Publications by Massimo Sorella

Dissipation enhancing properties for a class of Hamiltonian flows with closed streamlines

Massimo Sorella, Carl Johan Peter Johansson, Michele Dolce

We study the evolution of a passive scalar subject to molecular diffusion and advected by an incompressible velocity field on a 2D bounded domain. The velocity field is u=del perpendicular to H, where H is an autonomous Hamiltonian whose level sets are Jor ...

TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC2025

Anomalous dissipation and other non-smooth phenomena in fluids

Massimo Sorella

The thesis is dedicated to the study of two main partial differential equations (PDEs) in fluid dynamics: the Navier-Stokes equations, which describe the motion of incompressible fluids, and the transport equation with divergence-free velocity fields, whic ...

EPFL2024

ALMOST EVERYWHERE NONUNIQUENESS OF INTEGRAL CURVES FOR DIVERGENCE-FREE SOBOLEV VECTOR FIELDS

Massimo Sorella

We construct divergence-free Sobolev vector fields in C([0,1];W-1,W-r(T-d;Rd)) with r < d and d\geq 2 which simultaneously admit any finite number of distinct positive solutions to the continuity equation. These vector fields are then shown to have at leas ...

Siam Publications2023

Anomalous Dissipation and Lack of Selection in the Obukhov-Corrsin Theory of Scalar Turbulence

Maria Colombo, Massimo Sorella

The Obukhov-Corrsin theory of scalar turbulence [21, 54] advances quantitative predictions on passive-scalar advection in a turbulent regime and can be regarded as the analogue for passive scalars of Kolmogorov's K41 theory of fully developed turbulence [4 ...

Springernature2023

Non-Uniqueness Of Integral Curves For Autonomous Hamiltonian Vector Fields

Massimo Sorella

In this work we prove the existence of an autonomous Hamiltonian vector field in W-1,W-r(T-d; R-d) with r < d - 1 and d >= 4 for which the associated transport equation has non-unique positive solutions. As a consequence of Ambrosio's superposition princip ...

KHAYYAM PUBL CO INC2022

Typicality results for weak solutions of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations

Maria Colombo, Massimo Sorella, Luigi De Rosa

In this work we show that, in the class of L-infinity((0,T); L-2(T-3)) distributional solutions of the incompressible Navier-Stokes system, the ones which are smooth in some open interval of times are meagre in the sense of Baire category, and the Leray on ...

EDP SCIENCES S A2022