MAZZINO A.

The perception of hydrodynamic signals by self-propelled objects is a problem of paramount importance ranging from the field of bio-medical engineering to bio-inspired intelligent navigation. By means of a state-of-the-art fully resolved immersed boundary method, we propose different models for fully coupled self-propelled objects (swimmers, in...

Fungi disperse spores to move across landscapes and spore liberation takes different patterns. Many species release spores intermittently; others release spores at specific times of day. Despite intriguing evidence of periodicity, why (and if) the timing of spore release would matter to a fungus remains an open question. Here we use...

A state-of-the-art regional assessment of future wind and wave energy resource in the Mediterranean Sea and the projected changes with respect to hindcast is presented. A multi-model EURO-CORDEX ensemble of future wind field and wave climate conditions with a spatial resolution of ≈10–12.5 km and 3–6 h temporal resolution in the Mediterranean...

We provide a numerical validation of a recently proposed phenomenological theory to characterize the space-time statistical properties of a turbulent puff, both in terms of bulk properties, such as the mean velocity, temperature and size, and scaling laws for velocity and temperature differences both in the viscous and in the inertial range of...

Turbulent puffs are ubiquitous in everyday life phenomena. Understanding their dynamics is important in a variety of situations ranging from industrial processes to pure and applied science. In all these fields, a deep knowledge of the statistical structure of temperature and velocity space-time fluctuations is of paramount importance to...