Dario Vincenzi

CNRS UMR 7351 – Laboratoire Jean Alexandre Dieudonné
Université Côte d'Azur
Parc Valrose
06108 Nice cedex 02
France, EU

Tel. +33 (0)4 89 15 05 26
Fax +33 (0)4 93 51 79 74
E-mail: dario (dot) vincenzi (at) univ-cotedazur (dot) fr

Curriculum Vitæ

2019–2024   Associate, International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS–TIFR), Bangalore, India
2017–2023   Deputy Director, Fédération de Recherche Wolfgang Doeblin, Nice, France
2007–           CNRS, LJAD, Université Côte d'Azur, Nice, France
2006–2007   Postdoc, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany
2005–2006   Postdoc, Laboratory for Atomic and Solid State Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
2000–2003   PhD, Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Nice, France

Research Interests

• Stochastic models of turbulent transport
• Lagrangian dynamics in turbulent flows: tracers, polymers, droplets, anisotropic particles, elastic filaments
• Elastic turbulence in polymer solutions
• Turbulent dynamo effect
• 3D Navier–Stokes equations
• Covariance matrix estimation

Publications

Articles

• “Estimates for the 2D Navier–Stokes equations: the effects of forcing”
  R. Mukherjee, J.D. Gibbon & D. Vincenzi, arXiv:2512.15188


• “Stretching and breaking of particles in compressible random flows”
  D. Roy, M. Martins Afonso, J.R. Picardo & D. Vincenzi, arXiv:2512.08632


• “How hydrodynamic interactions alter polymer stretching in turbulence”
  A. Ganesh, D. Vincenzi, R. Prabhakar & J.R. Picardo, arxiv:2509.05349


• “An upper critical dimension for dynamo action: A d-dimensional closure model study”
  S.D. Murugan, G. Krstulovic, D. Vincenzi & S.S. Ray, arxiv:2408.01266


• “Turbulent stretching of dumbbells with hydrodynamic interactions: an analytical study”
  J.R. Picardo & D. Vincenzi, Phys. Rev. Fluids, 10, 093303 (2025)


• “Dynamics of vorticity moments in shell models of turbulence: A comparison with the Navier–Stokes equations”
  J.D. Gibbon & D. Vincenzi, Proc. R. Soc. A 481, 20240622 (2025)


• “Interface-induced turbulence in viscous binary fluid mixtures”
  N.B. Padhan, D. Vincenzi & R. Pandit, Phys. Rev. Fluids 9, L122401 (2024)


• “Preserving large-scale features in simulations of elastic turbulence”
  S.R. Yerasi, J.R. Picardo, A. Gupta & D. Vincenzi, J. Fluid Mech. 1000, A37 (2024)


• “Turbulent cascade arrests and the formation of intermediate-scale condensates ”
  K.V. Kiran, D. Vincenzi & R. Pandit, Phys. Rev. E 110, L043101 (2024)


• “Polymers in turbulence: stretching statistics and the role of extreme strain-rate fluctuations”
  J.R. Picardo, E.L.C. VI M. Plan & D. Vincenzi, J. Fluid Mech. 969, A24 (2023)


• “Polymer stretching in laminar and random flows: Entropic characterization”
  S. Musacchio, V. Steinberg & D. Vincenzi, Phys. Rev. Fluids 8, 053301 (2023)


• “How to extract a spectrum from hydrodynamic equations”
  J.D. Gibbon & D. Vincenzi, J. Nonlin. Sci. 32, 87 (2022)


• “Spirographic motion in a vortex”
  S.R. Yerasi, R. Govindarajan & D. Vincenzi, Phys. Rev. Fluids 7, 074402 (2022)


• “Editorial: Scaling the turbulence edifice (part 1)”
  J. Bec, G. Krstulovic, T. Matsumoto, S.S. Ray & D. Vincenzi, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 380, 20210101 (2022)


• “Editorial: Scaling the turbulence edifice (part 2)”
  J. Bec, G. Krstulovic, T. Matsumoto, S.S. Ray & D. Vincenzi, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 380, 20210102 (2022)


• “How close are shell models to the 3D Navier–Stokes equations?”
  D. Vincenzi & J.D. Gibbon, Nonlinearity 34, 5821–5843 (2021)


• “Effect of internal friction on the coil–stretch transition in turbulent flows”
  D. Vincenzi, Soft Matter 17, 2421–2428 (2021)


• “Polymer scission in turbulent flows”
  D. Vincenzi, T. Watanabe, S.S. Ray & J.R. Picardo, J. Fluid Mech. 912, A18 (2021)


• “Dynamics of a long chain in turbulent flows: Impact of vortices”
  J.R. Picardo, R. Singh, S.S. Ray & D. Vincenzi, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 378, 20190405 (2020)


• “Elasto-inertial chains in a two-dimensional turbulent flow”
  R. Singh, M. Gupta, J.R. Picardo, D. Vincenzi & S.S. Ray, Phys. Rev. E 101, 053105 (2020)


• “Effect of polymer-stress diffusion in the numerical simulation of elastic turbulence”
  A. Gupta & D. Vincenzi, J. Fluid Mech. 870, 405–418 (2019)


• “Kazantsev dynamo in turbulent compressible flows”
  M. Martins Afonso, D. Mitra & D. Vincenzi, Proc. R. Soc. A 475, 20180591 (2019)


• “Preferential sampling of elastic chains in turbulent flows”
  J.R. Picardo, D. Vincenzi, N. Pal & S.S. Ray, Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 244501 (2018)


• “Droplets in isotropic turbulence: deformation and breakup statistics”
  S.S. Ray & D. Vincenzi, J. Fluid Mech. 852, 313–328 (2018)


• “Enhancement of mixing by rodlike polymers”
  S. Musacchio, M. Cencini, E.L.C. VI M. Plan & D. Vincenzi, Eur. Phys. J. E 41, 84 (2018)


• “Emergence of chaos in a viscous solution of rods”
  E.L.C. VI M. Plan, S. Musacchio & D. Vincenzi, Phys. Rev. E 96, 053108 (2017)


• “An overview of the statistical properties of two-dimensional turbulence in fluids with particles,
  conducting fluids, fluids with polymer additives, binary-fluid mixtures, and superfluids”
  R. Pandit, D. Banerjee, A. Bhatnagar, M.-E. Brachet, A. Gupta, D. Mitra, N. Pal, P. Perlekar, S.S. Ray,
  V. Shukla & D. Vincenzi, Phys. Fluids 29, 111112 (2017)


• “Lyapunov dimension of elastic turbulence”
  E.L.C. VI M. Plan, A. Gupta, D. Vincenzi & J.D. Gibbon, J. Fluid Mech. 822, R4 (2017)


• “Mixed convection of a conducting third-grade fluid past an oscillating porous plate”
  A. Ali, S. Asghar & D. Vincenzi, J. Eng. Thermophys. 26, 60–68 (2017)


• “Semi-flexible particles in isotropic turbulence”
  A. Ali, E.L.C. VI M. Plan, S.S. Ray & D. Vincenzi, Phys. Rev. Fluids 1, 082402(R) (2016)


• “The role of the isotonizing algorithm in Stein's covariance estimator”
  B. Naul, B. Rajaratnam & D. Vincenzi, Comput. Stat. 31, 1453–1476 (2016)


• Tumbling of a Brownian particle in an extensional flow
  E.L.C. VI M. Plan & D. Vincenzi, Proc. R. Soc. A 472, 20160226 (2016)


• A theoretical study of Stein's covariance estimator
  B. Rajaratnam & D. Vincenzi, Biometrika 103, 653–666 (2016)


• Bead-rod-spring models in random flows
  E.L.C. VI M. Plan, A. Ali & D. Vincenzi, Phys. Rev. E 94, 020501(R) (2016)


• Elastic turbulence in a shell model of polymer solution
  S.S. Ray & D. Vincenzi, Europhys. Lett. 114, 44001 (2016)


• Polymer stretching in the inertial range of turbulence
  A. Ahmad & D. Vincenzi, Phys. Rev. E 93, 052605 (2016)


• A note on covariance estimation in the unbiased estimator of risk framework
  B. Rajaratnam & D. Vincenzi, J. Stat. Plan. Inference 175, 25–39 (2016)


• Impact of the Peterlin approximation on polymer dynamics in turbulent flows
  D. Vincenzi, P. Perlekar, L. Biferale & F. Toschi, Phys. Rev. E 92, 053004 (2015)


• Weak–strong clustering transition in renewing compressible flows
  A. Dhanagare, S. Musacchio & D. Vincenzi, J. Fluid Mech. 761, 431–442 (2014)


• Regimes of nonlinear depletion and regularity in the 3D Navier–Stokes equations
  J.D. Gibbon, D. Donzis, A. Gupta, R.M. Kerr, R. Pandit & D. Vincenzi, Nonlinearity 27, 2605–2625 (2014)


• Noise prevents collapse of Vlasov–Poisson point charges
  F. Delarue, F. Flandoli & D. Vincenzi, Commun. Pure Appl. Math. 67, 1700–1736 (2014)


• Elliptical tracers in two-dimensional, homogeneous, isotropic fluid turbulence: the statistics of alignment, rotation, and nematic order
  A. Gupta, D. Vincenzi & R. Pandit, Phys. Rev. E 89, 021001(R) (2014)


• Vorticity moments in four numerical simulations of the 3D Navier–Stokes equations
  D. Donzis, J.D. Gibbon, A. Gupta, R.M. Kerr, R. Pandit & D. Vincenzi, J. Fluid Mech. 732, 316–331 (2013)


• Orientation of non-spherical particles in an axisymmetric random flow
  D. Vincenzi, J. Fluid Mech. 719, 465–487 (2013)


• Deformation of a flexible polymer in a random flow with long correlation time
  S. Musacchio & D. Vincenzi, J. Fluid Mech. 670, 326–336 (2011)


• Turbulence in more than two and less than three dimensions
  A. Celani, S. Musacchio & D. Vincenzi, Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 184506 (2010)


• Dispersion and collapse in stochastic velocity fields on a cylinder
  A. Celani, S. Rubenthaler & D. Vincenzi, J. Stat. Phys. 138, 579–597 (2010)


• Acceleration correlations and pressure structure functions in high Reynolds number turbulence
  H. Xu, N. Ouellette, D. Vincenzi & E. Bodenschatz, Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 204501 (2007)


• Stretching of polymers in isotropic turbulence: A statistical closure
  D. Vincenzi, S. Jin, E. Bodenschatz & L. R. Collins, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 024503 (2007)


• Dynamical slowdown of polymers in laminar and random flows
  A. Celani, A. Puliafito & D. Vincenzi, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 118301 (2006)


• Single polymer dynamics in elongational flow and the confluent Heun equation
  D. Vincenzi & E. Bodenschatz, J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 39,10691–10701 (2006)


• Magnetic field transport and kinematic dynamo effect: a Lagrangian interpretation
  A. Celani, A. Mazzino & D. Vincenzi, Proc. R. Soc. A 462, 136–147 (2006)


• Nonlinear elastic polymers in random flow
  M. Martins Afonso & D. Vincenzi, J. Fluid Mech. 540, 99–108 (2005)


• Polymer transport in random flow
  A. Celani, S. Musacchio & D. Vincenzi, J. Stat. Phys. 118, 531–554 (2005)


• Shear effects on passive scalar spectra
  A. Celani, M. Cencini, M. Vergassola, E. Villermaux & D. Vincenzi, J. Fluid Mech. 523, 99–108 (2005)


• Lorenz deterministic diffusion
  R. Festa, A. Mazzino & D. Vincenzi, Europhys. Lett. 60, 820–826 (2002)


• Intermittency in passive scalar decay
  A. Celani & D. Vincenzi, Physica D 172, 103–110 (2002)


• Lorenz-like systems and classical dynamical equations with memory forcing: An alternate point of view for singling out the origin of chaos
  R. Festa, A. Mazzino & D. Vincenzi, Phys. Rev. E 65, 046205 (2002)


• The Kraichnan–Kazantsev Dynamo
  D. Vincenzi, J. Stat. Phys. 106, 1073-1091 (2002)


• An analytical approach to chaos in Lorenz-like systems. A class of dynamical equations
  R. Festa, A. Mazzino & D. Vincenzi, Europhys. Lett. 56, 47–53 (2001)

Conference Proceedings

Influence of a mean shear on the spectrum of passive scalar fluctuations
A. Celani, M. Cencini, M. Vergassola, E. Villermaux & D. Vincenzi, Proc. Appl. Math. Mech. 7, 1101301–1101302 (2007)

Stochastic closures for homogeneous shear flow turbulence of dilute polymer solutions
D. Vincenzi, S. Jin, T. Vaithianathan, L. R. Collins & E. Bodenschatz
Progress in Turbulence 2, M. Oberlack, S. Guenther, T. Weller, G. Khujadze, A. Osman, M. Frewer, J. Peinke (Eds.), Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol. 109 (2007)

Single polymer dynamics in random flow
A. Celani, S. Musacchio & D. Vincenzi
Proc. Int. Conf. "Frontiers of Nonlinear Physics" (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, 5–12 July, 2004), pp. 264–268

HDR

"Dynamique lagrangienne en turbulence et turbulence élastique"
14/12/2018, Université Côte d'Azur, Nice, France

PhD Thesis

"Diffusion, étirement et intermittence dans le transport turbulent"
Supervisors: M. Vergassola and A. Celani
11/12/2003, Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Nice, France

EUROMECH Colloquium Complex particles in turbulent flow (Nice, 03–05 May 2023)