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We present a numerical study of the order-parameter probability density function (PDF) of the square Ising model for lattices with linear sizes $L=80-140$. A recent efficient entropic sampling scheme, combining the Wang-Landau and broad…

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Intermittency in MHD turbulence has been analyzed using high resolution 2D numerical simulations. We show that the Probability Distribution Functions (PDFs) of the fluctuations of the Elsasser fields, magnetic field and velocity field…

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The consistency relations in large scale structure relate the lower-order correlation functions with their higher-order counterparts. They are direct outcome of the underlying symmetries of a dynamical system and can be tested using data…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-23 Dipak Munshi , Donough Regan

Large eddy simulations (LES) are a powerful tool in understanding processes that are inaccessible by direct simulations due to their complexity, for example, in the highly turbulent regime. However, their accuracy and success depends on a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-03-27 Philipp Grete , Dimitar G Vlaykov , Wolfram Schmidt , Dominik R G Schleicher

The late universe contains a wealth of information about fundamental physics and gravity, wrapped up in non-Gaussian fields. To make use of as much information as possible it is necessary to go beyond two-point statistics. Rather than going…

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Over the past decades, discrete dislocation dynamics simulations have been shown to reliably predict the evolution of dislocation microstructures for micrometer-sized metallic samples. Such simulations provide insight into the governing…

This paper covers the material of our two talks. We describe a series of projects based upon perturbative expansions to follow the gravitational evolution of the one point probability distribution functions (PDFs) for the density contrast…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. R. Bouchet , R. Juszkiewicz

A closure model is presented for large-eddy simulation (LES) based on the three-dimensional variational data assimilation algorithm. The approach aims at reconstructing high-fidelity kinetic energy spectra in coarse numerical simulations by…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-07-02 Sagy Ephrati , Arnout Franken , Erwin Luesink , Paolo Cifani , Bernard Geurts

We study the relaxation of the local ferromagnetic order in the transverse field quantum Ising chain with power-law decaying interactions $1/r^{\alpha}$. We prepare the system in the GHZ state and study the time evolution of the probability…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-04-20 Nishan Ranabhat , Mario Collura

We develop a new computational framework to solve the partial differential equations (PDEs) governing the flow of the joint probability density functions (PDFs) in continuous-time stochastic nonlinear systems. The need for computing the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-08 Kenneth F. Caluya , Abhishek Halder

By means of the multifractal analysis (MFA), the expressions of the probability density functions (PDFs) are unified in a compact analytical formula which is valid for various quantities in turbulence. It is shown that the formula can…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Toshihico Arimitsu , Naoko Arimitsu

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

Perturbation theory makes it possible to calculate the probability distribution function (PDF) of the large scale density field in the small variance limit. For top hat smoothing and scale-free Gaussian initial fluctuations, the result…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 S. Colombi , F. Bernardeau , F. R. Bouchet , L. Hernquist

The probabilistic characterization of non-Markovian responses to nonlinear dynamical systems under colored excitation is an important issue, arising in many applications. Extending the Fokker-Planck-Kolmogorov equation, governing the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-04-14 Gerassimos A. Athanassoulis , Nikolaos P. Nikoletatos-Kekatos , Konstantinos Mamis

Probability density functions (PDFs) of scale-dependent energy fluctuations, $P[\delta E(\ell)]$, are studied in high-resolution direct numerical simulations of Navier-Stokes and incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence. MHD…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-13 Mahdi Momeni , Wolf-Christian Müller

A model is discussed where all operators are constructed from a quantum scalar field whose energy spectrum takes on all real values. The Schr\"odinger picture wave function depends upon space and time coordinates for each particle, as well…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Philip Pearle

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

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 statistical mechanics theory for a fluid stratified in density is presented. The predicted statistical equilibrium state is the most probable outcome of turbulent stirring. The slow temporal evolution of the vertical density profile is…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-09-23 Antoine Venaille , Louis Gostiaux , Joël Sommeria

Generalized statistical models of voids and hierarchical structure in cosmology are developed. The often quoted negative binomial model and frequently used thermodynamic model are shown to be special cases of a more general distribution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Aram Z. Mekjian