Defect turbulence and generalized statistical mechanics
Statistical Mechanics
2007-05-23 v1 Pattern Formation and Solitons
Abstract
We present experimental evidence that the motion of point defects in thermal convection patterns in an inclined fluid layer is well-described by Tsallis statistics with an entropic index . The dynamical properties of the defects (anomalous diffusion, shape of velocity distributions, power law decay of correlations) are in good agreement with typical predictions of nonextensive models, over a range of driving parameters.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0302623,
title = {Defect turbulence and generalized statistical mechanics},
author = {Karen E. Daniels and Christian Beck and Eberhard Bodenschatz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0302623},
year = {2007}
}