Research Lines. Fluid dynamics, Biofluids, and Geophysical fluids
Fluid dynamics, Biofluids, and Geophysical fluids
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Description
Fluid flow is a natural process occurring in a huge range of scales, from blood capillaries to atmospheric weather systems. It is also widely spread in technological settings, being its understanding crucial to aircraft design or materials production, for example.
We concentrate in two research directions: on the one hand we study basic processes in fluid flow such as stirring, mixing, chemical or biological reactivity, instabilities, pattern formation, motion of non-ideal tracers, etc. The point of view of chaotic advection is a convenient starting point. On the other hand, we apply these concepts and methods to geophysical settings, mostly in ocean dynamics: transport modelling, plankton patchiness, ocean forecasting, stochastic forcing effects, etc. More recent topics include studies of biofluids, such as embrionic nodal flow, or plankton and bacterial swimming, and topics in microfluidics.
- Neutrally bouyant particles and bailout embedding in 3D flows
- Spatial structures in reacting systems
- Chaotic Advection in a Realistic Three-Dimensional Flow
- Excitable media in chaotic flows
- Sand stirred by chaotic advection
- On Some Nonlinear Phenomena appearing in Plankton Models in Chaotic Flows
- Searching for manifolds in de ocean: some dynamical systems approaches
- Transport and mixing in the Mediterranean sea by Finite Size Lyapunov Exponents calculation
- Transport Dynamics in the Western Mediterranean: Stretching fields and hyperbolic lines.
- Oceanic mixing studies from satellite data.
- Frigatebirds follow Lagrangian Coherent Structures (alternative title: Flying on top of ocean highways)
Research Lines
- Complex systems. Nonlinear and Statistical Physics
- Quantum physics: photons, electrons and information
- Nonlinear Optics and Dynamics of Optoelectronic Devices
- Fluid dynamics, Biofluids, and Geophysical fluids
- Biological Physics and nonlinear phenomena in ecology and physiology
- Dynamics and collective phenomena of social systems
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