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Uncertainty propagation in nonlinear dynamic systems remains an outstanding problem in scientific computing and control. Numerous approaches have been developed, but are limited in their capability to tackle problems with more than a few…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-11-22 Tenavi Nakamura-Zimmerer , Daniele Venturi , Qi Gong , Wei Kang

The probability density function (PDF) of velocity fluctuations is studied experimentally for grid turbulence in a systematical manner. At small distances from the grid, where the turbulence is still developing, the PDF is sub-Gaussian. At…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 H. Mouri , M. Takaoka , A. Hori , Y. Kawashima

We investigate the form of the one-point probability distribution function (pdf) for the density field of the interstellar medium using numerical simulations that successively reduce the number of physical processes included.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 J. Scalo , E. Vazquez-Semadeni , D. Chappell , T. Passot

In probability density function (PDF) methods of turbulent flows, the joint PDF of several flow variables is computed by numerically integrating a system of stochastic differential equations for Lagrangian particles. A mathematically exact…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-06-17 J. Bakosi

The phenomenology of velocity statistics in turbulent flows, up to now, relates to different models dealing with either signed or unsigned longitudinal velocity increments, with either inertial or dissipative fluctuations. In this paper, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Chevillard , B. Castaing , E. Leveque , A. Arneodo

A theoretical formula for the probability density function (PDF) of velocity derivatives in a fully developed turbulent flow is derived with the multifractal aspect based on the generalized measures of entropy, i.e., the extensive Renyi…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 N. Arimitsu , T. Arimitsu

Mathematical models based on probability density functions (PDF) have been extensively used in hydrology and subsurface flow problems, to describe the uncertainty in porous media properties (e.g., permeability modelled as random field).…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-06-01 Matteo Icardi , Marco Dentz

We study the effect of density fluctuations induced by turbulence on the HI/H$_2$ structure in photodissociation regions (PDRs) both analytically and numerically. We perform magnetohydrodynamic numerical simulations for both subsonic and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-07-26 Shmuel Bialy , Blakesley Burkhart , Amiel Sternberg

In this paper, we propose normalizing flows (NF) as a novel probability density function (PDF) turbulence model (NF-PDF model) for the Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) equations. We propose to use normalizing flows in two different…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-01-12 Deniz A. Bezgin , Nikolaus A. Adams

The column density probability distribution function (N-PDF) of GMCs has been used as a diagnostic of star formation. Simulations and analytic predictions have suggested the N-PDF is composed of a low density lognormal component and a high…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-27 Hope Chen , Blakesley Burkhart , Alyssa A. Goodman , David C. Collins

We perform three-dimensional (3D) compressible MHD simulations over many dynamical times for an extended range of sonic and Alfven Mach numbers and analyze the statistics of 3D density and 2D column density, which include probability…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-19 G. Kowal , A. Lazarian , A. Beresnyak

Simulations generally show that non-self-gravitating clouds have a lognormal column density ($\Sigma$) probability distribution function (PDF), while self-gravitating clouds with active star formation develop a distinct power-law tail at…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-20 Sayantan Auddy , Shantanu Basu , Takahiro Kudoh

Dispersion of a passive scalar from concentrated sources in fully developed turbulent channel flow is studied with the probability density function (PDF) method. The joint PDF of velocity, turbulent frequency and scalar concentration is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-03-24 J. Bakosi , P. Franzese , Z. Boybeyi

The probability distribution functions of the circulation of velocity in three-dimensional decaying isotropic turbulence are examined by the database of the numerical simulation based on the pseudospectral method. It is shown that the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 Makoto Umeki

The joint probability distribution function (PDF) of the density within multiple concentric spherical cells is considered. It is shown how its cumulant generating function can be obtained at tree order in perturbation theory as the Legendre…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-19 Francis Bernardeau , Christophe Pichon , Sandrine Codis

The statistics of power fluctuations are studied in simulations of two-dimensional turbulence in both inverse (energy) and direct (enstrophy) cascade regimes from both Lagrangian and Eulerian perspectives. The probability density function…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-03-01 M. M. Bandi , C. Connaughton

Perturbation Theory (PT) applied to a cosmological density field with Gaussian initial fluctuations suggests a specific hierarchy for the correlation functions when the variance is small. In particular quantitative predictions have been…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 D. Munshi , F. Bernardeau , A. L. Melott , R. Schaeffer

An analytical expression of probability density function (PDF) of accelerations in turbulence is derived 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…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Toshihico Arimitsu , Naoko Arimitsu

We study the effects of radiative transfer on the Probability Distribution Functions (PDFs) of simulations of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence in the widely studied $^{13}$CO 2-1 transition. We find that the integrated intensity maps…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 Blakesley Burkhart , V. Ossenkopf , A. Lazarian , J. Stutzki

The structure of molecular clouds can be characterized with the probability distribution function (PDF) of the mass surface density. In particular, the properties of the distribution can reveal the nature of the turbulence and star…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Rachel L. Ward , James Wadsley , Alison Sills