8 papers
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…
Olfactory pursuit: catching a moving odor source in complex flows
Maurizio Carbone, Lorenzo Piro, Robin A. Heinonen +3
Locating and intercepting a moving target from possibly delayed, intermittent sensory signals is a paradigmatic problem in decision-making under uncertainty, and a fundamental chal…
Multi-Scale Data Assimilation in Turbulent Models
Francesco Fossella, Luca Biferale, Alberto Carrassi +2
We explore the potential of Data-Assimilation (DA) within the multi-scale framework of a shell model of turbulence, with a focus on the Ensemble Kalman Filter (EnKF). The central o…
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…
Acceleration of Lagrangian Particles in Shell Models of Turbulence
Lorenzo Piro, Massimo Cencini, Roberto Benzi
Lagrangian acceleration has been investigated both experimentally and numerically in the past, and it has been shown to exhibit extreme fluctuations, which have been rationalized a…
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…