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The real butterfly effect: from the pop culture to mathematics and physics
Victor de Jesus Valadão, Erik Aurell, Guido Boffetta +3
The "butterfly effect", introduced over half a century ago by Edward Lorenz, has shifted from a cornerstone of dynamical systems to a popular metaphor, yet its true physical manife…
Smart strategies to navigate turbulent odor plumes reorienting to local wind
Lorenzo Piro, Maurizio Carbone, Luca Biferale +4
Olfactory search in turbulent environments is a sensorimotor problem that many animals solve with remarkable efficiency, yet replicating this ability in artificial systems is an en…
Growth of small localized perturbations in Surface Quasi-Geostrophic turbulence
V. J. Valadão, M. Cencini, F. De Lillo +2
The butterfly effect, namely the amplification of an initially localized infinitesimal perturbation, is a fundamental hallmark of chaotic systems. While this phenomenon is well und…
Inferring the Turbulent Breakup of Colloidal Aggregates Using Graph Neural Networks
Michele Buzzicotti, Massimo Cencini, Giulio Cimini +2
Solid aggregates in turbulent suspensions may break under the action of shear stresses. We explore the use of Graph Neural Networks (GNN) to infer aggregate fragmentation once the…
Conceptual and practical approaches for investigating irreversible processes
Dario Lucente, Marco Baldovin, Fabio Cecconi +5
Current research in statistical mechanics mostly concerns the investigation of out-of-equilibrium, irreversible processes, which are ubiquitous in nature and still far from being t…
Modeling straight and circle swimmers via immersed boundary methods: from single swimmer to collective motion
Francesco Michele Ventrella, Guido Boffetta, Massimo Cencini +1
We propose a minimal model of microswimmer based on immersed boundary methods. We describe a swimmer (either pusher or puller) as a distribution of point forces, representing the s…