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Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-16 Sayantan Mondal , Prasenjit Das

The silo discharge process is studied by molecular dynamics simulations. The development of the velocity profile and the probability density function for the displacements in the horizontal and vertical axis are obtained. The PDFs obtained…

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We characterize the column density probability distributions functions (PDFs) of the atomic hydrogen gas, HI, associated with seven Galactic molecular clouds (MCs). We use 21 cm observations from the Leiden/Argentine/Bonn Galactic HI Survey…

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We performed high resolution numerical simulations of homogenous and isotropic compressible turbulence, with an average 3D Mach number close to 0.3. We study the statistical properties of intermittency for velocity, density and entropy. For…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 Roberto Benzi , Luca Biferale , Robert Fisher , Leo Kadanoff , Donald Lamb , Federico Toschi

The PDFs for energy dissipation rates created in a high resolution from $4096^3$ DNS for fully developed turbulence are analyzed in a high precision with the PDF derived within the formula of multifractal probability density function theory…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-19 Toshihico Arimitsu , Naoko Arimitsu , Kohei Takechi , Yukio Kaneda , Takashi Ishihara

We study turbulent channel flow of a binary mixture of finite-size neutrally-buoyant rigid particles by means of interface-resolved direct numerical simulations. We fix the bulk Reynolds number and total solid volume fraction, $Re_b = 5600$…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-02-23 Iman Lashgari , Francesco Picano , Pedro Costa , Wim-Paul Breugem , Luca Brandt

This study experimentally investigates bubble size evolution and void fraction redistribution in an unexplored, coalescence-dominated regime of decaying turbulent bubbly flow. The flow is generated downstream of a regenerative pump in a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-09 Vivek Kumar , Prasoon Suchandra , Ardalan Javadi , Suhas S. Jain , Cyrus Aidun

Subcritical transition of an inhomogeneous plasma where turbulences with different characteristic space-time scales coexist is analyzed with methods of statistical physics of turbulences. We derived the development equations of the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mitsuhiro Kawasaki , Sanae-I. Itoh , Kimitaka Itoh

Experimental results for the evolution of the probability distribution function (PDF) of a scalar mixed by a turbulence flow in a channel are presented. The sequence of PDF from an initial skewed distribution to a sharp Gaussian is found to…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Antoine Venaille , Joel Sommeria

The aggregation properties of heavy inertial particles in the elastic turbulence regime of an Oldroyd-B fluid with periodic Kolmogorov mean flow are investigated by means of extensive numerical simulations in two dimensions. Both the small…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-10-03 Himani Garg , Enrico Calzavarini , Gilmar Mompean , Stefano Berti

The Boeder differential equation is solved in this work over a wide range of $\alpha$, yielding the probability density functions (PDF), that describe the average orientations of rod-like macromolecules in a flowing liquid. The quantity…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2013-06-12 A. Khater , C. Tannous , A. Hijazi

We present three numerical simulations of randomly driven, isothermal, non-magnetic, self-gravitating turbulence with different rms Mach numbers Ms and physical sizes L, but approximately the same value of the virial parameter, alpha approx…

We have obtained column density maps for an unbiased sample of 120 molecular clouds in the third quadrant of the Milky Way mid-plane (b$\le |5|^{\circ}$) within the galactic longitude range from 195$^{\circ}$ to 225$^{\circ}$, using the…

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For the steady-state direct cascade of two-dimensional Navier-Stokes turbulence, we derive analytically the probability of strong vorticity fluctuations. The probability density function (pdf) of the vorticity coarse-grained over a scale in…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-20 Gregory Falkovich , Vladimir Lebedev , Mikhail Stepanov

One key issue in the probability density function (PDF) approach for disperse two-phase turbulent flows is to close the diffusion term in the phase space. This study aimed to derive a kinetic equation for particle dispersion in turbulent…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-07-15 De-yu Zhong , Guang-qian Wang , Tie-jian Li , Ming-xi Zhang , You Xia

We study the statistics of density for supersonic turbulence in a medium with magnetic pressure larger than the gaseous pressure. This study is motivated by molecular cloud research. Our simulations exhibit clumpy density structures, which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Beresnyak , A. Lazarian , J. Cho

We further characterize the structures tentatively identified on thermal and chemical grounds as the sites of dissipation of turbulence in molecular clouds (Papers I and II). Our study is based on two-point statistics of line centroid…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Pierre Hily-Blant , Edith Falgarone , Jerome Pety

The normal distribution is used as a unified probability distribution, however, our researcher found that it is not good agreed with the real-life dynamical system's data. We collected and analyzed representative naturally occurring data…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-11-06 Wei Ping Cheng , Zhi Hong Zhang , Pu Wang

Suspensions of finite-size solid particles in a turbulent pipe flow are found in many industrial and technical flows. Due to the ample parameter space consisting of particle size, concentration, density and Reynolds number, a complete…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-11-18 Martin Leskovec , Sagar Zade , Mehdi Niazi , Pedro Costa , Fredrik Lundell , Luca Brandt

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…

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