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Multiplicity fluctuations of positively, negatively and all charged hadrons in the forward hemisphere were studied in central Pb+Pb collisions at 20A, 30A, 40A, 80A and 158A GeV. The multiplicity distributions and their scaled variances are…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2013-05-29 The NA49 Collaboration , B. Lungwitz

The probability density function (PDF) of accelerations in turbulence is derived analytically with the help of the multifractal analysis based on generalized entropy, i.e., the Tsallis or the R\'{e}nyi entropy. It is shown that the derived…

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

Low-frequency molecular fluctuations in the translational nonequilibrium zone of one-dimensional strong shock waves are characterised for the first time in a kinetic collisional framework in the Mach number range $2\le M\le 10$. Our…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-10-27 Saurabh S. Sawant , Deborah A. Levin , Vassilios Theofilis

We investigate the intermittency of energy dissipation in magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence by identifying dissipative structures and measuring their characteristic scales. We find that the probability distribution of energy dissipation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-28 Vladimir Zhdankin , Stanislav Boldyrev , Jean Carlos Perez , Steven M. Tobias

Dynamical systems in nature exhibit selfsimilar fractal fluctuations and the corresponding power spectra follow inverse power law form signifying long-range space-time correlations identified as self-organized criticality. The physics of…

General Physics · Physics 2008-05-23 A. M. Selvam

Conditional statistics of homogeneous isotropic turbulent flow is investigated by means of high-Reynolds number direct numerical simulations performed with $2048^3$ collocation points. Eulerian as well as Lagrangian velocity increment…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-20 Holger Homann , Daniel Schulz , Rainer Grauer

The shape and tails of partial distribution functions (PDF) for a financial signal, i.e. the S&P500 and the turbulent nature of the markets are linked through a model encompassing Tsallis nonextensive statistics and leading to evolution…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Marcel Ausloos , Kristinka Ivanova

A mass ejection model in a time-dependent random environment with both temporal and spatial correlations is introduced. When the environment has a finite correlation length, individual particle trajectories are found to diffuse at large…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2012-03-28 Giorgio Krstulovic , Rehab Bitane , Jeremie Bec

We study the spatio-temporal behavior of the Els\"asser variables describing magnetic and velocity field fluctuations, using direct numerical simulations of three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic turbulence. We consider cases with relatively…

To understand turbulent convection at very high Rayleigh numbers typical of natural phenomena, computational studies in slender cells are an option if the needed resources have to be optimized within available limits. However, the…

The amplification of magnetic fields in a highly conducting fluid is studied numerically. During growth, the magnetic field is spatially intermittent: it does not uniformly fill the volume, but is concentrated in long thin folded…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. A. Schekochihin , S. C. Cowley , J. L. Maron , J. C. McWilliams

We discuss the non-self-averaging phenomena in the critical point of weakly disordered Ising ferromagnet. In terms of the renormalized replica Ginzburg-Landau Hamiltonian in dimensions D <4, we derive an explicit expression for the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-01-26 Victor Dotsenko , Yu. Holovatch

We present a systematic numerical study of the effect of turbulent velocity fluctuations on the thermal pressure distribution in thermally bistable flows. The simulations employ a random turbulent driving generated in Fourier space rather…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Adriana Gazol , Enrique Vazquez-Semadeni , Jongsoo Kim

In this Letter we investigate the shape of the probability distribution of column densities (PDF) in molecular clouds. Through the use of low-noise, extinction-calibrated \textit{Herschel}/\textit{Planck} emission data for eight molecular…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Marco Lombardi , João Alves , Charles J. Lada

Eulerian-Lagrangian models of particle-laden (multiphase) flows describe fluid flow and particle dynamics in the Eulerian and Lagrangian frameworks respectively. Regardless of whether the flow is turbulent or laminar, the particle dynamics…

The theory of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence predicts that Alfv\'enic and slow-mode-like compressive fluctuations are energetically decoupled at small scales in the inertial range. The partition of energy between these fluctuations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-10 Y. Kawazura , A. A. Schekochihin , M. Barnes , W. Dorland , S. A. Balbus

We show that the classical Kolmogorov and Richardson scaling laws in fully developed turbulence are consistent with a random Gaussian force field. Numerical simulations of a shell model approximation to the Navier-Stokes equations suggest…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 Mogens H. Jensen , Kim Sneppen , Luiza Angheluta

We investigate the diffusive properties of energy fluctuations in a one-dimensional diatomic chain of hard-point particles interacting through a square--well potential. The evolution of initially localized infinitesimal and finite…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. Delfini , S. Denisov , S. Lepri , R. Livi , P. K. Mohanty , A. Politi

When a particle diffuses in a medium with spatially dependent friction coefficient $\alpha(r)$ at constant temperature $T$, it drifts toward the low friction end of the system even in the absence of any real physical force $f$. This…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-18 Oded Farago , Niels Grønbech-Jensen

In weakly collisional space plasmas, the turbulent cascade provides most of the energy that is dissipated at small scales by various kinetic processes. Understanding the characteristics of such dissipative mechanisms requires the accurate…