Massimo Guerrero and Rui Aleixo informed us on August 26, 2025, that their paper: “Scaling Turbulent Wake Flow Downstream of Isolated Piers in Laboratory and River” was accepted for publication in the Journal Results in Engineering. They explored the results obtained in Gdansk and Bologna based on the Da Vinci experiments carried at the University of Bologna.
In this paper they described a comparison between the horseshoe vortices Leonardo sketched, and matching experiments reproducing that oscillating flow pattern. From that comparison they found out that Leonardo’s sketches implies he may have perceived oscillating patterns at roughly 100 Hertz.
Congratulations to our new colleagues!