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We consider the tails of probability density functions (PDF) for different characteristics of velocity that satisfies Burgers equation driven by a large-scale force. The saddle-point approximation is employed in the path integral so that…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-28 E. Balkovsky , G. Falkovich , I. Kolokolov , V. Lebedev

The probability density function (PDF) of accelerations in turbulence is derived analytically 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 the derived…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Arimitsu , N. Arimitsu

An analytical formula for the probability density function (PDF) of the velocity fluctuation in fully-developed turbulence is derived, non-perturbatively, by assuming that its underlying statistics is the one based on the generalized…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 Toshihico Arimitsu , Naoko Arimitsu

Small-scale turbulence can be comprehensively described in terms of velocity gradients, which makes them an appealing starting point for low-dimensional modeling. Typical models consist of stochastic equations based on closures for…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-03-01 Maurizio Carbone , Vincent J. Peterhans , Alexander S. Ecker , Michael Wilczek

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

Random processes play a crucial role in scientific research, often characterized by distribution functions or probability density functions (PDFs). These PDFs serve as essential approximations of the actual and frequently undisclosed…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-06-06 Nico Schick

We investigate velocity probability distribution functions (PDF) of sheared hard-sphere suspensions. As observed in our Stokes flow simulations and explained by our single-particle theory, these PDFs can show pronounced deviations from a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-07-24 Jens Harting , Hans J. Herrmann , Eli Ben-Naim

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

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…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-26 L. Sorriso-Valvo , V. Carbone , P. Veltri , H. Politano , A. Pouquet

We study density fluctuations in supersonic turbulence using both theoretical methods and numerical simulations. A theoretical formulation is developed for the probability distribution function (PDF) of the density at steady state,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-09-04 Liubin Pan , Paolo Padoan , Åke Nordlund

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

We propose a new, physically motivated fitting function for density PDFs in turbulent gas. Although it is known that when gas is isothermal, the PDF is approximately lognormal in the core, high-resolution simulations show large deviations…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-07-02 Philip F. Hopkins

We introduce a method for calculating the probability density function (PDF) of a turbulent density field in three dimensions using only information contained in the projected two-dimensional column density field. We test the method by…

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

The numerical experiments of turbulence conducted by Gotoh et al. are analyzed precisely with the help of the formulae for the scaling exponents of velocity structure function and for the probability density function (PDF) of velocity…

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

Motivated by its important role in the collisional growth of dust particles in protoplanetary disks, we investigate the probability distribution function (PDF) of the relative velocity of inertial particles suspended in turbulent flows.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Liubin Pan , Paolo Padoan , John Scalo

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

A theory of the probability distribution function (PDF) tails of the blob density in plasma edge turbulence is provided. A simplified model of the fast convective radial transport is used. The theoretically predicted PDF tails corroborate…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Johan Anderson , Eun-jin Kim

The evolution of probability distribution functions (PDFs) of continuous density, velocity and velocity derivatives ( deformation tensor) fields in the theory of cosmological gravitational instability are considered. We show that in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Lev Kofman

We investigate the velocity statistics by calculating the Biot--Savart velocity induced by vortex filaments in steady counterflow turbulence investigated in a previous study [Phys. Rev. B {\bf 81}, 104511 (2010)]. The probability density…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-20 Hiroyuki Adachi , Makoto Tsubota

The one-point probability distribution function (pdf) of the large-scale density field is an important tool to follow the evolution of cosmological structures. In this paper we present a new model for this pdf for all regimes and all…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Patrick Valageas , Dipak Munshi