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May 30, 2025 — The Philofluid Research Group, coordinated by Prof. Daniela Tordella, successfully hosted a seminar titled “Panoramica Sull’utilizzo Civile dell’Energia Nucleare” on Friday, May 30, at the Department of Science and Technological Innovation (DISAT). The seminar drew the attention of students, faculty, and......
At the EGU General Assembly 2025, held in Vienna from 27 April to 2 May, the Philofluid Research group presented exciting new developments in the study of turbulent dispersion within the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL). Through both a poster and an oral presentation, the......
On March 6th, the Philofluid Research Group at Politecnico di Torino, coordinated by Prof. Tordella, hosted distinguished speakers from INRIM (Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica) for a seminar titled “Single and Multi-Bubble Sonochemistry and Sonoluminescence.” The seminar was presented by Dr. Daniele Madonna Ripa (Applied......
We were honored to attend an insightful seminar at Politecnico di Torino, led by Prof. Silvano Massaglia, coordinator of the Philofluid research group in the DISAT department. The session focused on normal and active galaxies, the Black Hole paradigm for active galaxies, and the......
Exciting Milestone in the COMPLETE Project: Doctoral Dissertation Successfully Defended The Philofluid Research Group is thrilled to celebrate a significant achievement within the scope of the COMPLETE project. Shahbozbek Abdunabiev, one of our Early Stage Researchers (ESR 15), successfully defended his doctoral dissertation on October......
Seminar Recap: Prof. Robert Edward Breidenthal on “How to Tackle a Turbulent Vortex” On October 17th, 2024, the Department of Applied Science and Technology (DISAT) at Politecnico di Torino, led by Prof. D. Tordella, welcomed Prof. Robert Edward Breidenthal from the University of Washington, Seattle,......
Philofluid research group conducted cluster launch experiments with the POLITO radiosonde network during the Wessex Convection campaign (WESCON) 2023. The experiments were carried out around Chilbolton area, UK. Two cluster launches were performed on July 5 and 6, 2023 at the Chilbolton Observatory. The experiments......
Publication Announcement: Paper Authored by Marco Boetti, ESR7 The Philofluid Research Group is pleased to announce the recent publication of a groundbreaking paper authored by Marco Boetti in the International Journal of Multiphase Flow. Marco’s paper, titled “Pair dispersion of inertial particles crossing stably stratified......
The Philofluid Research Group is excited to announce that Marco Boetti, one of our distinguished Early Stage Researchers (ESR 7) in the COMPLETE H2020 project, has been appointed as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici (CMCC). Throughout his time with the......
An insightful seminar titled “Ultra-Low Power IoT: Enabling Accurate Sensing Everywhere and Every Time”. Organized under the guidance of Prof. D. Tordella On February 28, 2024, Philofluid Research Group hosted an insightful seminar titled “Ultra-Low Power IoT: Enabling Accurate Sensing Everywhere and Every Time”. Organized......
The Philofluid Research Group is delighted to announce a major milestone within the COMPLETE H2020 project. Marco Boetti, one of our Early Stage Researchers (ESR 7), has successfully completed his doctoral dissertation on February 11th, 2024, at Tel Aviv University. This remarkable achievement marks the......
We presented the radiosonde cluster among research experts on Lagrangian Turbulence during the 18th European Turbulence Conference, which was held on Sep 4-6, 2023 at Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain. The current Lagrangian measurements were carried out by using a freely floating cluster of mini,......
18th European Turbulence Conference, September 4-6, 2023, Valencia, Spain Recent results on turbulent dispersion analysis were presented by Philofluid research group of Politecnico di Torino during the 18th edition of ETC at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain. We expand on the original studies on......
The radiosonde cluster network was presented during the IEEE International Workshop on Metrology for Industry 4.0 & IoT 2023. The workshop was held at the University of Brescia on June 6-8, 2023, Brescia, Italy. MetroInd4.0&IoT aims to gather people who work in developing instrumentation and measurement methods......
The COMPLETE Project is proud to celebrate the graduation of ESR 9, Mohammadi, Moein who successfully defended his PhD on March 1, 2023, under the supervision of Prof. Szymon Malinowski. His groundbreaking research, titled “Cloud Microphysical Measurements with Shadowgraph Imaging Technique,” presents innovative approaches to studying cloud......
MIGRE MINI GREEN ULTRALIGHT EXPENDABLE RADIO SONDE Period: 01/03/2022 – 30/11/2022 Project Description The mini ultralight smart balloon is a strategic new kind of expendable low cost, small (max 30 cm), light (about 20 g), environmental friendly (Mater-Bi.) radio probe embedding a microprocessor, IMU,......
A field experiment on mini green radiosondes on 3 November (St Barthelemy) The experimental setup was realized with ten radio probes that freely flying. We filled the ten balloons with helium. We used two ground stations to receive information from the probes during their flight.......
On 10/02/2022, in-field radiosonde experiment in Astronomical Observatory of Saint Barthelemy located in Lignan, Italy was done by the Complete group (Shahbozbek Abdunabiev, Mina Golshan, Daniela Tordella, Andrea Caporali, and Chiara Giron). The Relative distance (position, pressure, humidity, temperature) tracking from a set of five......
They study the motion of inertial solid particles across stratified turbulent/non-turbulent interfaces (STNTI). Previous studies in quiescent stratified layers demonstrated that inertial particles slow down due to an additional force term related to the stratification. They report for the first time a similar effect on......
“Excited to announce the publication of our latest research paper, ‘Diffusion of Turbulence Following Both Stable and Unstable Step Stratification Perturbations,’ by L. Gallana, S. Abdunabiev, M. Golshan, D. Tordella, in Physics of Fluids (Volume 34, Issue 6). Check it out here: [DOI: 10.1063/5.0090042].” ......
The paper on the microphysical time scales has been accepted and is already published in Physics of Fluids (AIP) by Ludovico Fossà, Shahbozbek Abdunabiev, Mina Golshan, Daniela Tordella Recent results have shown that there is an acceleration in the spread of the size distribution of droplet populations in the......
The Philofluid Research Group is proud to announce that Mina Golshan has successfully finalized her doctoral dissertation on “Cloud Turbulence Microphysics at Interfaces: A DNS Model with Phase Change and Droplet Interaction” at the Politecnico di Milano, Department of Aerospace Science and Technology (DAER). The......
Visiting an Astronomical Observatory of Saint Barthelemy located in Lignan, Italy...
On 29th September 2021, a set of five Radioprobes was tested by the Complete group (Shahbozbek Abdunabiev, Mina Golshan, Daniela Tordella, Andrea Caporali, and Chiara Giron) and INRIM collaboration (Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica, Andrea Merlone, Chiara Musacchio, Coppa Graziano) in comparison with a weather......
Delighted to announce the paper published by Marco Boetti, Maarten van Reeuwijk, and Alexander Liberzon (Phys. Rev. Fluids 6, 114803 – Published 15 November 2021) In this study, properties of the turbulent/nonturbulent interface (TNTI) between two layers of stratified fluids through direct numerical simulations (DNSs) have......
The COMPLETE Project is proud to announce that one of its Early Stage Researchers (ESRs12) Paredes Quintanilla, Miryam Elizabeth has reached a significant milestone in her academic journey. On September 1, 2021, she successfully defended her PhD, earning her doctorate in Electrical, Electronics, and Communications......
Testing a set of two Radioprobes in INRIM (Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica, Andrea Merlone, Chiara Musacchio, Coppa Graziano) by Complete group (Shahbozbek Abdunabiev, Mina Golshan, Daniela Tordella, Andrea Caporali) in comparison with a weather permanent station containing a Vaisala probe located in the INRIM......
The COMPLETE mini green radio probe without balloon was launched across the atmosphere up to 30 km of altitude attached to Vaisala RS41 probe. The aim was the comparison between the Temperature Humidity and Pressure sensors mounted in the radio probe prototype and its GPS position and......
The Philofluid research group, a collaborative effort between the Politecnico di Torino (POLITO), ENVISENS, and INRIM, was held during their first field experiment with the prototype of the Mini Green Radio Probe. The Mini Green Radio Probe is scheduled to take place in Parco Gustavo......
The master thesis on the subject of the DNS analysis of warm cloud microphysics and related mixing dynamics at the cloud-clear air interface has been finalized by Davide Codoni.A simplified cloud-clear air interface is studied through a direct numerical simulation on a grid of 512......
The collision of water droplets in a turbulent cloud-clear air environment has been investigated in the master thesis by Mattia Tomatis. In this work, they emphasize the numerical measurements of collision kernels in homogeneous, isotropic, cloud turbulent environments but also in very anisotropic environments......
The paper is about quantifying the amount of turbulence in the atmosphere. Turbulence contributes to many atmospheric phenomena, including atmospheric convection and clouds. Several methods have been proposed in the literature but they give over or under-estimated results especially when the atmosphere is inhomogeneous. The......
ENVISENS and Politecnico groups, especially our ESRs 12 and 15, Miryam Paredes and Shahbozbek Abduabiev, together with their supervisors Prof. Perona and Prof. Tordella, were finally able to carry out an experiment that was planned for a very long time. We should also acknowledge the......
The scientific community celebrates the remarkable achievement of Emmanuel O. Akinlabi, ESR10 of the COMPLETE Project, who successfully finalized his PhD at the Institute of Geophysics, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, in July 2020. Under the expert guidance of Professor Dr. Szymon P. Malinowski......
ESR12, Miryam Paredes and ESR13, Mina Golshan, together with partners from Regione Piemonte and Prof. Tordella, visited Arpa Piemonte, Agenzia Regionale per la Protezione Ambientale. They discusses their secondment and future collaborations. Arpa Piemonte carries out measurements with radiosondes, in 30 km of altitude and......
Last week, our ESR12, Miryam Paredes and Mina Golshan participated in a poster session at Politecnico di Torino, organised by OSA Student Chapter Torino as part of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science #ThinkBeyondPink. She presented her work on the development of ultra-light radio probes......
The 4th Workshop and Training School on Data and Model Integration in Fluid Mechanics was held at Imperial College London from 16th to 19th December 2019, where all our ESRs presented their research work and attended classes dedicated to the field of fluid mechanics. It......
The ETC17 conference (17th European Turbulent Conference) was organized at Politecnico di Torino in collaboration with Università di Torino and was held from 3rd to 6th September 2019. The chairs of ETC17 were Prof. Daniela Tordella, Coordinator of MSCA ITN – ETN COMPLETE, and Guido Boffetta......
The COMPLETE summer school on Small-Scale Turbulence in Clouds was hosted by Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization in Göttingen. MPIDS is engaged in a variety of dynamical and in particular self-organizational phenomena: from vortices in turbulent flows, and neural networks in the brain,......
Have you heard about ICTP Physics Without Frontiers? It’s a program working to inspire, train & motivate physics & maths students worldwide, and to help build the next generation of scientists.Recently Emmanuel Akinlabi, our Early Stage Researcher (ESR10) at Instytut Geofizyki – Wydział Fizyki UW, acted as a tutor......
The 3rd Workshop/Training School organised withing the COMPLETE project was held in the Institute of Geophysics, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Poland from 4th to 8th February 2019. All the ESRs of the COMPLETE project will follow lessons by Prof. Robert Breidenthal on fluids......
The 3rd Workshop/Training School organised withing the COMPLETE project is held in the Institute of Geophysics, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Poland from 4th to 8th February 2019. All the ESRs of the COMPLETE project will follow lessons by Prof. Robert Breidenthal on fluids......
One of our ESRs, Taraprasad Bhowmick and his mentor, Prof. Daniela Tordella, attended the EFMC12 conference held in Vienna, Austria from 9th to 13th September 2018. ESR1, Taraprasad Bhowmick, presented his recent research on Transient evolution of warm cloud – clear air interface and its impact on......
As part of the COMPLETE Innovative Training Network programme, our Early Stage Researchers visit cooperating institutions to interact with other researchers and widen their experience. This month, Tai Wada (Turbulence, Mixing, and Flow Control Group, Imperial College London) is visiting Instytut Geofizyki – Wydzial Fizyki......
COMPLETE Summer School on Microphysics and Dynamics of Clouds took place in Umweltforschungsstation Schneefernerhaus from the 9th to 14th of July 2018. COMPLETE ESRs and other participants had a chance to learn about the inner workings of the clouds and improve their research cooperation. ESRs did some experiments......
The 2nd Annual Meeting and 1st Spring School took place in Paris, at Laboratorie de Meteorologie Dynamque, Ecole Normale Superieure, from 28th May to 1st June 2018. Our French partners at the LMD did a great job at organizing the Spring School, as it had a very......
A couple more photos from the European Geosciences Union – EGU General Assembly, where some of our ESRs presented their work....
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