2003/04/08 by Jacopo Bellazzini, Bellazzini, Jacopo
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech) #cond-mat.stat-mech
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/0304197
6 pages, 1 fugure, submitted for publication in Physical Review Letters
arxiv created 2003/04/08 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30
A model to explain the statistics of the velocity gradients in the dissipation range of a turbulent flow is presented. The experimentally observed non-gaussian statistics is theoretically predicted by means of a thermodynamical analogy using the maximum entropy principle of ordinary statistical mechanics.