All Stories

  1. An Insight into Blood Flow and Wall Shear Stress in Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms Coupling Laboratory and CFD Simulations

    Article • Fluids, August 2025, MDPI AG

    Stefania Espa

  2. Reproducing Large-Scale (and Not Only) Features in Rotating Turbulent Flows: A Laboratory Study

    Article • January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Stefania Espa

  3. Numerical and experimental analysis of Lagrangian dispersion in two-dimensional chaotic flows

    Article • Scientific Reports, May 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Stefania Espa

  4. Revealing the Intensity of Turbulent Energy Transfer in Planetary Atmospheres

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, December 2020, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Stefania Espa

  5. Eddy–wave duality in a rotating flow

    Article • Physics of Fluids, July 2020, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Boris Galperin, Stefania Espa

  6. In-Vitro Simulation of the Blood Flow in an Axisymmetric Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm

    Article • Applied Sciences, October 2019, MDPI AG

    Stefania Espa

  7. Turbulence, Diffusion and Mixing Barriers in Flows with Zonal Jets

    Article • February 2019, Cambridge University Press

    Stefania Espa

  8. Zonal Jets in the Laboratory: Experiments with Electromagnetically Forced Flows

    Article • February 2019, Cambridge University Press

    Stefania Espa

  9. Anisotropic Dispersion in Rotating Fluids: a Laboratory Model of Large Scale Flows

    Article • October 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Stefania Espa

  10. Decaying grid turbulence experiments in a stratified fluid: flow measurements and statistics

    Article • Stochastic Hydrology and Hydraulics, May 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Stefania Espa

  11. Integrated strategy for in vitro characterization of a bileaflet mechanical aortic valve

    Article • BioMedical Engineering OnLine, February 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Stefania Espa

  12. Anisotropic macroturbulence and diffusion associated with a westward zonal jet: From laboratory to planetary atmospheres and oceans

    Article • December 2016, American Physical Society (APS)

    Stefania Espa

  13. A laboratory model of the aortic root flow including the coronary arteries

    Article • Experiments in Fluids, August 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Stefania Espa

  14. TURBOGEN: Computer-controlled vertically oscillating grid system for small-scale turbulence studies on plankton

    Article • Review of Scientific Instruments, March 2016, American Institute of Physics

    Stefania Espa

  15. Turbulence investigation in a laboratory model of the ascending aorta

    Article • Journal of Turbulence, January 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Stefania Espa

  16. 3D Finite Time Lyapunov Exponents in a left ventricle laboratory model

    Article • EPJ Web of Conferences, January 2015, EDP Sciences

    Stefania Espa

  17. Anisotropic turbulence and Rossby waves in an easterly jet: An experimental study

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, September 2014, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Boris Galperin, Stefania Espa

  18. Fluid dynamics of aortic root dilation in Marfan syndrome

    Article • Journal of Biomechanics, September 2014, Elsevier

    Stefania Espa

  19. Anisotropic Lagrangian Dispersion in Rotating Flows with a β Effect

    Article • Journal of Physical Oceanography, February 2014, American Meteorological Society

    Stefania Espa

  20. Three-dimensional structure of the flow inside the left ventricle of the human heart

    Article • Experiments in Fluids, October 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Stefania Espa

  21. Flow field evolution in a laboratory model of the left ventricle

    Article • Journal of Visualization, August 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Stefania Espa

  22. Simulating zonation in geophysical flows by laboratory experiments

    Article • Physics of Fluids, August 2013, American Institute of Physics

    Stefania Espa

  23. Zonal jets and cyclone–anticyclone asymmetry in decaying rotating turbulence: laboratory experiments and numerical simulations

    Article • Geophysical & Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics, December 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Stefania Espa

  24. Experimental study of an asymmetric heart valve prototype

    Article • European Journal of Mechanics - B/Fluids, September 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Gianni Pedrizzetti, Stefania Espa

  25. A Lagrangian investigation of the flow inside the left ventricle

    Article • European Journal of Mechanics - B/Fluids, September 2012, Elsevier

    Stefania Espa

  26. On the influence of a β‐effect on Lagrangian diffusion

    Article • Geophysical Research Letters, June 2012, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Stefania Espa

  27. Laboratory study of forced rotating shallow water turbulence

    Article • Journal of Physics Conference Series, December 2011, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Stefania Espa

  28. The emergence of zonal jets in forced rotating shallow water turbulence: A laboratory study

    Article • EPL (Europhysics Letters), November 2010, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Stefania Espa

  29. Study of the environmental effects of submarine CO<SUB>2</SUB>-rich emissions by means of scientific diving techniques (Panarea Island – Italy)

    Article • Underwater Technology The International Journal of the Society for Underwater, July 2010, Society for Underwater Technology

    Stefania Espa

  30. Field study and laboratory experiments of bubble plumes in shallow seas as analogues of sub-seabed CO2 leakages

    Article • Applied Geochemistry, May 2010, Elsevier

    Stefania Espa

  31. Quasi-two-dimensional flow on the polar β-plane: Laboratory experiments

    Article • Journal of Marine Systems, June 2009, Elsevier

    Stefania Espa

  32. Quasi-two-dimensional decaying turbulence subject to the β effect

    Article • Journal of Turbulence, January 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Stefania Espa

  33. Anomalous diffusion and lévy flights in a two-dimensional time periodic flow

    Article • Journal of Visualization, September 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Stefania Espa

  34. Effects of friction on 2D turbulence: An experimental study of the direct cascade

    Article • EPL (Europhysics Letters), August 2005, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Stefania Espa

  35. Dispersion of passive tracers in a confined convective flow

    Article • European Journal of Mechanics - B/Fluids, July 2001, Elsevier

    Stefania Espa

  36. Chaotic advection and relative dispersion in an experimental convective flow

    Article • Physics of Fluids, December 2000, American Institute of Physics

    Stefania Espa

  37. Experimental evidence of chaotic advection in a convective flow

    Article • EPL (Europhysics Letters), December 1999, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Stefania Espa

  38. Laboratory model of two-dimensional polar beta-plane turbulence

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Stefania Espa

  39. Two Dimensional Polar Beta Plane Turbulence

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Stefania Espa