Publications

Journal Articles

2026

• Tobias Bätge, Johannes Zierenberg, Michael Wilczek
  Effects of correlated collisions and intermittency on the growth of lucky droplets
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 123(9), e2502553123 (2026)
  DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2502553123

2025

• Venecia Chávez-Medina, Juan Pedro Mellado, Michael Wilczek
  Statistical analysis of vertical velocity and buoyancy in convective boundary layers
  Journal of Fluid Mechanics 1011, A40 (2025)
  DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2025.286
• Lukas Bentkamp, Michael Wilczek
  Temporal large-scale intermittency and its impact on the statistics of turbulence
  Journal of Fluid Mechanics 1004, A12 (2025)
  DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2024.700

2024

• Wolf Knöller, Gholamhossein Bagheri, Philipp von Olshausen, Michael Wilczek
  Analysis of the measurement uncertainty for a 3D wind lidar
  Atmospheric Measurement Techniques 17(23), 6913-6931 (2024)
  DOI: 10.5194/amt-17-6913-2024
• Maurizio Carbone, Michael Wilczek
  Asymptotic predictions on the velocity gradient statistics in low-Reynolds-number random flows : onset of skewness, intermittency and alignments
  Journal of Fluid Mechanics 986, A25 (2024)
  DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2024.165
• Marcel Schröder, Tobias Bätge, Eberhard Bodenschatz, Michael Wilczek, Gholamhossein Bagheri
  Estimating the turbulent kinetic energy dissipation rate from one-dimensional velocity measurements in time
  Atmospheric Measurement Techniques 17(2), 627-657 (2024)
  DOI: 10.5194/amt-17-627-2024
• Perry L. Johnson, Michael Wilczek
  Multiscale Velocity Gradients in Turbulence
  Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics 56, 463-490 (2024)
  DOI: 10.1146/annurev-fluid-121021-031431
• Maurizio Carbone, V. J. Peterhans, A. S. Ecker, Michael Wilczek
  Tailor-Designed Models for the Turbulent Velocity Gradient through Normalizing Flow
  Physical Review Letters 133, 184001 (2024)
  DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.184001
• Dhawal Buaria, John M. Lawson, Michael Wilczek
  Twisting vortex lines regularize Navier-Stokes turbulence
  Science Advances 10(37), eado1969 (2024)
  DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.ado1969

2023

• Naseem Ali, Juan Pedro Mellado, Michael Wilczek
  A Wavenumber–Frequency Spectrum Model for Sheared Convective Atmospheric Boundary Layer Flows
  Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 80(3), 763-776 (2023)
  DOI: 10.1175/JAS-D-22-0079.1
• Johannes Zierenberg, F. Paul Spitzner, Jonas Dehning, Viola Priesemann, Martin Weigel, Michael Wilczek
  How contact patterns destabilize and modulate epidemic outbreaks
  New Journal of Physics 25(5), 053033 (2023)
  DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/acd1a7
• Tobias Bätge, Itzhak Fouxon, Michael Wilczek
  Quantitative Prediction of Sling Events in Turbulence at High Reynolds Numbers
  Physical Review Letters 131(5), 054001 (2023)
  DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.054001

2022

• Cristian Lalescu, Bérenger Bramas, Markus Rampp, Michael Wilczek
  An efficient particle tracking algorithm for large-scale parallel pseudo-spectral simulations of turbulence
  Computer Physics Communications 278, 108406 (2022)
  DOI: 10.1016/j.cpc.2022.108406
• José-Agustín Arguedas-Leiva, Jonasz Słomka, Cristian Lalescu, Roman Stocker, Michael Wilczek
  Elongation enhances encounter rates between phytoplankton in turbulence
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 119(32), e2203191119 (2022)
  DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2203191119
• Philipp Fleig, Mirna Kramar, Michael Wilczek, Karen Alim
  Emergence of behaviour in a self-organized living matter network
  eLife, e62863 (2022)
  DOI: 10.7554/eLife.62863.sa0
• José-Agustín Arguedas-Leiva, Enda Carroll, Luca Biferale, Michael Wilczek, Miguel D. Bustamante
  Minimal phase-coupling model for intermittency in turbulent systems
  Physical Review Research 4, L032035 (2022)
  DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.4.L032035
• Kim L. Kreienkamp, Michael Wilczek
  Modeling probability density functions of velocity fluctuations in wind farms
  Wind Energy 25(6), 985-997 (2022)
  DOI: 10.1002/we.2707
• Maurizio Carbone, Michael Wilczek
  Only two Betchov homogeneity constraints exist for isotropic turbulence
  Journal of Fluid Mechanics 948, R2 (2022)
  DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2022.680
• Henning Reinken, Sabine H. L. Klapp, Michael Wilczek
  Optimal turbulent transport in microswimmer suspensions
  Physical Review Fluids 7, 084501 (2022)
  DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevFluids.7.084501
• Lukas Bentkamp, Theodore D. Drivas, Cristian Lalescu, Michael Wilczek
  The statistical geometry of material loops in turbulence
  Nature Communications 13, 2088 (2022)
  DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-29422-1

2021

• Martin James, Dominik A. Suchla, Jörn Dunkel, Michael Wilczek
  Emergence and melting of active vortex crystals
  Nature Communications 12, 5630 (2021)
  DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-25545-z
• Michael Sinhuber, Jan Friedrich, Rainer Grauer, Michael Wilczek
  Multi-level stochastic refinement for complex time series and fields : a data-driven approach
  New Journal of Physics 23, 063063 (2021)
  DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/abe60e
• Colin-Marius Koch, Michael Wilczek
  Role of Advective Inertia in Active Nematic Turbulence
  Physical Review Letters 127(26), 268005 (2021)
  DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.127.268005
• Nimish Pujara, José-Agustín Arguedas-Leiva, Cristian Lalescu, Bérenger Bramas, Michael Wilczek
  Shape- and scale-dependent coupling between spheroids and velocity gradients in turbulence
  Journal of Fluid Mechanics 922, R6 (2021)
  DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2021.543
• Tobias Bätge, Michael Wilczek
  Small-scale averaging coarse-grains passive scalar turbulence
  Physical Review Fluids 6, 064503 (2021)
  DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevFluids.6.064503
• Sebastian Contreras, Jonas Dehning, Matthias Loidolt, Johannes Zierenberg, F. Paul Spitzner, Jorge H. Urrea-Quintero, Sebastian B. Mohr, Michael Wilczek, Michael Wibral, Viola Priesemann
  The challenges of containing SARS-CoV-2 via test-trace-and-isolate
  Nature Communications 12, 378 (2021)
  DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-20699-8
• Cristian Lalescu, Michael Wilczek
  Transitions of turbulent superstructures in generalized Kolmogorov flow
  Physical Review Research 3(2), L022010 (2021)
  DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.3.L022010

2020

• Leonhard A. Leppin, Michael Wilczek
  Capturing Velocity Gradients and Particle Rotation Rates in Turbulence
  Physical Review Letters 125, 224501 (2020)
  DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.224501
• Jonas Dehning, Johannes Zierenberg, F. Paul Spitzner, Michael Wibral, Joao Pinheiro Neto, Michael Wilczek, Viola Priesemann
  Inferring change points in the spread of COVID-19 reveals the effectiveness of interventions
  Science 369(6500), eabb9789 (2020)
  DOI: 10.1126/science.abb9789
• José-Agustín Arguedas-Leiva, Michael Wilczek
  Microswimmers in an axisymmetric vortex flow
  New Journal of Physics 22, 053051 (2020)
  DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/ab776f
• Gerrit Green, Dimitar G. Vlaykov, Juan P. Mellado, Michael Wilczek
  Resolved energy budget of superstructures in Rayleigh-Bénard convection
  Journal of Fluid Mechanics 887, A21 (2020)
  DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2019.1008

2019

• Gregor Ibbeken, Gerrit Green, Michael Wilczek
  Large-Scale Pattern Formation in the Presence of Small-Scale Random Advection
  Physical Review Letters 123, 114501 (2019)
  DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.114501
• Katherine Fodor, Juan P. Mellado, Michael Wilczek
  On the role of large-scale updrafts and downdrafts in deviations from Monin-Obukhov similarity theory in free convection
  Boundary-Layer Meteorology 172(3), 371-396 (2019)
  DOI: 10.1007/s10546-019-00454-3
• Dimitar G. Vlaykov, Michael Wilczek
  On the small-scale structure of turbulence and its impact on the pressure field
  Journal of Fluid Mechanics 861, 422-446 (2019)
  DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2018.857
• Lukas Bentkamp, Cristian Lalescu, Michael Wilczek
  Persistent accelerations disentangle Lagrangian turbulence
  Nature Communications 10, 3550 (2019)
  DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-11060-9

2018

• Cristian Lalescu, Michael Wilczek
  Acceleration statistics of tracer particles in filtered turbulent fields
  Journal of Fluid Mechanics 847, R2 (2018)
  DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2018.381
• John M. Lawson, Eberhard Bodenschatz, Cristian Lalescu, Michael Wilczek
  Bias in particle tracking acceleration measurement
  Experiments in Fluids 59, 172 (2018)
  DOI: 10.1007/s00348-018-2622-0
• Rebekka E. Breier, Cristian Lalescu, Devin Waas, Michael Wilczek, Marco G. Mazza
  Emergence of phytoplankton patchiness at small scales in mild turbulence
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 115(48), 12112-12117 (2018)
  DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1808711115
• Cristian Lalescu, Michael Wilczek
  How tracer particles sample the complexity of turbulence
  New Journal of Physics 20, 013001 (2018)
  DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/aa8ecd
• Laura J. Lukassen, Richard J. A. M. Stevens, Charles Meneveau, Michael Wilczek
  Modeling space-time correlations of velocity fluctuations in wind farms
  Wind Energy 21(7), 474-487 (2018)
  DOI: 10.1002/we.2172
• Henrik Ronellenfitsch, Jörn Dunkel, Michael Wilczek
  Optimal noise-canceling networks
  Physical Review Letters 121, 208301 (2018)
  DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.208301
• Martin James, Wouter J. T. Bos, Michael Wilczek
  Turbulence and turbulent pattern formation in a minimal model for active fluids
  Physical Review Fluids 3, 061101(R) (2018)
  DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevFluids.3.061101
• Martin James, Michael Wilczek
  Vortex dynamics and Lagrangian statistics in a model for active turbulence
  The European Physical Journal E 41(2), 21 (2018)
  DOI: 10.1140/epje/i2018-11625-8

2017

• Theodore D. Drivas, Perry L. Johnson, Cristian Lalescu, Michael Wilczek
  Large-scale sweeping of small-scale eddies in turbulence : A filtering approach
  Physical Review Fluids 2(10), 104603 (2017)
  DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevFluids.2.104603

2016

• Michael Wilczek
  Non-Gaussianity and intermittency in an ensemble of Gaussian fields
  New Journal of Physics 18, 125009 (2016)
  DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/18/12/125009

2015

• Michael Wilczek, Richard J. A. M. Stevens, Charles Meneveau
  Height-dependence of spatio-temporal spectra of wall-bounded turbulence : LES results and model predictions
  Journal of Turbulence 16(10), 937-949 (2015)
  DOI: 10.1080/14685248.2015.1047497
• Klaus Petschel, Stephan Stellmach, Michael Wilczek, Johannes Lülff, Ulrich Hansen
  Kinetic energy transport in Rayleigh-Bénard convection
  Journal of Fluid Mechanics 773, 395-417 (2015)
  DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2015.216
• Michael Wilczek
  New insights into the fine-scale structure of turbulence
  Journal of Fluid Mechanics 784, 1-4 (2015)
  DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2015.536
• Michael Wilczek, Richard J. A. M. Stevens, Charles Meneveau
  Spatio-temporal spectra in the logarithmic layer of wall turbulence : Large-eddy simulations and simple models
  Journal of Fluid Mechanics 769, R1 (2015)
  DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2015.116
• Johannes Lülff, Michael Wilczek, Richard J. A. M. Stevens, Rudolf Friedrich, Detlef Lohse
  Turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection described by projected dynamics in phase space
  Journal of Fluid Mechanics 781, 276-297 (2015)
  DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2015.495

2014

• Michael Wilczek, Haitao Xu, Yasuhito Narita
  A note on Taylor's hypothesis under large-scale flow variation
  Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics 21(3), 645-649 (2014)
  DOI: 10.5194/npg-21-645-2014
• Richard J. A. M. Stevens, Michael Wilczek, Charles Meneveau
  Large-eddy simulation study of the logarithmic law for second- and higher-order moments in turbulent wall-bounded flow
  Journal of Fluid Mechanics 757, 888-907 (2014)
  DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2014.510
• Michael Wilczek, Charles Meneveau
  Pressure Hessian and viscous contributions to velocity gradient statistics based on Gaussian random fields
  Journal of Fluid Mechanics 756, 191-225 (2014)
  DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2014.367
• Marta Wacławczyk, Nicola Staffolani, Martin Oberlack, Andreas Rosteck, Michael Wilczek, Rudolf Friedrich
  Statistical symmetries of the Lundgren-Monin-Novikov hierarchy
  Physical Review E 90, 013022 (2014)
  DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.90.013022

2013

• Klaus Petschel, Stephan Stellmach, Michael Wilczek, Johannes Lülff, Ulrich Hansen
  Dissipation layers in Rayleigh-Bénard convection : A unifying view
  Physical Review Letters 110, 144502 (2013)
  DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.114502
• Yasuhito Narita, Karl-Heinz Glassmeier, Uwe Motschmann, Michael Wilczek
  Doppler shift and broadening in solar wind turbulence
  Earth, Planets and Space 65, e5-e8 (2013)
  DOI: 10.5047/eps.2012.12.002
• Michael Wilczek, Haitao Xu, Nicholas T. Ouellette, Rudolf Friedrich, Eberhard Bodenschatz
  Generation of Lagrangian intermittency in turbulence by a self-similar mechanism
  New Journal of Physics 15, 055015 (2013)
  DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/15/5/055015
• Vasil Bratanov, Frank Jenko, David R. Hatch, Michael Wilczek
  Nonuniversal power-law spectra in turbulent systems
  Physical Review Letters 111, 075001 (2013)
  DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.075001

2012

• Michael Wilczek, Benjamin Kadoch, Kai Schneider, Rudolf Friedrich, Marie Farge
  Conditional vorticity budget of coherent and incoherent flow contributions in fully developed homogeneous isotropic turbulence
  Physics of Fluids 24(3), 035108 (2012)
  DOI: 10.1063/1.3694807
• Rudolf Friedrich, Anton Daitche, Oliver Kamps, Johannes Lülff, Michel Vosskuhle, Michael Wilczek
  The Lundgren-Monin-Novikov hierarchy : Kinetic equations for turbulence
  Comptes Rendus Physique 13(9/10), 929-953 (2012)
  DOI: 10.1016/j.crhy.2012.09.009
• Rudolf Friedrich, Michel Voßkuhle, Oliver Kamps, Michael Wilczek
  Two-point vorticity statistics in the inverse cascade of two-dimensional turbulence
  Physics of Fluids 24(12), 125101 (2012)
  DOI: 10.1063/1.4767465
• Michael Wilczek, Yasuhito Narita
  Wave-number-frequency spectrum for turbulence from a random sweeping hypothesis with mean flow
  Physical Review E 86, 066308 (2012)
  DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.86.066308

2011

• Michael Wilczek, Anton Daitche, Rudolf Friedrich
  On the velocity distribution in homogeneous isotropic turbulence : correlations and deviations from Gaussianity
  Journal of Fluid Mechanics 676, 191-217 (2011)
  DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2011.39
• Klaus Petschel, Michael Wilczek, Martin Breuer, Rudolf Friedrich, Ulrich Hansen
  Statistical analysis of global wind dynamics in vigorous Rayleigh-Bénard convection
  Physical Review E 84, 026309 (2011)
  DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.84.026309
• Johannes Lülff, Michael Wilczek, Rudolf Friedrich
  Temperature statistics in turbulent Rayleigh–Bénard convection
  New Journal of Physics 13, 015002 (2011)
  DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/13/1/015002
• Michael Wilczek, Anton Daitche, Rudolf Friedrich
  Theory for the single-point velocity statistics of fully developed turbulence
  Europhysics Letters 93(3), 34003 (2011)
  DOI: 10.1209/0295-5075/93/34003

2009

• Michael Wilczek, Rudolf Friedrich
  Dynamical origins for non-Gaussian vorticity distributions in turbulent flows
  Physical Review E 80, 016316 (2009)
  DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.80.016316

2008

• Michael Wilczek, Oliver Kamps, Rudolf Friedrich
  Lagrangian investigation of two-dimensional decaying turbulence
  Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena 237(14-17), 2090-2094 (2008)
  DOI: 10.1016/j.physd.2008.01.013
• Michael Wilczek, Frank Jenko, Rudolf Friedrich
  Lagrangian particle statistics in turbulent flows from a simple vortex model
  Physical Review E 77, 056301 (2008)
  DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.77.056301

Proceedings

2017

• Michael Wilczek, Dimitar G. Vlaykov, Cristian Lalescu
  Emergence of non-Gaussianity in turbulence
  In: Ramis Örlü, Alessandro Talamelli, Martin Oberlack, Joachim Peinke (Eds.): Progress in Turbulence VII : Proceedings of the iTi Conference in Turbulence 2016, Springer Proceedings in Physics 196, p. 3-9, Springer, Cham (2017)
  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-57934-4_1
• Laura J. Lukassen, Michael Wilczek
  Lagrangian intermittency based on an ensemble of Gaussian velocity time series
  In: Ramis Örlü, Alessandro Talamelli, Martin Oberlack, Joachim Peinke (Eds.): Progress in Turbulence VII : Proceedings of the iTi Conference in Turbulence 2016, Springer Proceedings in Physics 196, p. 23-29, Springer, Cham (2017)
  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-57934-4_4

2014

• Michael Wilczek, Richard J. A. M. Stevens, Yasuhito Narita, Charles Meneveau
  A wavenumber-frequency spectral model for atmospheric boundary layers
  Journal of Physics: Conference Series 524, 012104 (2014)
  DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/524/1/012104
• Oliver Kamps, Michael Wilczek
  Statistical description of turbulent flows : a short review in memory of Rudolf Friedrich
  In: Alessandro Talamelli, Martin Oberlack, Joachim Peinke (Eds.): Progress in Turbulence V : Proceedings of the iTi Conference in Turbulence 2012, Springer Proceedings in Physics 149, p. 1-8, Springer, Cham (2014)
  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-01860-7_1

2012

• Oliver Kamps, Michael Wilczek, Rudolf Friedrich
  Lagrangian acceleration statistics in 2D and 3D turbulence
  In: Martin Oberlack, Joachim Peinke, Alessandro Talamelli, Luciano Castillo, Michael Hölling (Eds.): Progress in Turbulence and Wind Energy IV : Proceedings of the iTi Conference in Turbulence 2010, Springer Proceedings in Physics 141, p. 67-70, Springer, Berlin & Heidelberg (2012)
  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-28968-2_14
• Michael Wilczek, Rudolf Friedrich
  Two-point enstrophy statistics of fully developed turbulence
  In: Martin Oberlack, Joachim Peinke, Alessandro Talamelli, Luciano Castillo, Michael Hölling (Eds.): Progress in Turbulence and Wind Energy IV : Proceedings of the iTi Conference in Turbulence 2010, Springer Proceedings in Physics 141, p. 57-60, Springer, Berlin & Heidelberg (2012)
  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-28968-2_12

2011

• Johannes Lülff, Michael Wilczek, Rudolf Friedrich
  Investigation of temperature statistics in turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection using PDF methods
  Journal of Physics: Conference Series 318, 082008 (2011)
  DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/318/8/082008
• Oliver Kamps, Michael Wilczek
  Long time memory of Lagrangian acceleration statistics in 2D and 3D turbulence
  Journal of Physics: Conference Series 318, 052033 (2011)
  DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/318/5/052033
• Michael Wilczek, Benjamin Kadoch, Kai Schneider, Rudolf Friedrich, Marie Farge
  Wavelet analysis of the conditional vorticity budget in fully developed homogeneous isotropic turbulence
  Journal of Physics: Conference Series 318, 062024 (2011)
  DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/318/6/062024

2010

• Michael Wilczek, Rudolf Friedrich
  A Langevin equation for the turbulent vorticity
  In: Joachim Peinke, Martin Oberlack, Alessandro Talamelli (Eds.): Progress in Turbulence III : proceedings of the iTi Conference in Turbulence 2008, Springer Proceedings in Physics 131, p. 255-258, Springer, Berlin & Heidelberg (2010)
  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-02225-8_62
• Michel Vosskuhle, Oliver Kamps, Michael Wilczek, Rudolf Friedrich
  Statistical properties of velocity increments in two-dimensional turbulence
  In: Joachim Peinke, Martin Oberlack, Alessandro Talamelli (Eds.): Progress in Turbulence III : proceedings of the iTi Conference in Turbulence 2008, Springer Proceedings in Physics 131, p. 37-40, Springer, Berlin & Heidelberg (2010)
  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-02225-8_8
• Michael Wilczek, Anton Daitche, Rudolf Friedrich
  Vorticity statistics in fully developed turbulence
  In: Siegfried Wagner, Matthias Steinmetz, Arndt Bode, Markus M. Müller (Eds.): High Performance Computing in Science and Engineering, Garching/Munich 2009, p. 109-120, Springer, Berlin (2010)
  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-13872-0