2008/01/06 by Éric Falcon, Eric Falcon, Sébastien Aumaître +7 · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics #Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies #physics.flu-dyn #stochastic dynamics and bifurcation
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.100.064503
submitted to PRL
arxiv created 2008/01/06 · openalex publication_date 2008/02/15 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We report that the power driving gravity and capillary wave turbulence in a statistically stationary regime displays fluctuations much stronger than its mean value. We show that its probability density function (PDF) has a most probable value close to zero and involves two asymmetric roughly exponential tails. We understand the qualitative features of the PDF using a simple Langevin-type model.