Peer-reviewed Publications

• Reviews
• Defects in Systems far from Equilibrium
• Defect-mediated Turbulence
• Phenomenological Properties of Systems far from Equilibrium
• Modeling of Systems far from Equilibrium
• Nonlinear Optics
• Coherent Structures
• Modeling of Biological Phenomena

In the list below, if a manuscript is published online, its title is linked to the publisher's site.

Reviews

1. A. C. Newell, T. Passot and J. Lega, Order parameter equations for patterns, Ann. Rev. Fluid Mech. 25, 399-453 (1993).
2. Joceline Lega, Traveling hole solutions of the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation: a review, Physica D 152-153, 269-287 (2001).
3. J. Lega and T. Passot, Hydrodynamics of bacterial colonies, Nonlinearity 20, C1-C16 (2007). (Cover illustration).

Defects in Systems far from Equilibrium

4. P. Coullet, C. Elphick, L. Gil, and J. Lega, Topological defects of wave patterns, Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 884-887 (1987).
5. J. Lega, Forme spirale de la dislocation des ondes stationnaires, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, 309 II, 1401 (1989).
6. S. Ciliberto, P. Coullet, J. Lega, E. Pampaloni and C. Perez-Garcia, Defects in roll-hexagon competition, Phys. Rev. Lett. 65, 2370-2373 (1990).

Defect-mediated Turbulence

7. P. Coullet and J. Lega, Defect-mediated turbulence in wave patterns, Europhys. Lett. 7, 511-516 (1988).
8. P. Coullet, L. Gil, and J. Lega, Une forme de turbulence associée aux défauts topologiques, Bulletin de la Société Française de Physique, 67, 12 (1988); and Mathematical Modeling and Numerical Analysis 23, 385-394 (1989).
9. P. Coullet, L. Gil, and J. Lega, Defect-mediated turbulence, Phys. Rev. Lett. 62, 1619-1622 (1989).
10. P. Coullet, L. Gil, and J. Lega, A form of turbulence associated with defects, Physica 37 D, 91-103 (1989).
11. L. Gil, J. Lega and J.L. Meunier, Statistical properties of defect-mediated turbulence, Phys. Rev. A 41, 1138-1141 (1990).
12. J. Lega, Defect-mediated turbulence, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 89, 419-424 (1991).

Phenomenological Properties of Systems far from Equilibrium

13. P. Coullet, J. Lega, B. Houchmanzadeh and J. Lajzerowicz, Breaking chirality in nonequilibrium systems, Phys. Rev. Lett. 65, 1352-1355 (1990).
14. P. Coullet, J. Lega and Y. Pomeau, Dynamics of Bloch walls in a rotating magnetic field: a model, Europhys. Lett. 15, 221-226 (1991).
15. J. Lega, Secondary Hopf bifurcation of a one-dimensional periodic pattern, Eur. J. Mech. B/Fluids 10, #2 - Suppl., 145 (1991).
16. M.R.E. Proctor and J. Lega, Secondary bifurcations and symmetry breaking as a route towards spatiotemporal disorder, Int. J. Bifurcation and Chaos 5, 841 (1995).
17. J. Lega and T. Passot, Inverse cascade and energy transfer in forced low-Reynolds number two-dimensional turbulence, Fluid Dynamics Research 34, 289-297 (2004).

Modeling of Systems far from Equilibrium

18. F. Daviaud, J. Lega, P. Bergé, P. Coullet and M. Dubois, Spatio-temporal intermittency in a 1-d convective pattern: theoretical model and experiments, Physica D 55, 287-308 (1992).
19. J. Lega, S. Jucquois, B. Janiaud and V. Croquette, Localized phase jumps in wave trains, Phys. Rev. A 45, 5596-5604 (1992).
20. J. Lega and J.M. Vince, Temporal forcing of traveling wave patterns, J. Phys. I France 6, 1417-1434 (1996).

Nonlinear Optics

21. J.V. Moloney, P.K. Jakobsen, J. Lega, S.G. Wenden and A.C. Newell, Space-time complexity in nonlinear optics, Physica D 68, 127-134 (1993).
22. P.K. Jakobsen, J. Lega, Q. Feng, M. Staley, J.V. Moloney, and A.C. Newell, Nonlinear transverse modes of large-aspect-ratio homogeneously broadened lasers: I. Analysis and numerical simulation, Phys. Rev. A 49, 4189-4200 (1994).
23. J. Lega, P.K. Jakobsen, J.V. Moloney, and A.C. Newell, Nonlinear transverse modes of large-aspect-ratio homogeneously broadened lasers: II. Pattern analysis near and beyond threshold, Phys. Rev. A 49, 4201-4212 (1994).
24. J. Lega, J.V. Moloney, and A.C. Newell, Swift-Hohenberg equation for lasers, Phys. Rev. Lett. 73, 2978-2981 (1994).
25. J. B. Geddes, J. Lega, J.V. Moloney, R.A. Indik, E.M. Wright and W.J. Firth, Pattern selection in passive and active nonlinear optical systems, Chaos, Solitons and Fractals 4, 1261-1274 (1994).
26. G. K. Harkness, J.C. Lega and G.L. Oppo, Correlation functions in the presence of optical vortices, Chaos, Solitons and Fractals 4, 1519-1533 (1994).
27. J. Lega, J.V. Moloney, and A.C. Newell, Universal description of laser dynamics near threshold, Physica D 83, 478-498 (1995).
28. G.K. Harkness, J. Lega, and G.L. Oppo, Measuring disorder with correlation functions of averaged patterns, Physica D 96, 26-29 (1996).
29. D. Hochheiser, J.V. Moloney and J. Lega, Controlling optical turbulence, Phys. Rev. A 55, 4011-4014 (1997).
30. O. G. Calderón, V. M. Pérez-García, J. Lega, and J. M. Guerra, Loss-induced transverse effects in lasers, Opt. Comm. 143, 315-321 (1997).

Coherent Structures

31. J. Lega and S. Fauve, Traveling hole solutions to the complex Ginzburg-Landau equation as perturbations of Nonlinear Schrödinger dark solitons, Physica 102 D, 234-252 (1997).
32. S. Bottin and J. Lega, Pulses of tunable size near a subcritical bifurcation, Eur. Phys. J. B 5, 299-308 (1998).
33. J. Lega and A. Goriely, Pulses, fronts and oscillations of an elastic rod, Physica D 132, 374-392 (1999).
34. S. Lafortune and J. Lega, Instability of local deformations of an elastic rod, Physica D 182, 103-124 (2003).
35. S. Lafortune and J. Lega, Spectral stability of local deformations of an elastic rod: Hamiltonian formalism, SIAM J. Math. Anal. 36, 1726-1741 (2005).

Modeling of Biological Phenomena

36. Y. Pomeau and J. Lega, Structures macroscopiques en spirales comme configurations d'équilibre d'un ensemble de molécules chirales, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris II 311, 1135-1143 (1990).
37. N. Mendelson and J. Lega, A complex pattern of traveling stripes is produced by swimming cells of Bacillus subtilis, Journal of Bacteriology 180, 3285-3294 (1998).
38. J. Lega and N. Mendelson, A control-parameter dependent Swift-Hohenberg equation as a model for bioconvection patterns, Phys. Rev. E 59, 6267-6274 (1999).
39. T.A. Christensen, G. D'Alessandro, J. Lega and J.G. Hildebrand, Morphometric modeling of olfactory circuits in the insect antennal lobe: I. Simulations of spiking local interneurons, Biosystems 61, 143-153 (2001).
40. B.R. Schoene, J. Lega, K.W. Flessa, D.H. Goodwin and D.L. Dettman, Reconstructing daily temperatures from growth rates of the intertidal bivalve mollusk Chione cortezi (northern Gulf of California, Mexico), Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 184, 131-146 (2002).
41. J. Lega and T. Passot, Hydrodynamics of bacterial colonies: a model, Phys. Rev. E 67, 031906 1-18 (2003).
42. J. Lega and T. Passot, Hydrodynamics of bacterial colonies: phase diagrams, Chaos 14, 562-570 (2004).

Articles in books

1. L. Gil and J. Lega, Defects in waves, in Propagation in Systems far from Equilibrium, Eds. J.E. Wesfreid, H. Brand, P. Manneville, G. Albinet, and N. Boccara, Springer-Verlag (1988), pp.164-175.
2. P. Coullet, L. Gil, and J. Lega, Transitions in systems far from equilibrium: a Ginzburg-Landau approach, in Chaos and Complexity, Eds. M. Buiatti, S. Ciliberto, R. Livi and S. Ruffo, World Publishing (1988), p.99.
3. J. Lega, Defect-mediated turbulence: an example in wave patterns, Le Journal de Physique Colloque, 50, C3-193-198 (1989).
4. J. Lega, Defect-mediated turbulence in spatio-temporal patterns, in New Trends in Nonlinear Dynamics and Pattern Forming Phenomena: the Geometry of Non\-equilibrium, P. Coullet and P.Huerre Eds., Plenum (1990), pp. 137-144.
5. J. Lega, Defects and defect-mediated turbulence, in Patterns, Defects and Material Instabilities, D. Walgraef and N. M. Ghoniem Eds., Kluwer Academic Publisher (1990), pp.7-24.
6. J. Lega, Defects in macroscopic structures: Ginzburg-Landau approach, in Defects, Singularities and Patterns in Nematic Liquid Crystals: Mathematical and Physical Aspects, J. M. Coron, J. M. Ghidaglia and F. Helein Eds., Kluwer (1990).
7. B. Janiaud, S. Jucquois, J. Lega and V. Croquette, Experimental evidence of Bekki-Nozaki holes, in Pattern Formation in Complex Dissipative Systems, Fluid Patterns, Liquid Crystals, Chemical Reactions, S. Kai Ed., World Scientific (1992), pp. 538-550.
8. J. Lega, Résultats récents sur le contrôle de la turbulence optique, in Des Phénomènes Critiques au Chaos, Edited by P. Manneville, DRECAM/SPEC CEA (1999), pp. 201-210.
9. Two articles in the Encyclopedia of Nonlinear Science, on
   • Equilibrium
   • Fredholm Theorem
10. J. Lega, Phase Diffusion and Weak Turbulence, in Dynamics and Bifurcation of Patterns in Dissipative Systems, G. Dangelmayr and I. Oprea Eds., World Scientific Series on Nonlinear Science, Vol. 12, World Scientific (2004), pp. 183-157.