Luca Biferale教授现任意大利罗马大学物理系全职教授,是世界知名的湍流研究专家。Biferale教授于1993年于罗马大学获得博士学位,1995年至2004年任罗马大学物理学院研究员,2005年至2014年任罗马大学物理系副教授,2014年至今任罗马大学全职教授。Biferale教授于2008年当选美国物理学会会士,2010年当选欧洲力学学会会士,并于2013年获欧洲研究协会高等研究计划项目支持。2007年至2013年任《Physical Review Letters》副编辑。至今已发表学术论文220余篇。
Turbulence is everywhere on the earth as it is in the sky. I will present a guided tour across some of the most important open questions concerning the role played by turbulence in modern fluid dynamics. I will address fundamental theoretical questions connected to the existence of -infinitely many- anomalous scaling exponents and applied ones, related to the formation of coherent energy-containing structures in atmospheric flows. The aim is to highlight what we do not know and what are the main mathematical, phenomenological, numerical and experimental obstacles that still make turbulence an ‘unsolved’ problem of paradigmatic importance in, e.g., out-of-equilibrium statistical mechanics, mechanical engineer and atmospheric physics.