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On their roller coaster ride through turbulence, tracer particles sample the fluctuations of the underlying fields in space and time. Quantitatively relating particle and field statistics remains a fundamental challenge in a large variety…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-01-10 Cristian C. Lalescu , Michael Wilczek

The forms of Euler and Gibbs-Duhem relations discussed in thermodynamics of extensive systems are shown to hold also for nonextensive systems with long-range interactions with a novel interpretation of entities appearing therein. In this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Sumiyoshi Abe , A. K. Rajagopal

Nonequilibrium complex systems are often effectively described by the mixture of different dynamics on different time scales. Superstatistics, which is "statistics of statistics" with two largely separated time scales, offers a consistent…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-18 Sumiyoshi Abe

In non-equilibrium states, currents are produced by irreversible processes that take a system toward the equilibrium state, where the current vanishes. We demonstrate, in a general setting, that a superstatistics arises when the system…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-28 Mohammad Mehrafarin

The concept of continuous topological evolution, based upon Cartan's methods of exterior differential systems, is used to develop a topological theory of non-equilibrium thermodynamics, within which there exist processes that exhibit…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. M. Kiehn

In this work we present the explicit calculation of Probability Distribution Function for a model system of granular gas within the framework of Tsallis Non-Extensive Statistical Mechanics, using the stochastic approach by Beck [C. Beck,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 F. Sattin

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

We review from the point of view of nonextensive statistics the ubiquitous presence in elementary and heavy-ion collisions of power-law distributions. Special emphasis is placed on the conjecture that this is just a reflection of some…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-13 Grzegorz Wilk , Zbigniew Wlodarczyk

The internal interactions of fluids occur at all scales therefore the resulting force fields have no reason to be smooth and differentiable. The release of the differentiability hypothesis has important mathematical consequences, like scale…

General Physics · Physics 2013-03-15 Louis de Montera

Superstatistics are superpositions of different statistics relevant for driven nonequilibrium systems with spatiotemporal inhomogeneities of an intensive variable (e.g., the inverse temperature). They contain Tsallis statistics as a special…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hugo Touchette , Christian Beck

In this study the q-statistics of Tsallis theory is testified in various complex physical systems. Especially the Tsallis q-triplet is estimated for space plasmas atmospheric dynamics and seismogenesis as well as for the brain and cardiac…

A paradigm based on the absolute equilibrium of Galerkin-truncated inviscid systems to aid in understanding turbulence [T.-D. Lee, "On some statistical properties of hydrodynamical and magnetohydrodynamical fields," Q. Appl. Math. 10, 69…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2010-11-30 Jian-Zhou Zhu , Gregory W. Hammett

The random intensity of noise approach to 1D Laval-Dubrulle-Nazarenko model is used to describe Lagrangian acceleration of a fluid particle in developed turbulence. Intensities of noises entering nonlinear Langevin equation are assumed to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. K. Aringazin , M. I. Mazhitov

We extend the formalism of the statistical theory developed for the 2D Euler equation to the case of shallow water system. Relaxation equations towards the maximum entropy state are proposed, which provide a parametrization of sub-grid…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-06 P. H. Chavanis , J. Sommeria

The dynamical property of the Tsallis distribution is studied from a Fokker-Planck equation. For the Langevin dynamical system with an arbitrary potential function, Markovian friction and Gaussian white noise, we show that no possible…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-08-19 Jiulin Du

We adapt the formalism of the statistical theory of 2D turbulence in the case where the Casimir constraints are replaced by the specification of a prior vorticity distribution. A new relaxation equation is obtained for the evolution of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. H. Chavanis

Long waves in rivers, estuaries and floods are described by the St Venant and Boussinesq equations in classical fluid dynamics. Based on the widely used $k$-$\epsilon$ model for turbulence, we use the techniques of centre manifold theory to…

chao-dyn · Physics 2008-02-03 Z. MEI , A. J. ROBERTS

The non-linear hydrodynamic stability of thin, compressible, Keplerian disks is studied on the large two-dimensional compressible scale, using a high-order accuracy spectral method. We show that purely hydrodynamic perturbations, while…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Patrick Godon , Mario Livio

It is shown that a recent proposal to give physically meaningful definitions of temperature and pressure within Tsallis formalism for non-extensive thermostatistics leads to expressions which coincide with those obtained by using the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Toral

The dynamics of heavy particles suspended in turbulent flows is of fundamental importance for a wide range of questions in astrophysics, atmospheric physics, oceanography, and technology. Laboratory experiments and numerical simulations…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-09-21 K. Gustavsson , B. Mehlig