"Hello, World!"

I'm Francesco Picella, Maitre des Conférences (Lecturer) at Institut d'Alembert, Sorbone Université (France).

I'm interested in problems involving the coupling of hydrodynamics with complex interfaces (i.e. biomimetic), as well as with chemical and electrical fields.

My goal is to understand the key physical ingredients leading to the transitions characterizing these experimental systems, employing numerical simulations, mathematical modelling and global linear stability analysis, successively breaking symmetries up to a chaotic behavior.

Any (un)common interest? Mail me! :) Just mail me :)

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Francesco

1. Picella, F., Loiseau, J.-C., Lusseyran, F., Robinet, J.-C., Cherubini, S., & Pastur, L. (2018). Successive bifurcations in a fully three-dimensional open cavity flow. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 844, 855-877. doi:10.1017/jfm.2018.169

2. Picella, F., Bucci M.A., Cherubini S., Robinet J.-C. (2019). A synthetic forcing to trigger laminar-turbulent transition in parallel wall bounded flows via receptivity. Journal of Computational Physics, 393, doi:10.1016/j.jcp.2019.04.011.

3. Picella, F., Robinet, J., & Cherubini, S. (2019). Laminar–turbulent transition in channel flow with superhydrophobic surfaces modelled as a partial slip wall. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 881, 462-497. doi:10.1017/jfm.2019.740

4. Picella, F., Robinet, J., & Cherubini, S. (2020). On the influence of the modelling of superhydrophobic surfaces on laminar–turbulent transition. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 901, A15. doi:10.1017/jfm.2020.516

5. Cherubini, S., Picella, F., Robinet, J.-C. (2021). Variational Nonlinear Optimization in Fluid Dynamics: The Case of a Channel Flow with Superhydrophobic Walls. MDPI - Mathematics, 2227-7390. doi: 10.3390/math9010053

6. Picella, F., & Michelin, S. (2022). Confined self-propulsion of an isotropic active colloid. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 933, A27. doi:10.1017/jfm.2021.1081