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physics.flu-dyn2024★ 7 cited

Stabilization of the Rayleigh-Bénard system by injection of thermal inertial particles and bubbles

Saad Raza, Silvia C. Hirata, Enrico Calzavarini

The effects of a dispersed particulate phase on the onset of Rayleigh-Bénard convection in a fluid layer is studied theoretically by means of a two-fluid Eulerian modelization. The…

physics.flu-dyn2024★ 2 cited

Impact of ageostrophic dynamics on the predictability of Lagrangian trajectories in surface-ocean turbulence

Michael Maalouly, Guillaume Lapeyre, Stefano Berti

Turbulent flows at the surface of the ocean deviate from geostrophic equilibrium on scales smaller than about 10 km. These scales are associated with important vertical transport o…

physics.flu-dyn2023★ 8 cited

Particle dispersion and clustering in surface ocean turbulence with ageostrophic dynamics

Michael Maalouly, Guillaume Lapeyre, Bastien Cozian +2

Upper-ocean turbulent flows at horizontal length scales smaller than the deformation radius depart from geostrophic equilibrium and develop important vertical velocities, which are…

physics.flu-dyn2023

Convective heat transfer in the Burgers-Rayleigh-Bénard system

Enrico Calzavarini, Silvia C. Hirata

The dynamics of heat transfer in a model system of Rayleigh-Bénard (RB) convection reduced to its essential, here dubbed Burgers-Rayleigh-Bénard (BRB), is studied. The system is sp…

physics.flu-dyn2023★ 36 cited

Sea Water Freezing Modes in a Natural Convection System

Yihong Du, Ziqi Wang, Linfeng Jiang +2

Sea ice is crucial in many natural processes and human activities. Understanding the dynamical couplings between the inception, growth and equilibrium of sea ice and the rich fluid…

physics.flu-dyn2022★ 3 cited

Surface light modulation by sea ice and phytoplankton survival in a convective flow model

Vinicius Beltram Tergolina, Enrico Calzavarini, Gilmar Mompean +1

Plankton dynamics depend in a complex manner on a variety of physical phenomena, according to both experimental and numerical data. In particular, experimental field studies have h…

physics.flu-dyn2022★ 10 cited

Dynamics of finite-size spheroids in turbulent flow: the roles of flow structures and particle boundary layers

Linfeng Jiang, Cheng Wang, Shuang Liu +2

We study the translational and rotational dynamics of neutrally-buoyant finite-size spheroids in hydrodynamic turbulence by means of fully resolved numerical simulations. We examin…

physics.flu-dyn2021★ 1 cited

Three-dimensional turbulence effects on plankton dynamics behind an obstacle

Alice Jaccod, Stefano Berti, Enrico Calzavarini +1

We study a predator-prey model of plankton dynamics in the two and three-dimensional wakes of turbulent flows behind a cylinder, focusing on the impact of the three-dimensional cha…

physics.flu-dyn2021★ 9 cited

Effects of large-scale advection and small-scale turbulent diffusion on vertical phytoplankton dynamics

Vinicius Beltram Tergolina, Enrico Calzavarini, Gilmar Mompean +1

Turbulence has been recognized as a factor of paramount importance for the survival or extinction of sinking phytoplankton species. However, dealing with its multiscale nature in m…

physics.flu-dyn2021★ 25 cited

Equilibrium states of the ice-water front in a differentially heated rectangular cell

Ziqi Wang, Enrico Calzavarini, Chao Sun

We study the conductive and convective states of phase-change of pure water in a rectangular container where two opposite walls are kept respectively at temperatures below and abov…

physics.flu-dyn2021★ 2 cited

Predator-prey plankton dynamics in turbulent wakes behind islands

Alice Jaccod, Stefano Berti, Enrico Calzavarini +1

Plankton constitutes the productive base of aquatic ecosystems and plays an essential role in the global carbon cycle. The impact of hydrodynamic conditions on the biological activ…

physics.flu-dyn2021★ 17 cited

Statistical properties of two-dimensional elastic turbulence

Himani Garg, Enrico Calzavarini, Stefano Berti

We numerically investigate the spatial and temporal statistical properties of a dilute polymer solution in the elastic turbulence regime, i.e., in the chaotic flow state occurring…

physics.flu-dyn2021★ 11 cited

Lagrangian pair dispersion in upper-ocean turbulence in the presence of mixed-layer instabilities

Stefano Berti, Guillaume Lapeyre

Turbulence in the upper ocean in the submesoscale range (scales smaller than the deformation radius) plays an important role for the heat exchange with the atmosphere and for ocean…

physics.flu-dyn2020★ 7 cited

Rotational dynamics of bottom-heavy rods in turbulence from experiments and numerical simulations

Linfeng Jiang, Cheng Wang, Shuang Liu +2

We successfully perform the three-dimensional tracking in a turbulent fluid flow of small asymmetrical particles that are neutrally-buoyant and bottom-heavy, i.e., they have a non-…

physics.flu-dyn2020★ 29 cited

Ice front shaping by upward convective current

Ziqi Wang, Linfeng Jiang, Yihong Du +2

The extent and the morphology of ice forming in a differentially heated cavity filled with water is studied by means of experiments and numerical simulations. We show that the main…

physics.flu-dyn2020★ 1 cited

Fluctuations and correlations of reactive scalars near chemical equilibrium in incompressible turbulence

Wenwei Wu, Enrico Calzavarini, François G. Schmitt +1

The statistical properties of species undergoing chemical reactions in a turbulent environment are studied. We focus on the case of reversible multi-component reactions of second a…

physics.flu-dyn2020★ 73 cited

How the growth of ice depends on the fluid dynamics underneath

Ziqi Wang, Enrico Calzavarini, Chao Sun +1

Convective flows coupled with solidification or melting in water bodies play a major role in shaping geophysical landscapes. Particularly in relation to the global climate warming…

physics.flu-dyn2020★ 44 cited

Settling of inertial particles in turbulent Rayleigh-Benard convection

Vojtech Patocka, Enrico Calzavarini, Nicola Tosi

The settling behaviour of small inertial particles in turbulent convection is a fundamental problem across several disciplines, from geophysics to metallurgy. In a geophysical cont…

physics.flu-dyn2019★ 17 cited

Rotation of anisotropic particles in Rayleigh-Bénard turbulence

Linfeng Jiang, Enrico Calzavarini, Chao Sun

Inertialess anisotropic particles in a Rayleigh-Bénard turbulent flow show maximal tumbling rates for weakly oblate shapes, in contrast with the universal behaviour observed in dev…

physics.flu-dyn2018★ 24 cited

Robustness of heat-transfer in confined inclined convection at high-Prandtl-number

Linfeng Jiang, Chao Sun, Enrico Calzavarini

We investigate the dependency of the magnitude of heat transfer in a convection cell as a function of its inclination by means of experiments and simulations. The study is performe…

physics.flu-dyn2018★ 17 cited

Particle-laden two-dimensional elastic turbulence

Himani Garg, Enrico Calzavarini, Gilmar Mompean +1

The aggregation properties of heavy inertial particles in the elastic turbulence regime of an Oldroyd-B fluid with periodic Kolmogorov mean flow are investigated by means of extens…

physics.flu-dyn2018★ 9 cited

Propelled micro-probes in turbulence

Enrico Calzavarini, Yongxiang X. Huang, François G. Schmitt +1

The temporal statistics of incompressible fluid velocity and passive scalar fields in developed turbulent conditions is investigated by means of direct numerical simulations along…

physics.flu-dyn2018★ 66 cited

Basal melting driven by turbulent thermal convection

Babak Rabbanipour Esfahani, Silvia C. Hirata, Stefano Berti +1

Melting and, conversely, solidification processes in the presence of convection are key to many geophysical problems. An essential question related to these phenomena concerns the…