Salvatore Lovecchio

Personal Information

Date of Birth: December, 13, 1985

Education

Liceo Scientifico Sante Simone, Conversano (BA), Italy, 1999-2004
Degrees: Laurea ( B.Sc.) Physics, Università di Bari, Italy, 2004-2009.
Thesis Advisor:
Prof. Franz Navach, " Recent developments in monolithic pixel Silicon detectors "
Laurea ( M.Sc.) Computational Physics, Università di Udine, Italy, 2009-2011.
Thesis Advisor:
Prof. A. Soldati, Prof. F.Toschi (TU/e), Dott.Ing. C.Marchioli, " Direct Numerical Simulation of particle sedimentation and resuspension mechanisms in turbulent boundary layer "

Activities:

March 2015- present: Postdoc Institut de Mécanique des Fluides de Toulouse IMFT , France;
January 2012 - February 2015: PhD, Chemical and Energetical Tecnologies Univesità di Udine , Italy;
October 2013- July 2014: Fellowship, Institut de Mécanique des Fluides de Toulouse IMFT , France;
June 2011 - September 2011: HPC visitor, Technishe Universiteit Eindhoven , Department of Applied Physics, Eindhoven (NL);
March 2009 - May 2009: Internship at INFN (National Institute of Nuclear Physics), Bari ("Tests for the characterization and choise of modules forming the silicon pixel detector of ALICE experiment (CERN)")

Curriculum vitae:

Download Short CV (PDF)

Research Interests:

Energy fluxes and flow topology at free-surface of turbulent channel flow

Finite Size Lyapunov Exponent at the free surface of turbulent channel flow

Lagrangian Particle Tracking and time evolution of floating particle clusters:

Particle cluster at the turbulent free-surface with the surface divergence
Download the Movie:Correlation between floater clusters and surface divergence at shear Reynold number = 171
Download the Movie: Correlation between floater clusters and surface divergence at shear Reynold number = 509

Turbulent stably stratified open channel flows:

Active particles in turbulent flow:
work in progress...

I am also interested in:
dynamical systems, chaotic advection, transition to turbulence, direct and inverse cascade of energy in 2D/3D flows,
fluid dynamics of climate, life at high Reynolds number, active particles

Conferences

• 18-20 November 2012, 65th Annual Meeting of the APS, San Diego
• 10-12 June 2013, Two-pHase modElling for Sediment dynamIcS, Chatou: Download Presentation (PDF)
  
• 1-5 July 2013, Particles in turbulence,Eindhoven: Download Presentation (PDF)
  
• 24-26 November 2013, 66th Annual Meeting of the APS, Pittsburgh
• 14-18 September 2014, 10th European Fluid Mechanics Conference, Copenhagen

Miscellanea:


Poster Session January 2014, University of Udine , Time persistence of floating particle clusters in free-surface turbulence

Pubblications:

• "Time persistence of floating particle clusters in free-surface turbulence"
  ( Phys.Rev.E , 88 033003) Selected to appear as a PRE Kaleidoscope image
• "Influence of thermal stratification on the surfacing and clustering of floaters in free surface turbulence"
  ( Advances in Water Resources )
• "Upscale energy transfer and flow topology in free surface turbulence"
  ( Phys.Rev.E ) Selected to appear as a PRE Kaleidoscope image

PRESS (italian ANSA):

• Plankton & climate
• Ocean & CO2