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Universal alignment in turbulent pair dispersion
Ron Shnapp, Stefano Brizzolara, Marius M. Neamtu-Halic +2
Countless processes in nature and industry, from rain droplet nucleation to plankton interaction in the ocean, are intimately related to turbulent fluctuations of local concentrati…
Clustering through pair interactions in swimming zooplankton
Ron Shnapp, François-Gaël Michalec, Markus Holzner
This work focuses on the formation of mating aggregates in zooplankton. In particular, sexual encounters are behaviourally supported by males actively swimming in search for female…
Transition from shear-dominated to Rayleigh-Taylor turbulence
Stefano Brizzolara, Jean-Paul Mollicone, Maarten van Reeuwijk +2
Turbulent mixing layers in nature are often characterized by the presence of a mean shear and an unstable buoyancy gradient between two streams of different velocity. Depending on…
Fiber Tracking Velocimetry for two-point statistics of turbulence
Stefano Brizzolara, Marco Edoardo Rosti, Stefano Olivieri +3
We propose and validate a novel experimental technique to measure two-point statistics of turbulent flows. It consists in spreading rigid fibers in the flow and tracking their posi…
Role of vortical structures for enstrophy and scalar transport in flows with and without stable stratification
M. M. Neamtu-Halic, J. -P. Mollicone, M. van Reeuwijk +1
In this paper, we investigate the enstrophy dynamics in relation to objective Eulerian coherent structures (OECSs) and their impact on the enstrophy and scalar transport near the t…
Efficient mate finding in planktonic copepods swimming in turbulence
François-Gaël Michalec, Itzhak Fouxon, Sami Souissi +1
Zooplankton live in dynamic environments where turbulence may challenge their limited swimming abilities. How this interferes with fundamental behavioral processes remains elusive.…