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Centripetal focusing of gyrotactic phytoplankton in solid-body rotation
M. Cencini, M. Franchino, F. Santamaria +1
A suspension of gyrotactic microalgae Chlamydomonas augustae swimming in a cylindrical water vessel in solid-body rotation is studied. Our experiments show that swimming algae form…
Clustering and Turbophoresis in a Shear Flow without Walls
Filippo De Lillo, Massimo Cencini, Stefano Musacchio +1
We investigate the spatial distribution of inertial particles suspended in the bulk of a turbulent inhomogeneous flow. By means of direct numerical simulations of particle trajecto…
On the evolution of particle-puffs in turbulence
Stefano Bianchi, Luca Biferale, Antonio Celani +1
We study the evolution of turbulent puffs by means of high-resolution numerical simulations. Puffs are bunches of passive particles released from an initially spherical distributio…
The role of the number of degrees of freedom and chaos in macroscopic irreversibility
Luca Cerino, Fabio Cecconi, Massimo Cencini +1
This article aims at revisiting, with the aid of simple and neat numerical examples, some of the basic features of macroscopic irreversibility, and, thus, of the mechanical foundat…
Extinction dynamics of a discrete population in an oasis
Stefano Berti, Massimo Cencini, Davide Vergni +1
Understanding the conditions ensuring the persistence of a population is an issue of primary importance in population biology. The first theoretical approach to the problem dates b…