Home

 

Rayleigh-Taylor-Boffetta Screen-Shot-2014-08-06-at-14.28.47 droppedImage

 

The TWT gorup is specialized in direct numerical simulations (DNS) of turbulent flows and non-linear wave systems. Both the Eulerian (field) properties of such systems as well as their Lagrangian (particle transport) ones are studied.
Some of the main topics investigated are
– two-dimensional and three-dimensional Navier-Stokes turbulence
– the transport of particles and fields (both active and passive) by fluid flow, including inertial particles, temperature (thermal convection) and polymers.
– non-linear waves in oceanography and optics
– interaction of behaviour and hydrodynamics in the motion of aquatic microorganisms (in particular, phytoplankton)

The TWT group  is part of the national INFN “iniziativa specifica” FieldTurb, focusing on the problem of “Particles and Fields” transported by –and reacting with– turbulent flows and complex multi-component/multi-phase fluids.

 

GROUP MEMBERS

Faculty

Guido Boffetta

Miguel Onorato

Filippo De Lillo

Stefano Musacchio

PhD students

Lorenzo Pistone

Leonardo Puggioni

Francesco Toselli

PostDoc – PostGrad collaborators

Matteo Borgnino

Francesco De Vita

Marta Magnani

 

PAST MEMBERS

Alessandro Sozza