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Skewed superstatistical distributions from a Langevin and Fokker-Planck approach

Statistical Mechanics 2010-12-22 v1

Abstract

The superstatistics concept is a useful statistical method to describe inhomogeneous complex systems for which a system parameter β\beta fluctuates on a large spatio-temporal scale. In this paper we analyze a measured time series of wind speed fluctuations and extract the superstatistical distribution function f(β)f(\beta) directly from the data. We construct suitable Langevin and Fokker-Planck models with a position dependent β\beta-field and show that they reduce to standard type of superstatistics in the overdamped limit.

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@article{arxiv.1012.4631,
  title  = {Skewed superstatistical distributions from a Langevin and Fokker-Planck approach},
  author = {Erik Van der Straeten and Christian Beck},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1012.4631},
  year   = {2010}
}

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7 pages, 6 figures