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  1. Experimental investigation of turbulent suspensions of spherical particles in a square duct

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, October 2018, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Luca Brandt

  2. The lift-up effect: The linear mechanism behind transition and turbulence in shear flows

    Article • European Journal of Mechanics - B/Fluids, September 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Luca Brandt

  3. The planar X-junction flow: stability analysis and control – CORRIGENDUM

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, July 2014, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Luca Brandt, Dr Outi Tammisola

  4. The planar X-junction flow: stability analysis and control

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, July 2014, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Luca Brandt, Dr Outi Tammisola

  5. Rotational propulsion enabled by inertia

    Article • The European Physical Journal E, July 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Luca Brandt

  6. Corrections for one- and two-point statistics measured with coarse-resolution particle image velocimetry

    Article • Experiments in Fluids, May 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr antonio segalini, Professor Luca Brandt

  7. Analysis of Fluid Systems: Stability, Receptivity, SensitivityLecture notes from the FLOW-NORDITA Summer School on Advanced Instability Methods for Complex Flows, Stockholm, Sweden, 2013

    Article • Applied Mechanics Reviews, March 2014, ASME International

    Professor Luca Brandt

  8. A microfluidic device to sort capsules by deformability: a numerical study

    Article • Soft Matter, January 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Lailai Zhu, Professor Luca Brandt

  9. Accumulation of motile elongated micro-organisms in turbulence

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, December 2013, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Luca Brandt

  10. Linear stability analysis of channel flow of viscoelastic Oldroyd-B and FENE-P fluids

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, November 2013, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Luca Brandt

  11. Linear stability of particle laden flows: the influence of added mass, fluid acceleration and Basset history force

    Article • Meccanica, November 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Luca Brandt

  12. Active suspensions in thin films: nutrient uptake and swimmer motion

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, September 2013, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Luca Brandt

  13. Turbophoresis attenuation in a turbulent channel flow with polymer additives

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, September 2013, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Luca Brandt

  14. Shear Thickening in Non-Brownian Suspensions: An Excluded Volume Effect

    Article • Physical Review Letters, August 2013, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Luca Brandt

  15. Transition delay in a boundary layer flow using active control

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, August 2013, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Luca Brandt

  16. Minimal transition thresholds in plane Couette flow

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

    Professor Luca Brandt

  17. Three-dimensional instability of the flow around a rotating circular cylinder

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, July 2013, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Jan Oscar Pralits, Professor Luca Brandt

  18. Optimal disturbances above and upstream of a flat plate with an elliptic-type leading edge

    Article • Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics, July 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Luca Brandt

  19. Numerical study of laminar-turbulent transition in particle-laden channel flow

    Article • Physical Review E, April 2013, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Luca Brandt

  20. Statistics of polymer extensions in turbulent channel flow

    Article • Physical Review E, November 2012, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Luca Brandt

  21. Identifying Turbulent Spots in Transitional Boundary Layers

    Article • Journal of Turbomachinery, October 2012, ASME International

    Professor Luca Brandt

  22. Micropropulsion and microrheology in complex fluids via symmetry breaking

    Article • Physics of Fluids, October 2012, American Institute of Physics

    Lailai Zhu, Professor Luca Brandt

  23. Swept wing boundary-layer receptivity to localized surface roughness

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, September 2012, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Luca Brandt

  24. Spatial linear disturbances in a plane wall jet

    Article • Physics of Fluids, May 2012, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Luca Brandt

  25. Self-propulsion in viscoelastic fluids: Pushers vs. pullers

    Article • Physics of Fluids, May 2012, American Institute of Physics

    Lailai Zhu, Professor Luca Brandt

  26. First instability of the flow of shear-thinning and shear-thickening fluids past a circular cylinder

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, April 2012, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Jan Oscar Pralits, Professor Luca Brandt

  27. Stability of fluids with shear-dependent viscosity in the lid-driven cavity

    Article • Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, April 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Luca Brandt

  28. Nonlinear receptivity to oblique vortical modes in flow past an elliptic leading edge

    Article • Journal of Turbulence, January 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Luca Brandt

  29. Identifying an Artificial Turbulent Spot in the Boundary Layer

    Article • January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Luca Brandt

  30. Transport of inertial particles in turbulent boundary layers

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

    Professor Luca Brandt

  31. Effect of base-flow variation in noise amplifiers: the flat-plate boundary layer

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, October 2011, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Jan Oscar Pralits, Professor Luca Brandt

  32. Receptivity, instability and breakdown of Görtler flow

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, July 2011, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Luca Brandt

  33. Secondary threshold amplitudes for sinuous streak breakdown

    Article • Physics of Fluids, July 2011, American Institute of Physics

    Carlo COSSU, Professor Luca Brandt

  34. Numerical study of boundary-layer receptivity on a swept wing

    Article • June 2011, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Luca Brandt

  35. Modal and non-modal stability of particle-laden channel flow

    Article • Physics of Fluids, June 2011, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Luca Brandt

  36. Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics and the Optimal Path to Turbulence in Shear Flows

    Article • Physical Review Letters, March 2011, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Luca Brandt

  37. Feedback control of three-dimensional optimal disturbances using reduced-order models

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, March 2011, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Luca Brandt

  38. Large Scale Accumulation Patterns of Inertial Particles in Wall-Bounded Turbulent Flow

    Article • Flow Turbulence and Combustion, January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Luca Brandt

  39. Drag Reduction on External Surfaces Induced by Wall Waves

    Article • January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Luca Brandt

  40. Entropy Generation in a Boundary Layer Transitioning Under the Influence of Freestream Turbulence

    Article • Journal of Fluids Engineering, January 2011, ASME International

    Professor Luca Brandt

  41. Locomotion by tangential deformation in a polymeric fluid

    Article • Physical Review E, January 2011, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Luca Brandt

  42. Identifying Turbulent Spots in Transitional Boundary Layers

    Article • January 2011, ASME International

    Professor Luca Brandt

  43. Numerical study of the stabilisation of boundary-layer disturbances by finite amplitude streaks

    Article • International Journal of Flow Control, December 2010, Multi-Science Publishing Co. Ltd.

    Professor Luca Brandt, Dr Enrico Deusebio

  44. Towards minimal perturbations in transitional plane Couette flow

    Article • Physical Review E, August 2010, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Luca Brandt

  45. Feedback Control of Boundary-Layer Bypass Transition: Comparison of Simulations with Experiments

    Article • AIAA Journal, August 2010, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Luca Brandt

  46. Instability and sensitivity of the flow around a rotating circular cylinder

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, March 2010, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Jan Oscar Pralits, Professor Luca Brandt

  47. Global three-dimensional optimal disturbances in the Blasius boundary-layer flow using time-steppers

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, March 2010, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Luca Brandt

  48. Transition to turbulence in the boundary layer over a smooth and rough swept plate exposed to free-stream turbulence

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, March 2010, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Luca Brandt

  49. DNS of Spatially-Developing Three-Dimensional Turbulent Boundary Layers

    Article • January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Luca Brandt

  50. Model Reduction of the Nonlinear Complex Ginzburg–Landau Equation

    Article • SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems, January 2010, Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM)

    Professor Luca Brandt

  51. Direct Numerical Simulation of a Turbulent Boundary Layer with Passive Scalar Transport

    Article • January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Luca Brandt

  52. Interaction of noise disturbances and streamwise streaks

    Article • November 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Luca Brandt, Dr Enrico Deusebio

  53. Optimal disturbances with iterative methods

    Article • November 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Luca Brandt

  54. Flow past a plate with elliptic leading edge: layer response to free-stream vorticity

    Article • November 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Luca Brandt

  55. Linear control of 3D disturbances on a flat-plate

    Article • November 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Luca Brandt

  56. Entropy generation rate in turbulent spots in a boundary layer subject to freestream turbulence

    Article • November 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Luca Brandt

  57. DNS of a spatially developing turbulent boundary layer with passive scalar transport

    Article • International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, October 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Luca Brandt

  58. Matrix-Free Methods for the Stability and Control of Boundary Layers

    Article • AIAA Journal, May 2009, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Luca Brandt

  59. Input–output analysis, model reduction and control of the flat-plate boundary layer

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, February 2009, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Luca Brandt

  60. Receptivity mechanisms in three-dimensional boundary-layer flows

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, January 2009, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Luca Brandt

  61. Feedback Control of Boundary Layer Bypass Transition: Experimental and Numerical Progress

    Article • January 2009, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Luca Brandt

  62. Interaction of noise disturbances and streamwise streaks

    Article • January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Luca Brandt

  63. Nonlinear optimal perturbations in plane Couette flow

    Article • January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Luca Brandt

  64. On streak breakdown in bypass transition

    Article • Physics of Fluids, October 2008, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Luca Brandt

  65. DNS and LES of estimation and control of transition in boundary layers subject to free-stream turbulence

    Article • International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, June 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Luca Brandt

  66. Streak interactions and breakdown in boundary layer flows

    Article • Physics of Fluids, February 2008, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Luca Brandt

  67. Stochastic approach to the receptivity problem applied to bypass transition in boundary layers

    Article • Physics of Fluids, February 2008, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Luca Brandt

  68. Numerical studies of the instability and breakdown of a boundary-layer low-speed streak

    Article • European Journal of Mechanics - B/Fluids, January 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Luca Brandt

  69. Experimental Analysis of Transition Delay by Means of Roughness Elements

    Article • June 2006, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Luca Brandt

  70. Steady solutions of the Navier-Stokes equations by selective frequency damping

    Article • Physics of Fluids, June 2006, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Luca Brandt

  71. Delaying Transition to Turbulence by a Passive Mechanism

    Article • Physical Review Letters, February 2006, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Luca Brandt

  72. NUMERICAL STUDIES OF STREAK INSTABILITY IN BOUNDARY LAYERS

    Article • January 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Luca Brandt

  73. Transient growth on boundary layer streaks

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, August 2005, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Luca Brandt

  74. Experimental study of the stabilization of Tollmien–Schlichting waves by finite amplitude streaks

    Article • Physics of Fluids, May 2005, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Luca Brandt

  75. On Tollmien–Schlichting-like waves in streaky boundary layers

    Article • European Journal of Mechanics - B/Fluids, November 2004, Elsevier

    Professor Luca Brandt

  76. Transition in boundary layers subject to free-stream turbulence

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, October 2004, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Luca Brandt

  77. Experimental and theoretical investigation of the nonmodal growth of steady streaks in a flat plate boundary layer

    Article • Physics of Fluids, October 2004, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Luca Brandt

  78. Direct Numerical Simulations of Streak Breakdown in Boundary Layers

    Article • January 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Luca Brandt

  79. On the convectively unstable nature of optimal streaks in boundary layers

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, May 2003, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Luca Brandt

  80. Transition of streamwise streaks in zero-pressure-gradient boundary layers

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, November 2002, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Luca Brandt

  81. Stabilization of Tollmien–Schlichting waves by finite amplitude optimal streaks in the Blasius boundary layer

    Article • Physics of Fluids, August 2002, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Luca Brandt

  82. On the breakdown of boundary layer streaks

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, February 2001, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Luca Brandt

  83. Interactions between finite-length streaks and breakdown to turbulence

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Luca Brandt

  84. Receptivity to Roughness and Vortical Free-stream Modes

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Luca Brandt

  85. EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF THE STABILIZATION OF TOLLMIEN-SCHLICHTINGWAVES BY FINITE AMPLITUDE STREAKS

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Luca Brandt

  86. The effect of free-stream turbulence on growth and breakdown of Tollmien-Schlichting waves

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Luca Brandt

  87. The effect of the sweep angle on the turbulent separation bubble on a flate plate

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Luca Brandt