Vortices appear in a variety of events. From the water flowing into the sink in a kitchen to huge black holes. Vortices are incredible structures that appear in natural flows as for example tornadoes and oceanic eddies. Another example come from the airplanes crossing the sky and creating invisible vortex flows that requires tricks, like tracers, to visualise them. Due to their role in mixing, and energy dissipation, they are deeply study in engineering and astrophysical science. In some engineering applications, the presence of vortices is usually connected to less efficiency in engineering devices (ex. cars, wind turbines, airplanes, rockets), so there are also the studies concerning how to suppress vortex generation in flows.

Our international team reunites researches with different expertises: modelling, simulation, vortex detection and solar observations. Together, we aim to tackle the main open problems concerning the nature of solar vortices and their role in the solar dynamics.