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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…
Effect of swimming mode on shielding of odor traces in turbulence
Martin James, Francesco Viola, Agnese Seminara
Marine organisms manipulate their surrounding flow through their swimming dynamics, which affects the transport of their own odor cues. We demonstrate by direct numerical simulatio…
Fluid dynamics of COVID-19 airborne infection suggests urgent data for a scientific design of social distancing
M. E. Rosti, S. Olivieri, M. Cavaiola +2
The COVID-19 pandemic is largely caused by airborne transmission, a phenomenon that rapidly gained the attention of the scientific community. Social distancing is of paramount impo…
Turbulence dictates the fate of virus-containing droplets in violent expiratory events
Marco E. Rosti, Mattia Cavaiola, Stefano Olivieri +2
Violent expiratory events, such as coughing and sneezing, are highly nontrivial examples of a two-phase mixture of liquid droplets dispersed into an unsteady turbulent airflow. Und…
Summoning the wind: Hydrodynamic cooperation of forcibly ejected fungal spores
Marcus Roper, Agnese Seminara, Ann Cobb +2
The forcibly launched spores of the crop pathogen \emph{Sclerotinia sclerotiorum} must eject through many centimeters of nearly still air to reach the flowers of the plants that th…