Primavera Leonardo's publication list

Papers on international journals

1. Malara F., Primavera L., Veltri P., ``Formation of small scales via Alfven wave propagation in compressible nonuniform media'', Astrophys. Journal, 459, 347-364, 1996.

2. Malara F., Primavera L., Veltri P., ``Compressive fluctuations generated by time evolution of Alfvenic perturbations in the solar wind current sheet'', Journal of Geophysical Research, 101, 21597-21617, 1996.

3. Malara F., Primavera L., Veltri P., ``Dissipation of Alfven waves in compressible inhomogeneous media'', Nuovo Cimento C, 20C, 903-909, 1997.

4. Malara F., Veltri P., Primavera L., ``Nature of the Density- Magnetic Field Intensity Correlation Observed in the Solar Wind'', Physical Review E, 56, 3508-3514, 1997.

5. Primavera L., Rüdiger G., Elstner D., ``Balbus-Hawley instability in thin accretion disks'', Acta Astron. et Geophys. Univ. Comeniae, 19, 155-161, 1997.

6. Rüdiger G., Primavera L., Arlt R., Elstner D., ``Magnetic shear flow instability in thin accretion disks'', Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 306, 913-918, 1999.

7. Malara F., Primavera L., Veltri P., ``Effects of entropy inhomogeneity on density-temperature correlation in solar wind'', Physical Review E, 59, 6023-6031, 1999.

8. Malara F., Primavera L., Veltri P., ``Non linear evolution of parametric instability of a large amplitude nonmonochromatic Alfvén wave'', Physics of Plasmas, 7, 2866-2877, 2000.

9. Malara, F., Primavera, L., Veltri, P., ``Nonlinear evolution of the parametric instability: numerical predictions versus observations in the heliosphere'', Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, 8, 159-166, 2001.

10. Carbone, V., Lepreti, F., Primavera, L., Pietropaolo, E., Berrilli, F., Consolini, G., Alfonsi, G., Bavassano, B., Bruno, R., Vecchio, A., Veltri, P., ``An analysis of the vertical photospheric velocity field as observed by THEMIS'', Astronomy and Astrophysics, 381, 265-270, 2002.

11. Alfonsi G., Primavera L., ``Coherent structure dynamics in turbulent channel flow'', Journal of Flow Visualization & Image Processing, 9, 1-10, 2003.

12. Alfonsi, G., Restano, C., Primavera, L., Passoni, G., ``Coherent structures of the flow around a surface-mounted cubic obstacle in turbulent channel flow'', Journal of Wind Engeneering and Industrial Aerodynamics, 91, 495-511, 2003.

13. Alfonsi, G., Felisari, R., Passoni, G., Primavera, L., ``Proper orthogonal decomposition of the flow past a perforated plate'', submitted to Fluid Dynamics Research, 2001.

14. Alfonsi, G., Arosio, S., Rodi, P., Passoni, G., Primavera, L., ``A parallel computational code for the proper orthogonal decomposition of turbulent flows'', submitted to The Journal of Supercomputing, 2001.

15. Alfonsi, G., Primavera, L., ``Proper orthogonal decomposition of turbulent channel flow'', submitted to Fluid Dynamics Research, 2003.

Conference Proceedings

1. Veltri P., Malara F., Primavera L., ``Correlation, anisotropy and compressibility of low frequency fluctuations in solar wind'', Solar Wind Seven, COSPAR Colloquia Series Vol. 3, Pergamon Press, Oxford, 559-564, 1992.

2. Malara F., Primavera L., Veltri P., ``Coronal heating by Alfven waves dissipation in compressible nonuniform media'', Solar Wind Eight, AIP Conference Proceedings 382, 14-17, 1996.

3. Malara F., Primavera L., Veltri P., ``Propagation of large amplitude Alfven waves in the solar wind current sheet'', Solar Wind Eight, AIP Conference Proceedings 382, 323-326, 1996.

4. Primavera L., Rüdiger G., ``Magnetic shear instability for accretion tori of constant specific angular momentum'', Proceedings of 8th Annual Astrophysics Conference on Accretion Processes in Astrophysical Systems, edited by S. S. Holt, 65-68, 1998.

5. Veltri P., Malara F., Primavera L., ``Nonlinear Alfvén Wave Interaction with Large-Scale Heliospheric Current Sheet'', Nonlinear MHD Waves and Turbulence, Lecture Notes in Physics, Passot Th. e Sulem P. L. eds., Springer-Verlag, 536, 222-250, 1999.

6. Primavera L., Malara F., Veltri P., ``Numerical Simulations of the Parametric Instability in Solar Wind'', Proceedings of ``The 9thEuropean Meeting on Solar Physics, Magnetic Fields and Solar Processes'', ESA Publication Division, ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands, 1199-1204, 1999.

7. Alfonsi G., Primavera L., Passoni G., Restano C., ``Proper Orthogonal Decomposition of Turbulent Channel Flow'', ``Computational Fluid Dynamics 2000: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics, ICCFD, Kyoto, Japan, 10-14 July 2000, Satofuka N. (Ed.), Kyoto, Japan.

8. Malara F., Primavera L., Veltri P., ``Parametric instability of a broad-band Alfvèn wave: nonlinear evolution and saturation'', Proceedings of IAU Symposium No. 203: ``Recent Insights into the Physics of the Sun and Heliosphere: Highlights from SOHO and other Space Missions'', Manchester, 7-11 August 2000, P. Brekke, B. Fleck, J. B. Gurman Eds., The Astronomical Society of the Pacific, pp. 511-513, 2001.

9. Malara F., Primavera L., Veltri P., ``Parametric Instability of Broad-Band Alfvènic Fluctuations: Comparison with Solar Wind Observations'', Proceedings of the ``II Convegno sulla Ricerca Solare Italiana'', L'Aquila 3-5 Luglio 2000, in press, 2001.

10. Malara F., Primavera L., Veltri P., ``Parametric instability of Alfvènic fluctuations in high-latitude solar wind'', Proceedings of the ``SOLSPA 2001 Euroconference Solar Cycle and Space Weather'', Vico Equense, Italy, 24-29 Settembre 2001, European Space Agency: Noordwijk, The Netherlands, 309-312, 2002.

11. Primavera, L., Malara, F., Veltri, P., ``Parametric instability in the solar wind: numerical study of the nonlinear evolution'', submitted to Proceedings of the conference Solar Wind X, Bruno, R., Velli, M., Malara, F., 2003, in press.

Papers on italian journals

1. De Bartolo, S., Veltri, M., Primavera, L., ``Indagine sulla struttura multifrattale delle reti fluviali mediante approccio a taglia fissa'', accepted by L'acqua, 2003, in press.