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Comment on ``Dynamical Foundations of Nonextensive Statistical Mechanics"

Fluid Dynamics 2009-09-29 v3 Condensed Matter

Abstract

In a recent letter, Christian Beck described a theoretical link between a family of stochastic differential equations and the probability density functions (PDF) derived from the formalism of nonextensive statistical mechanics. He applied the theory to explain experimentally measured PDFs from fully developed fluid turbulence. Here we present new experimental results with better statistics which show that the linear model propose by C. Beck does not capture the experimental observations.

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@article{arxiv.physics/0212080,
  title  = {Comment on ``Dynamical Foundations of Nonextensive Statistical Mechanics"},
  author = {Alice M. Crawford and Nicolas Mordant and Andy M. Reynolds and Eberhard Bodenschatz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0212080},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

Comment submitted to PRL about the letter C. Beck, Phys. Rev. Lett 87, 180601 (2001). Text and figures have been modified. Added an author