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Superfluids

• Gregory P. Bewley, K. R. Sreenivasan, and Daniel P. Lathrop, Particles for tracing turbulent liquid helium, Experiments in Fluids. Accepted; currently in press.
• Gregory P. Bewley, Daniel P. Lathrop, and Katepalli R. Sreenivasan, Superfluid Helium: Visualization of Quantized Vortices, Nature 441 588 (2006).

Magnetoturbulence and dynamos

• Douglas H. Kelley, Santiago Andrés Triana, Daniel S. Zimmerman, Andreas Tilgner, and Daniel P. Lathrop. Inertial waves driven by differential rotation in a planetary geometry, Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics 101 5/6: 469-487 (2007).
• Douglas H. Kelley, Santiago Andrés Triana, Daniel S. Zimmerman, Barbara Brawn, Daniel P. Lathrop, and Donald H. Martin. Driven inertial waves in spherical Couette flow, Chaos 16, 041105 (2006).
• Woodrow L. Shew and Daniel P. Lathrop, Liquid sodium model of geophysical core convection, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors 153 (2005)
• Barbara E. Brawn, Kaveri Joshi, Daniel P. Lathrop, Nicolás Mujica, and Daniel R. Sisan, Visualizing the invisible: Ultrasound velocimetry in liquid sodium, Chaos 15, 041104 (2005)
• Stephan Fauve and Daniel P. Lathrop, "Laboratory Experiments on Liquid Metal Dynamos and Liquid Metal MHD Turbulence," Ch. 16 in ASTROPHYSICAL AND GEOPHYSICAL FLUID DYNAMICS AND DYNAMOS, Ed. by A.M. Soward, C.A. Jones, D.W. Hughes and N.O. Weiss, Taylor and Francis, Pubs. (2004).
• D. R. Sisan, Nicolás Mujica, W. Andrew Tillotson, Yi-Min Huang, William Dorland, Adil B. Hassam, Thomas M. Antonsen, and Daniel P. Lathrop, Experimental Observation and Characterization of the Magnetorotational Instability, Phys. Rev. Lett. 93 (2004)
• D.R.Sisan, W.L.Shew, and D.P.Lathrop, Lorentz Force Effects in Magnetoturbulence, Phys. Earth Plan. Int. 135 137-159 (2003)
• D. P. Lathrop, W. L. Shew, and D. R. Sisan "Laboratory Experiments on the Transition to MHD Dynamos," Plasma Phys. Cont. Fusion 43, 1 (2003)
• W. L. Shew, D. R. Sisan, and D. P. Lathrop, Mechanically Forced and Thermally Driven Flows in Liquid Sodium, Magnetohydrodynamics 38 1-2 (2002), pp. 121-127.
• D. Sweet, E. Ott, J. M. Finn, T. M. Antonsen and D. P. Lathrop, "Blowout Bifurcations and the Onset of Magnetic Activity in Turbulent Dynamos, Phys. Rev. E 63 (2001)
• D. Sweet, E. Ott, J. M. Finn, T. M. Antonsen and D. P. Lathrop, Blowout Bifurcations and the Onset of Dynamo Action, Phys. of Plasmas 8 (2001)
• N. L. Peffley, A. B. Cawthorne, and D. P. Lathrop, Toward a Self-generating Magnetic Dynamo, Phys. Rev. E 61 5287 (2000)
• N. L. Peffley, A. B. Cawthorne, A. G. Goumelvski, and D. P. Lathrop, Characterization of Experimental Dynamos, Geophys. J. Int. 142 52 (2000)
• A. B. Hassam, J. F. Drake, D.Goel, and D. P. Lathrop, Liquid Metal Flow Encasing a Magnetic Cavity, Phys. of Plasma Lett. 7 1081 (2000)

Turbulence

• Gregory P. Bewley, Daniel P. Lathrop, Leo R. M. Maas, and K. R. Sreenivasan, “Inertial waves in rotating grid turbulence” Phys. Fluids 19 071701 (2007)
• Thomas H. van den Berg, Dennis P. M. van Gils, Daniel P. Lathrop, and Detlef Lohse, Bubbly turbulent drag reduction is a boundary layer effect, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98 8:084501 (2007).
• Daniel P. Lathrop, Turbulence lost in transience, Nature 443 7107:36-37 (2006).
• Nicolás Mujica and Daniel P. Lathrop, Bistability and hysteresis in a highly turbulent swirling flow, Physica A - Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 356 1:162-166 (2005).
• Thomas H. van den Berg, Stefan Luther, Daniel P. Lathrop, and Detlef Lohse, Drag Reduction in Bubbly Taylor-Couette Turbulence, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94 044501 (2005)
• A. Kumar and S. Banerjee and Daniel P. Lathrop, Dynamics of a piecewise smooth map with singularity, Physics Letters A 337 1-2:87-92 (2005).
• Daniel D. Lanterman, Daniel P. Lathrop, Benjamin W. Zeff, Ryan McAllister, Rajarshi Roy, and Eric Kostelich, Characterizing intense rotation and dissipation in turbulent flows, Chaos 14, S8 (2004)
• Thomas H. van den Berg, Charles R. Doering, Detlef Lohse, and Daniel P. Lathrop, Smooth and rough boundaries in turbulent Taylor-Couette flow, Phys. Rev. E 421 036307 (2003)
• Daniel P. Lathrop, Turbulent intermittency and Euler similarity solutions, arXiv:cond-mat/0311487 (2003)
• Benjamin W. Zeff, Daniel D. Lanterman, Ryan McAllistor, Rajarshi Roy, Eric J. Kostelich, and D.P.Lathrop, Measuring intense rotation and dissipation in turbulent flows, Nature 421 146 (2003)
• E. J. Boettcher, J. Fineberg, and D. P. Lathrop, Turbulence and wave breaking effects on air-water gas exchange, Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2030 (2000)
• A. Junega, D. P. Lathrop, K. R. Sreenivasan, and G. Stolovitsky, Synthetic Turbulence, Phys. Rev. E 49 5179 (1994)
• J. Fineberg, D. P. Lathrop, and H. L. Swinney, Asymptotic scaling in turbulent Couette-Taylor flow, in Turbulence in Spatially Extended Systems, ed. by R. Benzi, C. Basdevant, and S. Ciliberto, Nova Science Publishers, (1993).
• D. P. Lathrop, J. Fineberg, and H. L. Swinney, Transition to Shear Driven Turbulence in Couette-Taylor Flow, Phys. Rev. A 46 6390 (1992)
• D. P. Lathrop, J. Fineberg, and H. L. Swinney, Turbulent flow between concentric rotating cylinders at large Reynolds number, Phys. Rev. Let. 68 1515-1518 (1992)

Strongly nonlinear surface waves

• Nicolás Mujica and Daniel P. Lathrop, Hysteretic gravity-wave bifurcation in a highly turbulent swirling flow, J. Fluid. Mech. 551 49-62 (2006).
• B. W. Zeff, B. Kleber, J. Feinberg, and D. P. Lathrop, The Dynamics of Finite Time Singularities: Curvature Collapse and Jet Erruption on a Fluid Surface, Nature 403 401 (2000)
  Accompanying review News and Views: Jets from a singular surface, by M. P. Brenner, Nature 403 377 (2000)
• B. W. Zeff, J. Feinberg, and D. P. Lathrop, "Formation of a Self-focusing Singularity on a Fluid Surface," Phys. Fluids A: Gallery of Motion 11, S8 (1999)
• C. L. Goodridge, H. G. E. Hentschel, and D. P. Lathrop, Breaking Faraday Waves: Critical Slowing of Droplet Ejection Rates, Phys. Rev. Lett. 82 3062 (1999)
• J. E. Hogrefe, N. L. Peffley, C. L. Goodridge, W. T. Shi, H. G. Hentschel, and D. P. Lathrop, Power-law Singularities in Gravity-capillary Waves, Physica D 123 183 (1998)
• W. Tao Shi, C. L. Goodridge, and D. P. Lathrop, Breaking Waves: Bifurcations Leading to Singular Wave State, Phys. Rev. E 56 4157 (1997)
• C. L. Goodridge, H. G. E. Hentschel, and D. P. Lathrop, Viscous Effects in Droplet Ejecting Capillary Waves, Phys. Rev. E 56 472 (1997)
• C. L. Goodridge, W. Tao Shi, and D. P. Lathrop, Threshold Dynamics of Singular Gravity-capillary Waves, Phys. Rev. E 49 5179 (1996)

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