Pressure distribution in a regular reflection (top) and Mach reflection (bottom) of an oblique shock in hypersonic conditions (for details see Grasso and Paoli, Physics of Fluids, 2000).

Iso-surface of vorticity and passive scalar contours in a Large-Eddy Simulation of a jet-wake vortex interaction (for details see Paoli et al., Physics of Fluids, 2003).

Iso-surface of vortictiy and scatter plot of ice crystals (white dots) and soot particles (black dots) in an aircraft contrail (for details see Paoli, Hélie, and Poinsot, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2004).
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Plane-cut of a rod of fluid particles showing the number density flow-field reconstucted from a Lagrangain simulation (left) and computed using a Semi-Lagrangian method (for details see Paoli, Poinsot, and Shariff, CTR Summer Program, 2006).

Snapshot of vorticity in a Direct Numerical Simulation of a 128³ isotropic and homogeneous cloud turbulence forced by a large-scale stochastic forcing (for details see Paoli and Shariff, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 2009).

Iso-surface of ice density colored with ice crystals radius in a far-field contrail (for details see Paugam, Paoli, and Cariolle, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2010).
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Contour of ice supersaturation at t=35 minutes showing the spreading of the contrail induced by atmospheric turbulent fluctuations (for details see Paugam, Paoli, and Cariolle, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2010).
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