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Intermittency in the relative separations of tracers and of heavy particles in turbulent flows

Results from direct numerical simulations (DNS) of particle relative dispersion in three-dimensional homogeneous and isotropic turbulence at Reynolds number Re?~300 are presented. We study point-like passive tracers and heavy particles, at Stokes number St=0.6,1 and 5. Particles are emitted from…

Quantifying trace gas emissions from composite landscapes: A mass-budget approach with aircraft measurements

Quantifying trace gas emissions and the influence of surface exchange processes on the atmosphere is a necessary step towards the control of global greenhouse gas emissions and reliability of air quality models. This paper proposes a procedure based on the mass balance method and implemented on…

Detweiler's redshift invariant for extended bodies orbiting a Schwarzschild black hole

We compute the first-order self-force contribution to Detweiler's redshift invariant for extended bodies endowed with both dipolar and quadrupolar structure (with spin-induced quadrupole moment) moving along circular orbits on a Schwarzschild background. Our analysis includes effects which arc…

Exponential Lawson integration for nearly Hamiltonian systems arising in optimal control

We are concerned with the discretization of optimal control problems when a Runge-Kutta scheme is selected for the related Hamiltonian system. It is known that Lagrangian's first order conditions on the discrete model, require a symplectic partitioned Runge-Kutta scheme for state-costate equations…

High performance implementations of the 2D Ising model on GPUs

We present and make available novel implementations of the two-dimensional Ising model that is used as a benchmark to show the computational capabilities of modern Graphic Processing Units (GPUs). The rich programming environment now available on GPUs and flexible hardware capabilities allowed us…

Multiscale modelling in immunology: a review

One of the greatest challenges in biomedicine is to get a unified view of observations made from the molecular up to the organism scale. Towards this goal, multiscale models have been highly instrumental in contexts such as the cardiovascular field, angiogenesis, neurosciences and tumour biology.…

Endothelial shear stress hemodynamic simulation

Evidences of Bolgiano-Obhukhov scaling in three dimensional Rayleigh-Binard convection

Information disorders during the COVID-19 infodemic: The case of Italian Facebook

The recent COVID-19 pandemic came alongside with an "infodemic", with online social media flooded by often unreliable information associating the medical emergency with popular subjects of disinformation. In Italy, one of the first European countries suffering a rise in new cases and dealing with a…

Gaussian Estimates for the Solutions of Some One-dimensional Stochastic Equations

Using covariance identities based on the Clark-Ocone representation formula we derive Gaussian density bounds and tail estimates for the probability law of the solutions of several types of stochastic differential equations, including Stratonovich equations with boundary condition and irregular…