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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…
Gyrotactic phytoplankton in laminar and turbulent flows: a dynamical systems approach
Massimo Cencini, Guido Boffetta, Matteo Borgnino +1
Gyrotactic algae are bottom heavy, motile cells whose swimming direction is determined by a balance between a buoyancy torque directing them upwards and fluid velocity gradients. G…
Effective rates in dilute reaction-advection systems for the annihilation process
Giorgio Krstulovic, Massimo Cencini, Jeremie Bec
A dilute system of reacting particles transported by fluid flows is considered. The particles react as with a given rate when they are within a finite radiu…
The prediction of future from the past: an old problem from a modern perspective
F. Cecconi, M. Cencini, M Falcioni +1
The idea of predicting the future from the knowledge of the past is quite natural when dealing with systems whose equations of motion are not known. Such a long-standing issue is r…
Clustering of gyrotactic microorganisms in turbulent flows
Filippo De Lillo, Guido Boffetta, Massimo Cencini
We study the spatial distribution of gyrotactic microorganisms transported by a three-dimensional turbulent flow generated by direct numerical simulations. We find that gyrotaxis c…
Role of chaos for the validity of statistical mechanics laws: diffusion and conduction
Massimo Cencini, Fabio Cecconi, Massimo Falcioni +1
Several years after the pioneering work by Fermi Pasta and Ulam, fundamental questions about the link between dynamical and statistical properties remain still open in modern stati…