no code implementations • 23 Feb 2022 • Abigail Plummer, Mara Freilich, Roberto Benzi, Chang Jae Choi, Lisa Sudek, Alexandra Z. Worden, Federico Toschi, Amala Mahadevan
Ecological interactions among phytoplankton occur in a moving fluid environment.
no code implementations • 29 Dec 2021 • Gianni V. Vinci, Roberto Benzi, Maurizio Mattia
Despite the huge number of neurons composing a brain network, ongoing activity of local cell assemblies composing cortical columns is intrinsically stochastic.
no code implementations • 16 Dec 2021 • Roberto Benzi, David R. Nelson, Suraj Shankar, Federico Toschi, Xiaojue Zhu
The growth and evolution of microbial populations is often subjected to advection by fluid flows in spatially extended environments, with immediate consequences for questions of spatial population genetics in marine ecology, planktonic diversity and origin of life scenarios.
no code implementations • 13 Nov 2019 • Alessandro Corbetta, Vlado Menkovski, Roberto Benzi, Federico Toschi
Turbulence, the ubiquitous and chaotic state of fluid motions, is characterized by strong and statistically non-trivial fluctuations of the velocity field, over a wide range of length- and time-scales, and it can be quantitatively described only in terms of statistical averages.
1 code implementation • 11 Oct 2019 • Wolfram Möbius, Francesca Tesser, Kim M. J. Alards, Roberto Benzi, David R. Nelson, Federico Toschi
In a regime where front dynamics is determined by a local front speed only, a principle of least time can be employed to predict front speed and shape.