The research activity is mainly in the
field of hydrodynamic turbulence. One main stream of activity is devoted to
the LES modeling of Newtonian turbulence, while a second one deals
with turbulence in dilute polymer solutions. From
the point of view of the simulation the technique is high fidelity
computational methods using pseudo-spectral approaches both for
Direct Numerical Simulations and LES simulations.
I have investigated wall turbulence, homogeneous and isotropic turbulence, turbulent convection, flow around bluff bodies and recently turbulent/non-turbulent interfaces. The tools used
for the investigation might vary. The favorite one is the scale by
scale budget of turbulent kinetic energy for non homogeneous flows
which has been extended both to LES modeling and to viscoelastic
flows.
