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The probabilistic approach to turbulence is applied to investigate density fluctuations in supersonic turbulence. We derive kinetic equations for the probability distribution function (PDF) of the logarithm of the density field, $s$, in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-24 Liubin Pan , Paolo Padoan , Åke Nordlund

We investigate the statistics of turbulence in emulsions of two-immiscible fluids of same density. We compute for the first time velocity increments between points conditioned to be located in the same phase or in different phases and…

We use the multifractal formalism to describe the effects of dissipation on Lagrangian velocity statistics in turbulent flows. We analyze high Reynolds number experiments and direct numerical simulation (DNS) data. We show that this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Chevillard , S. G. Roux , E. Leveque , N. Mordant , J. -F. Pinton , A. Arneodo

Turbulence is a complex phenomenon that plays a critical role in the interstellar medium (ISM). Previous simulations and observations show that the probability density function (PDF) of gas density in isothermal and compressible systems…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-26 Xunchuan Liu

Subcritical transition of an inhomogeneous plasma where turbulences with different characteristic space-time scales coexist is analyzed with methods of statistical physics of turbulences. We derived the development equations of the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mitsuhiro Kawasaki , Sanae-I. Itoh , Kimitaka Itoh

In this paper, we introduce a new way to estimate the scaling parameter of a self-similar process by considering the maximum probability density function (pdf) of tis increments. We prove this for $H$-self-similar processes in general and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-02-05 Y. X. Huang , Francois G. Schmitt , Q. Zhou , X. Qiu , X. D. Shang , Z. M. Lu , and Y. L. Liu

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 way the increment statistics of turbulent velocity fluctuations scale with the increment size is a centerpiece of turbulence theories. We report data on decaying turbulence in the Max Planck Variable Density Turbulence Tunnel (VDTT),…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-03-07 Christian Küchler , Eberhard Bodenschatz , Gregory P. Bewley

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

We study the probability distribution function (PDF) of the mass density in simulations of supersonic turbulence with properties appropriate for molecular clouds. For this study we use Athena, a new higher-order Godunov code. We find there…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-09-23 M. Nicole Lemaster , James M. Stone

Mathematical models based on probability density functions (PDF) have been extensively used in hydrology and subsurface flow problems, to describe the uncertainty in porous media properties (e.g., permeability modelled as random field).…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-06-01 Matteo Icardi , Marco Dentz

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

Turbulence problem is often considered as "the last unsolved problem of classical physics". It is due to strong interaction between velocity and/or velocity gradient fluctuations, a high Reynolds number flow is a fascinating mixture of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-08-25 Victor Yakhot , Diego A. Donzis

We elaborate the statistical field theory of Turbulence suggested in the previous paper \cite{M20a}. We clarify and simplify the basic Energy pumping equation of that theory and study mathematical properties of singular field configuration…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-13 Alexander Migdal

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 functions measured by Lewis and Swinney for turbulent Couette-Taylor flow, observed by Bodenschatz and co-workers in the Lagrangian measurement of particle accelerations and those obtained in the DNS by Gotoh et al.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Toshihico Arimitsu , Naoko Arimitsu

We show that some statistical properties of forced two-dimensional turbulence have an important sensitivity to the form of large-scale dissipation which is required to damp the inverse cascade. We consider three models of large-scale…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-03-23 Yue-Kin Tsang

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

In this paper we review recent developments in the statistical theory of weakly nonlinear dispersive waves, the subject known as Wave Turbulence (WT). We revise WT theory using a generalisation of the random phase approximation (RPA). This…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yeontaek Choi , Yuri V. Lvov , Sergey Nazarenko

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