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This study investigates the impact of molecular thermal fluctuations on compressible decaying isotropic turbulence using the unified stochastic particle (USP) method, encompassing both two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D)…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-07-03 Qihan Ma , Chunxin Yang , Song Chen , Kaikai Feng , Ziqi Cui , Jun Zhang

We study jammed near-crystalline materials composed of frictionless spheres in three dimensions. We analyze the fluctuations in positions and forces produced by small polydispersity in particle sizes. We generalize a recently developed…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-10-19 Roshan Maharana

Capillary energy barriers have important consequences for immiscible fluid flow in porous media. We derive time-and-space averaging theory to account for non-equilibrium behavior and understand the role of athermal capillary fluctuations in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-09-01 James E. McClure , Steffen Berg , Ryan T. Armstrong

We revisit the issue of whether thermal fluctuations are relevant for incompressible fluid turbulence, and estimate the scale at which they become important. As anticipated by Betchov in a prescient series of works more than six decades…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-11-18 Gregory Eyink , Dmytro Bandak , Nigel Goldenfeld , Alexei A. Mailybaev

Based on the recently proposed framework of general relativistic stochastic mechanics [{\em J. Stat. Phys.}, 190:193, 2023; {\em J. Stat. Phys.}, 190:181, 2023] and stochastic thermodynamics [{\em SciPost Physics Core} 7, 082, 2024] at the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-05 Yifan Cai , Tao Wang , Liu Zhao

Recently, a theoretical framework known as {\it ballistic macroscopic fluctuation theory} has been developed to study large-scale fluctuations and correlations in many-body systems exhibiting ballistic transport. In this paper, we review…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-01 Anupam Kundu

The isothermal compressibility of an interacting or non interacting system may be extracted from the fluctuations of the number of particles in a well chosen control volume. Finite size effects are prevalent and should then be accounted for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-18 Dario Villamaina , Emmanuel Trizac

In the paper by Franosch et al., Nature 478, 85 (2011), the positional fluctuations of Brownian microspheres in fluids were studied by confining the particles in an optical trap. Experimental access to short timescales has revealed a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-04-16 Jana Tothova , Lukas Glod , Vladimir Lisy

We use confocal microscopy to directly visualize the spatial fluctuations in fluid flow through a three-dimensional porous medium. We find that the velocity magnitudes and the velocity components both along and transverse to the imposed…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-08-07 Sujit S. Datta , Harry Chiang , T. S. Ramakrishnan , David A. Weitz

It is shown that thermal fluctuations present in a simple non-degenerate relativistic fluid satisfy a wave equation in the Euler regime. The characteristic propagation speeds are calculated and the classical expression for the speed of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-05-19 A. Sandoval-Villalbazo , D. Brun

Thermodynamic fluctuation metrics in Ruppeiner's formalism are worked out for Kerr-AdS black holes in the extended state space. The implications of constraints upon the state space geometry and their correspondence with thermodynamical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-06-07 Anurag Sahay

Motivated by stochastic models of climate phenomena, the steady-state of a linear stochastic model with additive Gaussian white noise is studied. Fluctuation theorems for nonequilibrium steady-states provide a constraint on the character of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-01-04 Jeffrey B. Weiss

Microscopic thermal fluctuations are known to affect the macroscopic and spatio-temporal evolution of a host of physical phenomena central to the study of biological systems, turbulence, and reactive mixtures, among others. In…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-09-17 K. J. Petersen , J. R. Brinkerhoff

Standard results for the fluctuations of thermodynamic quantities are derived under the assumption of sampling identical systems that are in different, not fully equilibrated states. These results apply to fluctuations with time in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 R. A. Serota

The fluctuations are termed mesoscopic, when their typical size is essentially larger then the average distance between the nearest neighbors, while being much smaller than the overall system size. Since the features of mesoscopic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-23 V. I. Yukalov , E. P. Yukalova

In this paper, we consider the effect of thermal fluctuations on the entropy of both neutral and charged black holes. We emphasize the distinction between fixed and fluctuating charge systems; using a canonical ensemble to describe the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Gilad Gour , A. J. M. Medved

The unification of relativity and thermodynamics has been a subject of considerable debate over the last 100 years. The reasons for this are twofold: (i) Thermodynamic variables are nonlocal quantities and, thus, single out a preferred…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-12-18 Jörn Dunkel , Peter Hänggi , Stefan Hilbert

We consider the thermodynamic potential describing the macroscopic fluctuation of the current and local energy of a general class of Hamiltonian models including aerogels. We argue that this potential is neither analytic nor strictly…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Raphael Lefevere , Mauro Mariani , Lorenzo Zambotti

The general fluctuation theory is reviewed with special attention to the role played by different ensembles, and is extended to incorporate stationary metastable states obtained in the long time limit. The fluctuation in a quantity depends…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. D. Gujrati

We introduce thermal fluctuations in the lattice Boltzmann method for non-ideal fluids. A fluctuation-dissipation theorem is derived within the Langevin framework and applied to a specific lattice Boltzmann model that approximates the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-12-01 M. Gross , R. Adhikari , M. E. Cates , F. Varnik