra, A., Flynn, Z., Goza, A., & Saxton-Fox, T. (2025). Intrinsic phase-based proper orthogonal decomposition (IPhaB POD): a method for physically interpretable modes in near-periodic systems. In Journal of Fluid Mechanics. (Link)

Agrawal, A. & Saxton-Fox, T. (2025). Statistics of a turbulent boundary layer under a favorable-adverse pressure gradient. In AIAA SciTech 2025. (Link) 

2024

Borra, A. & Saxton-Fox, T. (2024). Evolution of a turbulent boundary layer over a series of pressure gradients. In AIAA Aviation 2024 Forum. (Link)

Manthripragada, K. & Saxton-Fox, T. (2024). Relating skewness and fourier harmonics in a low Reynolds number wakef low. In AIAA Aviation 2024 Forum. (Link)

Torres De Jesus, E., Waghmare, P., & Saxton-Fox, T. (2024). Spectral Analysis of a Cylinder Wake Interacting with Coherent Structures in a Turbulent Boundary Layer. In AIAA SCITECH 2024 Forum (p. 0075). (Link)

2023

Parthasarathy, A. & Saxton-Fox, T. (2023). A family of adverse pressure gradient turbulent boundary layers with upstream favourable pressure gradients. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 966, A11. (Link)

Parthasarathy, A., Nigam, R., Gupta, A., Kopperstad, T. E., Pirosmanishvili, A., & Saxton-Fox, T. A. (2023, June). Supporting Graduate Women in Engineering: The Approach and Findings of a Year-Long Program at UIUC. In 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition. (Link)

Jamal, Z., Borra, A., Randeo, A., Parthasarathy, A., Hong, S., Cho, G., & Saxton-Fox, T. (2023) Planar Particle Image Velocimetry of Unsteady Adverse Pressure Gradients Imposed on a Turbulent Flow. 15th International Symposium on Particle Image Velocimetry – ISPIV 2023. (Link)

Namdeo, K., Bhattacharyya, A., Zheng, W., James, K., & Saxton-Fox, T. (2023). Measurement of Aerodynamic Loads on a Passive Morphing Wing Under Unsteady Motion. In AIAA AVIATION 2023 Forum (p. 4244).(Link)

Towne, A., Dawson, S. T., Brès, G. A., Lozano-Durán, A., Saxton-Fox, T., Parthasarathy, A., Jones, A. R., Biler, H., Yeh, C. A., Patel, H. D., & Taira, K. (2023). A database for reduced-complexity modeling of fluid flows. AIAA Journal, 1-26.(Link)

Kopperstad, T.E. , Borra, A., Beusse, A., Kim, C., Torres De Jesus, E., Saxton-Fox, T., & Ansell, P. J. (2023). Design of Propellers with Passive Mitigation of Coherent Tip Vortex Roll-up. In AIAA SCITECH 2023 Forum (p. 2614). (Link)

Diaz, M., Yu, D., Ansell, P. J., & Saxton-Fox, T. (2023). Acoustics of a Rotary Wing with Passive Reduced Tip Vortex in a Static Configuration. In AIAA SCITECH 2023 Forum (p. 0620). (Link)

Parthasarathy, A. S., & Saxton-Fox, T. (2023). Spectral analysis of a turbulent boundary layer encountering steady and unsteady complex pressure gradients. In AIAA SCITECH 2023 Forum (p. 0674). (Link)

2022

Parthasarathy, A., Saxton-Fox., T. (2022) Statistics of unsteady turbulent boundary layers. Turbulent and Shear Flow Phenomena. 

Parthasarathy, A., Saxton-Fox, T. (2022) A novel experimental facility to impose unsteady pressure gradients on turbulent boundary layers. Experiments in Fluids. (Link)

Borra, A., Saxton-Fox, T. (2022) Proper orthogonal decomposition for a turbulent boundary layer with aero-optic distortion. AIAA Journal. (link)

Saxton-Fox, T., Lozano-Duran, A., McKeon, B. (2022) Amplitude and wall-normal distance variation of small scales in turbulent boundary layers. Physical Review Fluids. (Link)

2021

Shrivastava, S., Saxton-Fox, T. (2021) Correlation between large-scale streamwise velocity features and the height of coherent vortices in a turbulent boundary layer. Fluids MDPI. (Link)

Borra, A., Saxton-Fox, T. (2021) Conditional POD and space-time POD for a turbulent boundary layer with passive scalar transport and aero-optic distortion. AIAA Aviation. (Link)

Parthasarathy, A., Suri, S., Saxton-Fox, T. (2020+1). Modal analysis in curvilinear coordinates. International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics.

Collazo Garcia, A., Saxton-Fox, T., Ansell, P (2021). Modal Analysis of the Transonic Shock Process over a Griffith-Type, Laminar-Flow Airfoil. AIAA SciTech. (Link)

2020

Laskari, A., Saxton-Fox, T., & McKeon, B.J. (2020). Spatial organisation of velocity structures for large passive scalar gradients. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 885. https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2019.977

2019

Saxton-Fox, T., McKeon, B. J., & Gordeyev, S. (2019). Effect of Coherent Structures on Aero-Optic Distortion in a Turbulent Boundary Layer. AIAA Journal, 1-12. (Link)

Saxton-Fox, T., Ding, L., Smits, A., & Hultmark, M. (2019). Coherent Structure Deformation in a Turbulent Pipe Flow with a Spatially-Developing Pressure Gradient. In: International Symposium on Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena, July 30 - August 2, 2019, Southampton, UK.

Laskari, A., Saxton-Fox, T., & McKeon, B. (2019). Organisation of velocity structures associated with large passive scalar gradients in a turbulent boundary layer.. Paper presented at 11th International Symposium on Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena, TSFP 2019, Southampton, United Kingdom. 

Ding, L., Saxton-Fox, T., Hultmark, M., & Smits, A. (2019). Effects of pressure gradients and streamline curvature on the statistics of a turbulent pipe flow. Paper presented at 11th International Symposium on Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena, TSFP 2019, Southampton, United Kingdom. 

2018

Saxton-Fox, T. (2018). Coherent Structures, their Interactions, and their Effects on Passive Scalar Transport and Aero-Optic Distortion in a Turbulent Boundary Layer. Dissertation (Ph.D.), California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/Z9W0943P (Link )

Dawson, S. T. M., McKeon, B. J., & Saxton-Fox, T. A. (2018). Modeling passive scalar dynamics in wall-bounded turbulence using resolvent analysis. In 2018 Fluid Dynamics Conference [AIAA 2018-4042] (2018 Fluid Dynamics Conference). American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc, AIAA. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2018-4042 

2017

Saxton-Fox, T., & Mckeon, B. J. (2017). Coherent Structures, Uniform Momentum Zones and the Streamwise Energy Spectrum in Wall-Bounded Turbulent Flows. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 826. doi:10.1017/jfm.2017.493 (Link)

Saxton-Fox, T. and McKeon, B.J. (2017).Modeling momentum and scalar transport in a wall-bounded turbulent flow. In: 10th International Symposium on Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena (TSFP10), July 6-9, 2017, Chicago, IL. 

2016

Saxton-Fox, T., & McKeon, B. J. (2016). Scale interactions and 3D critical layers in wall-bounded turbulent flows. In: 24th International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, August 21-26, 2016, Montreal, Canada. 

Rosenberg, K. and Saxton-Fox, T. and Lozano-Duran, A. and Towne, A. and McKeon, B. J. (2016) Toward low order models of wall turbulence using resolvent analysis. In: Studying Turbulence Using Numerical Simulation Databases - XVI : Proceedings of the 2016 Summer Program : Dedicated to the memory of John Lumley (1930-2015). Center for Turbulence Research , Stanford, CA, pp. 305-314. 

2015

Gordeyev, S. and Smith, A.E. and Saxton-Fox, T., and McKeon, B.J. (2015) Studies of the large-scale structure in adiabatic and moderately-wall-heated subsonic boundary layers. In: Ninth Symposium on Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena (TSFP-9), June 30 - July 3, 2015, Melbourne, Australia. 

Other resources

• Beauty in Chaos

      https://caltechletters.org/science/beauty-in-chaos 

• Turbulence, the oldest unsolved problem in physics 

      https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/10/turbulence-the-oldest-unsolved-problem-in-physics/