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We investigate the time behavior of the fragmentation model with Kolmogorov time scales and space contraction resembling the random $\beta$-model of turbulence. The space averages computed at any instant using the entire spatial realization…

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We apply the finite size scaling technique to quantify the statistical properties of fluctuations in AU, AL and AE indices and in the epsilon parameter that represents energy input from the solar wind into the magnetosphere. We find that…

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The probability density functions (PDFs) for energy dissipation rates, created from time-series data of grid turbulence in a wind tunnel, are analyzed in a high precision by the theoretical formulae for PDFs within multifractal PDF theory…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-03 Toshihico Arimitsu , Naoko Arimitsu , Hideaki Mouri

We study the quasilinear evolution of the one-point probability density functions (PDFs) of the smoothed density and velocity fields in a cosmological gravitating system beginning with Gaussian initial fluctuations. Our analytic results are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Lev Kofman , Edmund Bertschinger , James M. Gelb , Adi Nusser , Avishai Dekel

Solar wind fluctuations, such as magnetic field or velocity, show power law power spectra suggestive both of an inertial range of intermittent turbulence (with $\sim -5/3$ exponent) and at lower frequencies, of fluctuations of coronal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. M. Nicol , S. C. Chapman , R. O. Dendy

We investigate the behavior of energy fluctuations in several models of granular gases maintained in a non-equilibrium steady state. In the case of a gas heated from a boundary, the inhomogeneities of the system play a predominant role.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Visco , A. Puglisi , A. Barrat , F. van Wijland , E. Trizac

In probability density function (PDF) methods a transport equation is solved numerically to compute the time and space dependent probability distribution of several flow variables in a turbulent flow. The joint PDF of the velocity…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-06-04 J. Bakosi , P. Franzese , Z. Boybeyi

We examine the probability distribution function (pdf) of energy injection rate (power) in numerical simulations of stationary two--dimensional (2D) turbulence in the Lagrangian frame. The simulation is designed to mimic an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Bandi , C. Connaughton

Persistence is defined as the probability that the local value of a fluctuating field remains at a particular state for a certain amount of time, before being switched to another state. The concept of persistence has been found to have many…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-07-30 Subharthi Chowdhuri , Tamás Kalmár-Nagy , Tirtha Banerjee

The solar wind is a magnetized and turbulent plasma. Its turbulence is often dominated by Alfv\'enic fluctuations and often deemed as nearly incompressible far away from the Sun, as shown by in-situ measurements near 1AU. However, for solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-14 Xiangrong Fu , Hui Li , Zhaoming Gan , Senbei Du , John Steinberg

In assumed probability density function (pdf) methods of turbulent combustion, the shape of the scalar pdf is assumed a priori and the pdf is parametrized by its moments for which model equations are solved. In non-premixed flows the beta…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-11-05 J. Bakosi , J. R. Ristorcelli

We develop an analytic model of intermittent, three-dimensional, strong, reduced magnetohydrodynamic turbulence with zero cross helicity. We take the fluctuation amplitudes to have a log-Poisson distribution and incorporate into the model a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-26 Benjamin D. G. Chandran , Alexander A. Schekochihin , Alfred Mallet

The interplanetary magnetic field carried out from the Sun by the solar wind displays fluctuations on a wide range of scales. While at large scales, say at frequencies lower than 0.1-1 Hz, fluctuations display clear universal…

The topological and dynamical features of small scales are studied in the context of decaying magnetohydrodynamic turbulent flows using direct numerical simulations. Joint probability density functions (PDFs) of the invariants of gradient…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-15 Vassilios Dallas , Alexandros Alexakis

Incompressible and isotropic magnetohydrodynamic turbulence in plasms can be described by an exact relation for the energy flux through the scales. This Yaglom-like scaling law has been recently observed in the solar wind above the solar…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 V. Carbone , R. Marino , L. Sorriso-Valvo , A. Noullez , R. Bruno

Budgets of turbulent kinetic energy (TKE) and turbulent potential energy (TPE) at different scales $\ell$ in sheared, stably stratified turbulence are analyzed using a filtering approach. Competing effects in the flow are considered, along…

We study the observable signatures of self-gravitating MHD turbulence by applying the probability density functions (PDFs) and the spatial density power spectrum to synthetic column density maps. We find that there exists three…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-06 Blakesley Burkhart , David C. Collins , Alex Lazarian

Kinetic energy stored in ISM bulk/turbulent motions is a crucial ingredient to properly describe most properties of observed galaxies. By using Monte Carlo simulations, we investigate how this energy is injected by supernovae and dissipated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Massimo Ricotti , Andrea Ferrara

An analytical expression of probability density function (PDF) of velocity fluctuation is derived with the help of the statistics based on generalized entropy (the Tsallis entropy or the R\'{e}nyi entropy). It is revealed that the derived…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. Arimitsu , T. Arimitsu

We present three-dimensional magnetic power spectra in wavevector space to investigate anisotropy and scalings of sub-Alfv\'enic solar wind turbulence at magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) scale using the Magnetospheric Multiscale spacecraft. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-29 S. Q. Zhao , Huirong Yan , Terry Z. Liu , Mingzhe Liu , Huizi Wang