“…The augmented prediction obtained via manipulation of the sources of information can also be actively used to infer an optimized parametric description of the model, with the aim to obtain a predictive tool that can provide accurate predictions without having to rely on observation. DA has been traditionally used in environmental and weather sciences, but applications in fluid mechanics have seen a rapid rise in recent times [22,23,7,24,25,26,27,8,28,29]. A great variety of methods exists, but two groups can be identified [6,30]:…”