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Measuring non-extensitivity parameters in a turbulent Couette-Taylor flow

arXiv:cond-mat/0010476 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.63.035303

Abstract

We investigate probability density functions of velocity differences at different distances r measured in a Couette-Taylor flow for a range of Reynolds numbers Re. There is good agreement with the predictions of a theoretical model based on non-extensive statistical mechanics (where the entropies are non-additive for independent subsystems). We extract the scale-dependent non-extensitivity parameter q(r, Re) from the laboratory data.

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