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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 set of parallel…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-06-04 J. Bakosi , P. Franzese , Z. Boybeyi

Statistical analyses of finite sample distributions usually assume that fluctuations are self-averaging, i.e. that they are statistically similar in different regions of the given sample volume. By using the scale-length method, we test…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-02 Francesco Sylos Labini , Nikolay L. Vasilyev , Yurij V. Baryshev

Weak lensing provides a direct way of mapping the density distribution in the universe. To reconstruct the density field from the shear catalog, an important step is to build the shear field from the shear catalog, which can be quite…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-27 Haoran Wang , Jun Zhang , Hekun Li , Cong Liu

The probability density functions (PDFs) for energy dissipation rates, created from time-series data of grid turbulence in a wind tunnel, are analyzed in a high precision by the theoretical formulae for PDFs within multifractal PDF theory…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-03 Toshihico Arimitsu , Naoko Arimitsu , Hideaki Mouri

Here we use data from multi-scale galactic MHD simulations to observe filaments and star forming clumps on 10's of pc scales and investigate flow rate relationships along, and onto filaments as well as flows towards the clumps. Using the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-14 M. R. A. Wells , R. Pillsworth , H. Beuther , R. E. Pudritz , E. W. Koch

A common problem in physics is to fit regression data by a parametric class of functions, and to decide whether a certain functional form allows for a good fit of the data. Common goodness of fit methods are based on the calculation of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 N. Bissantz , A. Munk

Modeling large dependent datasets in modern time series analysis is a crucial research area. One effective approach to handle such datasets is to transform the observations into density functions and apply statistical methods for further…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-07-23 Yinzhi Wang , Yingqiu Zhu , Ben-Chang Shia , Lei Qin

If two probability density functions (PDFs) have values for their first $n$ moments which are quite close to each other (upper bounds of their differences are known), can it be expected that the PDFs themselves are very similar? Shown below…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-08-16 Pranava Chaitanya Jayanti , Konstantina Trivisa

We consider the problem of fitting a probability density function when it is constrained to have a given number of modal intervals. We propose a dynamic programming approach to solving this problem numerically. When this number is not…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-25 Ery Arias-Castro , He Jiang

We analytically calculate the star formation efficiency and dense self-gravitating gas fraction in the presence of magneto-gravo-turbulence using the model of Burkhart (2018), which employs a piecewise lognormal and powerlaw density…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-07-24 Blakesley Burkhart , Philip Mocz

We introduce the position-dependent probability distribution function (PDF) of the smoothed matter field as a cosmological observable. In comparison to the PDF itself, the spatial variation of the position-dependent PDF is simpler to model…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-29 Drew Jamieson , Marilena Loverde

We numerically study the volume density probability distribution function (n-PDF) and the column density probability distribution function (Sigma-PDF) resulting from thermally bistable turbulent flows. We analyze three-dimensional…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-12 Adriana Gazol , Jongsoo Kim

Particle flow (PFL) is an effective method for overcoming particle degeneracy, the main limitation of particle filtering. In PFL, particles are migrated towards regions of high likelihood based on the solution of a partial differential…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-16 Wenyu Zhang , Mohammad J. Khojasteh , Nikolay A. Atanasov , Florian Meyer

We measure the matter probability distribution function (PDF) via counts in cells in a volume limited subsample of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Luminous Red Galaxy Catalog on scales from $30 h^{-1}$Mpc to $150 h^{-1}$Mpc and estimate the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-16 Péter Pápai , István Szapudi

Compressive isothermal turbulence is known to have a near lognormal density probability distribution function (PDF) with a width that scales with the sonic Mach number and nature of the turbulent driving (solenoidal vs compressive).…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-06 Philip Mocz , Blakesley Burkhart

The statistical properties of the $E \times B$ flux in different types of plasma turbulence simulations are investigated using probability density distribution functions (PDF). The physics included in the models ranges from two dimensional…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Volker Naulin , Odd Erik Garcia , Anders Henry Nielsen , Jens Juul Rasmussen

An unresolved problem of present generation coupled climate models is the realistic distribution of rainfall over Indian monsoon region, which is also related to the persistent dry bias over Indian land mass. Therefore, quantitative…

We compare the statistics of driven, supersonic turbulence at high Mach number using FLASH a widely used Eulerian grid-based code and PHANTOM, a Lagrangian SPH code at resolutions of up to 512^3 in both grid cells and SPH particles. We find…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 Daniel J. Price , Christoph Federrath

This paper investigates the effect of initial volume fraction on the runout characteristics of collapse of granular columns on slopes in fluid. Two-dimensional sub-grain scale numerical simulations are performed to understand the flow…

Geophysics · Physics 2017-06-30 Krishna Kumar , Jean-Yves Delenne , Kenichi Soga

We present a new analytic calculation for the redshift-space evolution of the 1-point galaxy Probability Distribution Function (PDF). The nonlinear evolution of the matter density field is treated by second-order Eulerian perturbation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Peter Watts , Andrew Taylor