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most citedZermelo's problem: Optimal point-to-point navigation in 2D turbulent flows using Reinforcement Learning

119 citations · 780 across the 49 of their papers we have counts for

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49 papers

physics.flu-dyn2026

Drift of interfaces in forced stably-stratified turbulence and the role of vertically-sheared helical structures

Niccolò Cocciaglia, Luca Biferale, Fabio Bonaccorso +1

Experimental investigations of forced stably stratified turbulence (SST) have shown that the step-like density profile, made of well-mixed density layers and sharp interfaces alter…

physics.flu-dyn2026

Stochastic Multiscale Reconstruction of Lagrangian Turbulence via Guided Diffusion Models

Conghui Wang, Tianyi Li, Luca Biferale +3

Lagrangian turbulence is characterized by intermittent, fat-tailed fluctuations and nontrivial correlations across temporal scales, making a quantitative description of its full mu…

physics.flu-dyn2026

Physics-Constrained Diffusion Model for Synthesis of 3D Turbulent Data

Tianyi Li, Michele Buzzicotti, Fabio Bonaccorso +1

Synthesizing fully developed three-dimensional turbulent velocity fields remains a long-standing problem in fluid mechanics and an open challenge for generative modeling. The diffi…

physics.flu-dyn2025

Long-time evolution of density layers and interfaces in forced stably-stratified flows

Niccolo Cocciaglia, Fabio Bonaccorso, Alessandra Sabina Lanotte +1

Stably stratified fluids subject to sustained forcing are known to develop step-like density "staircases", where nearly homogeneous layers alternate with thin interfaces of strong…

physics.flu-dyn2025

TURB-Scalar. A large database of passive scalar fields advected by 2D Navier-Stokes in the turbulent inverse cascade regime

Chiara Calascibetta, Luca Biferale, Fabio Bonaccorso +1

We introduce TURB-Scalar, an open-access database comprising approximately uncorrelated snapshots of two-dimensional turbulent velocity and passive scalar fields, obtained fr…

physics.flu-dyn2025

TURB-Smoke. A database of Lagrangian pollutants emitted from point-sources and dispersed in turbulent flows

Luca Biferale, Fabio Bonaccorso, Niccolò Cocciaglia +2

Identifying the location and characteristics of pollution sources in turbulent flows is challenging, especially for environmental monitoring and emergency response, due to sparse,…

physics.flu-dyn2025

Deterministic diffusion models for Lagrangian turbulence: robustness and encoding of extreme events

Tianyi Li, Flavio Tuteri, Michele Buzzicotti +2

Modeling Lagrangian turbulence remains a fundamental challenge due to its multiscale, intermittent, and non-Gaussian nature. Recent advances in data-driven diffusion models have en…

physics.flu-dyn2025

Hidden symmetry in passive scalar advected by 2D Navier-Stokes turbulence

Chiara Calascibetta, Luca Biferale, Fabio Bonaccorso +2

Here we show that passive scalars possess a hidden scaling symmetry when considering suitably rescaled fields. Such a symmetry implies (i) universal probability distribution for sc…

physics.flu-dyn2025

Scale invariance of intermittency in LES turbulence

B. Magacho, S. Thalabard, M. Buzzicotti +3

Turbulent flows exhibit large intermittent fluctuations from inertial to dissipative scales, characterized by multifractal statistics and breaking the statistical self-similarity.…

physics.flu-dyn2025

TURB-MHD: an open-access database of forced homogeneous magnetohydrodynamic turbulence

Damiano Capocci, Luca Biferale, Fabio Bonaccorso +1

We present TURB-MHD, a database formed by six datasets of three-dimensional incompressible homogeneous magnetohydrodynamic turbulence maintained by a large-scale random forcing wit…

physics.flu-dyn2024

Stochastic Reconstruction of Gappy Lagrangian Turbulent Signals by Conditional Diffusion Models

Tianyi Li, Luca Biferale, Fabio Bonaccorso +2

We present a stochastic method for reconstructing missing spatial and velocity data along the trajectories of small objects passively advected by turbulent flows with a wide range…

physics.flu-dyn2024

Generative diffusion models for synthetic trajectories of heavy and light particles in turbulence

Tianyi Li, Samuele Tommasi, Michele Buzzicotti +2

Heavy and light particles are commonly found in many natural phenomena and industrial processes, such as suspensions of bubbles, dust, and droplets in incompressible turbulent flow…

physics.flu-dyn2024

TURB-Hel: an open-access database of helically forced homogeneous and isotropic turbulence

Luca Biferale, Fabio Bonaccorso, Moritz Linkmann +1

We present TURB-Hel, a database formed by two datasets of incompressible homogeneous and isotropic turbulence, maintained in a statistically stationary state by fully helical forci…

physics.flu-dyn2023

Multi-scale Reconstruction of Turbulent Rotating Flows with Generative Diffusion Models

Tianyi Li, Alessandra S. Lanotte, Michele Buzzicotti +2

We address the problem of data augmentation in a rotating turbulence set-up, a paradigmatic challenge in geophysical applications. The goal is to reconstruct information in two-dim…

physics.flu-dyn2023★ 58 cited

Synthetic Lagrangian Turbulence by Generative Diffusion Models

Tianyi Li, Luca Biferale, Fabio Bonaccorso +2

Lagrangian turbulence lies at the core of numerous applied and fundamental problems related to the physics of dispersion and mixing in engineering, bio-fluids, atmosphere, oceans,…

physics.comp-ph2023

Multiscale Hybrid Modeling of Proteins in Solvent: SARS-CoV2 Spike Protein as test case for Lattice Boltzmann -- All Atom Molecular Dynamics Coupling

Marco Lauricella, Letizia Chiodo, Fabio Bonaccorso +6

Physiological solvent flows surround biological structures triggering therein collective motions. Notable examples are virus/host-cell interactions and solvent-mediated allosteric…

cs.DC2023★ 1 cited

Thread-safe lattice Boltzmann for high-performance computing on GPUs

Andrea Montessori, Marco Lauricella, Adriano Tiribocchi +5

We present thread-safe, highly-optimized lattice Boltzmann implementations, specifically aimed at exploiting the high memory bandwidth of GPU-based architectures. At variance with…

physics.flu-dyn2023★ 6 cited

TURB-Lagr. A database of 3d Lagrangian trajectories in homogeneous and isotropic turbulence

Luca Biferale, Fabio Bonaccorso, Michele Buzzicotti +1

We present TURB-Lagr, a new open database of 3d turbulent Lagrangian trajectories, obtained by Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS) of the original Navier-Stokes equations in the pre…

physics.flu-dyn2023★ 13 cited

Generative Adversarial Networks to infer velocity components in rotating turbulent flows

Tianyi Li, Michele Buzzicotti, Luca Biferale +1

Inference problems for two-dimensional snapshots of rotating turbulent flows are studied. We perform a systematic quantitative benchmark of point-wise and statistical reconstructio…

physics.flu-dyn2023★ 14 cited

Lightweight Lattice Boltzmann

Adriano Tiribocchi, Andrea Montessori, Giorgio Amati +5

A GPU-accelerated version of the lattice Boltzmann method for efficient simulation of soft materials is introduced. Unlike standard approaches, this method reconstructs the distrib…

physics.flu-dyn2022★ 37 cited

Multi-scale data reconstruction of turbulent rotating flows with Gappy POD, Extended POD and Generative Adversarial Networks

Tianyi Li, Michele Buzzicotti, Luca Biferale +3

Data reconstruction of rotating turbulent snapshots is investigated utilizing data-driven tools. This problem is crucial for numerous geophysical applications and fundamental aspec…

cs.CV2022★ 48 cited

DropTrack -- automatic droplet tracking using deep learning for microfluidic applications

Mihir Durve, Adriano Tiribocchi, Fabio Bonaccorso +5

Deep neural networks are rapidly emerging as data analysis tools, often outperforming the conventional techniques used in complex microfluidic systems. One fundamental analysis fre…

cond-mat.soft2022★ 21 cited

Stochastic jetting and dripping in confined soft granular flows

Michał Bogdan, Andrea Montessori, Adriano Tiribocchi +5

We report new dynamical modes in confined soft granular flows, such as stochastic jetting and dripping, with no counterpart in continuum viscous fluids. The new modes emerge as a r…

cond-mat.soft2022★ 11 cited

Curvature dynamics and long-range effects on fluid-fluid interfaces with colloids

A. Tiribocchi, F. Bonaccorso, M. Lauricella +3

We investigate the dynamics of a phase-separating binary fluid, containing colloidal dumbbells anchored to the fluid-fluid interface. Extensive Lattice Boltzmann-Immersed Boundary…