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We introduce a modal representation for Lagrangian trajectories in turbulence, termed Lagrangian Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (LPOD). An ensemble of particle trajectories is used to construct velocity time series, which are normalized…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-27 Ron Shnapp , Stefano Brizzolara

Non-spherical particles transported by an anisotropic turbulent flow preferentially align with the mean shear and intermittently tumble when the local strain fluctuates. Such an intricate behaviour is here studied for inertialess,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-12-27 Lorenzo Campana , Mireille Bossy , Jeremie Bec

Spatial regions that do not mix effectively with their surroundings and thus contribute less to the heat transport in fully turbulent three-dimensional Rayleigh-B\'{e}nard flows are identified by Lagrangian trajectories that stay together…

We numerically investigate the feasibility and limits of jointly estimating flow fields and unknown particle properties (e.g., position, size, and density) from Lagrangian particle tracking (LPT) data. LPT offers time-resolved, volumetric…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-26 Ke Zhou , Samuel J. Grauer

Active flows are central to mixing and transport across living systems. While Newtonian fluids remain laminar, diffusive and predictable at the microscale, living fluids like dense bacterial suspensions can exhibit highly chaotic flows like…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-26 Suvarchalanjan Bellaganti , Amal Manoharan , Kirti Kashyap , Siddhartha Mukherjee

The Lagrangian probability-density-function model, proposed in Part I for dense particle-laden turbulent flows, is validated here against Eulerian-Lagrangian direct numerical simulation (EL) data for different homogeneous flows, namely…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-03-02 Alessio Innocenti , Rodney O Fox , Maria Vittoria Salvetti , Sergio Chibbaro

The statistical properties of fluid particles transported by a fully developed turbulent flow are investigated by means of high resolution direct numerical simulations. Single trajectory statistics is investigated in a time range spanning…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Biferale , G. Boffetta , A. Celani , A. Lanotte , F. Toschi

The study of transport and mixing processes in dynamical systems is particularly important for the analysis of mathematical models of physical systems. We propose a novel, direct geometric method to identify subsets of phase space that…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-10-28 Gary Froyland

We propose a hybrid feedback control law that guarantees both safety and asymptotic stability for a class of Lagrangian systems in environments with obstacles. Rather than performing trajectory planning and implementing a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-12 Fernando S. Barbosa , Lars Lindemann , Dimos V. Dimarogonas , Jana Tumova

A computationally efficient model is introduced to account for the sub-grid scale velocities of tracer particles dispersed in statistically homogeneous and isotropic turbulent flows. The model embeds the multi-scale nature of turbulent…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-18 I. M. Mazzitelli , F. Toschi , A. S. Lanotte

In this paper, we deal with the problem to predict the future 3D motions of 3D object scans from previous two consecutive frames. Previous methods mostly focus on sparse motion prediction in the form of skeletons. While in this paper we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Shuaihang Yuan , Xiang Li , Anthony Tzes , Yi Fang

Particle tracking in turbulent flows is fundamental to the study of the transport of tracers, inertial particles or even active objects in space and time, i.e. the Lagrangian frame of reference. It provides experimental tests of theoretical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-04-08 Christian Küchler , Antonio Ibanez Landeta , Jan Molacek , Eberhard Bodenschatz

We present an investigation of the statistics of velocity gradient related quantities, in particluar energy dissipation rate and enstrophy, along the trajectories of fluid tracers and of heavy/light particles advected by a homogeneous and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-12-30 Roberto Benzi , Luca Biferale , Enrico Calzavarini , Detlef Lohse , Federico Toschi

Understanding blood transport in cardiovascular flows is important for managing patients with cardiovascular disease. In this study, three-dimensional Lagrangian coherent structures have been extracted for the first time in both healthy…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-01-05 Wissam Abdallah , Ahmed Darwish , Julio Garcia , Lyes Kadem

Active fluids, such as cytoskeletal filaments, bacterial colonies and epithelial cell layers, exhibit distinctive orientational coherence, often characterized by nematic order and topological defects. By contrast, little is known about…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-04-07 Mattia Serra , Linnea Lemma , Luca Giomi , Zvonimir Dogic , L. Mahadevan

Lagrangian descriptors provide a global dynamical picture of the geometric structures for arbitrarily time-dependent flows with broad applications. This paper develops a mathematical framework for computing Lagrangian descriptors when…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-07-11 Nan Chen , Evelyn Lunasin , Stephen Wiggins

Lagrangian transport structures for three-dimensional and time-dependent fluid flows are of great interest in numerous applications, particularly for geophysical or oceanic flows. In such flows, chaotic transport and mixing can play…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-05-09 Rodolphe Chabreyrie , Stefan G. Llewellyn Smith

This paper offers an integrative data-driven physics-inspired approach to model and control traffic congestion in a resilient and efficient manner. While existing physics-based approaches commonly assign density and flow traffic states by…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-03 Hossein Rastgoftar , Ella Atkins

A dynamical systems approach to turbulence envisions the flow as a trajectory through a high-dimensional state space transiently visiting the neighbourhoods of unstable simple invariant solutions (E. Hopf, Commun. Appl. Maths 1, 303, 1948).…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-11-15 Jacob Page , Peter Norgaard , Michael P. Brenner , Rich R. Kerswell

A new theory for determining the mass function of cosmic structures is presented. It relies on a realistic treatment of collapse dynamics. Gravitational collapse is analyzed in the Lagrangian perturbative framework. Lagrangian perturbations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Pierluigi Monaco