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Inverse Statistics of Smooth Signals: The Case of Two Dimensional Turbulence

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Phys. Rev. Lett., 87 (12): 124501 (August 2001)
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.124501

Abstract

The problem of inverse statistics (statistics of distances for which the signal fluctuations are larger than a certain threshold) in differentiable signals with power law spectrum, E(k)∼k-α, 3≤α<5, is discussed. We show that for these signals, with random phases, exit-distance moments follow a bifractal distribution. We also investigate two dimensional turbulent flows in the direct cascade regime, which display a more complex behavior. We give numerical evidences that the inverse statistics of 2D turbulent flows is described by a multifractal probability distribution; i.e., the statistics of laminar events is not simply captured by the exponent α characterizing the spectrum.

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