Functions for Fluctuations

We shall assume that the energy levels of the problem are so closely spaced that they can be treated as a continuous distribution. For each of the energy levels, or states of the system, there will be a certain value of our quantity x. We shall now arrange the energy levels according to the values of x and shall set up a density function, which we shall write 

The function e a x z ), is called a Gauss error curve, having been used by Gauss to describe distribution functions similar to our /( ) in the theory of errors. It equals unity when x = x0, and falls off on both sides of this point symmetrically, being reduced to 1 /e when 

Formula (2.8) is an obviously convenient expression for the distribution function. From it one can find the mean square deviation of xo. Obviously the mean value of x is x0, from the symmetry of Eq. (2.8). Then, using Eq. (2.1), we have 

we have a general expression for mean square fluctuations, if only we can express E — Ts as a function of x. This ordinarily can be done conveniently for the internal energy E. We shall now show that, to a very good approximation, equals the entropy S, so that it also can be expressed in terms of the parameter x, by ordinary thermodynamic means. To do this, we shall compute the partition function Z 

Now if the peak of f(x) is narrow, E(x ,) will be practically equal to 17, the mean value of E, which is used in thermodynamic expressions like Eq. 

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Partial scattering function for fluctuation or blob scattering... 

Therefore Sbb. Sbc, and Sec are the experimentally obtained partial scattering fimctions and Sbb(Q) is the partial scattering function for fluctuation or blob scattering. Equation 36 assmnes an experiment under brush contrast. 

Figure 4 The correlation function for fluctuations in the glycosidic torsion angle of fi-maltose as calculated from MD simulations of the molecule in vacuo. The spectral density of this function is shown in the inset. Reprinted from Ref. 41 by permission from the American Chemical Society...

The second application is to temperature fluctuations in an equilibrium fluid [18]. Using (A3.2.321 and (A3.2.331 the correlation function for temperature deviations is found to be... 

Fig. 8.8 The bond fluctuation model. In this example three bcmds in the polymer arc incorporated into a singk effecti bond between effective moncmers . (Figure adapted from Baschnagel J, K Binder, W Paul, M Laso, U Sutcr, I Batouli [N ]ilge and T Burger 1991. On the Construction of Coarse-Grained Models for Linear Flexible Polymer-Chains -Distribution-Functions for Groups of Consecutive Monomers. Journal of Chemical Physics 93 6014-6025.)...

In close relation to the fluctuations, one may introduce the correlation functions. The pair density distribution function for fluid particles (ri, r2) is defined as the average over all realizations of the matrix structure of the... 

Fig. 2.41 Auto-correlation functions for pressure and temperature fluctuations. Reprinted from Hetsroni et al. (2002b) with permission...

The auto-correlation functions for the pressure and temperature Rjj fluctuations are presented in Fig. 2.41. It is clear that the temporal behavior of the temperature fluctuations corresponds to that of the pressure fluctuations (Hetsroni et al. 2002b). 

Yang ZZ, Wu Y, Zhao DX (2004) Atom-bond electronegativity equalization method fused into molecular mechanics. I. A seven-site fluctuating charge and flexible body water potential function for water clusters. J Chem Phys 120(6) 2541-2557... 

In this case the preparation of the barrier is performed mainly by the quantum fluctuations of the tunneling particle in the transverse direction. Note that the width of the distribution here is l/ /2 of that in the distribution function for the coordinates qp. This is due to the fact that in this case the fluctuations of the particle are of quantum character and a coherent averaging of the resonance... 

Fitzgerald et al. (1984) measured pressure fluctuations in an atmospheric fluidized bed combustor and a quarter-scale cold model. The full set of scaling parameters was matched between the beds. The autocorrelation function of the pressure fluctuations was similar for the two beds but not within the 95% confidence levels they had anticipated. The amplitude of the autocorrelation function for the hot combustor was significantly lower than that for the cold model. Also, the experimentally determined time-scaling factor differed from the theoretical value by 24%. They suggested that the differences could be due to electrostatic effects. Particle sphericity and size distribution were not discussed failure to match these could also have influenced the hydrodynamic similarity of the two beds. Bed pressure fluctuations were measured using a single pressure point which, as discussed previously, may not accurately represent the local hydrodynamics within the bed. Similar results were... 

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In turbulent reactive flows, the chemical species and temperature fluctuate in time and space. As a result, any variable can be decomposed in its mean and fluctuation. In Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) simulations, only the means of the variables are computed. Therefore, a method to obtain a turbulent database (containing the means of species, temperature, etc.) from the laminar data is needed. In this work, the mean variables are calculated by PDF-averaging their laminar values with an assumed shape PDF function. For details the reader is referred to Refs. [16, 17]. In the combustion model, transport equations for the mean and variances of the mixture fraction and the progress variable and the mean mass fraction of NO are solved. More details about this turbulent implementation of the flamelet combustion model can also be found in Ref. [20],... 

Hence, the picoeconomic theory of addiction and the modified version of the rational choice theory of addiction obtained by allowing for fluctuations in discount functions do in fact have a fairly large common core. 

From the above linear theory the time-correlation function for the thermal fluctuation < ,(1) decays exponentially with the decay rate rth(q) given by... 

It has recently been pointed out by Gordon1 that the root-mean-square fluctuations in the sampled values of the autocorrelation function of a dynamical variable do not necessarily relax to their equilibrium values at the same rate as the autocorrelation function itself relaxes. It is the purpose of this paper to investigate the relative rates of relaxation of autocorrelation functions and their fluctuations in certain systems that can be described by Smoluchowski equations,2 i.e., Fokker-Planck equations in coordinate space. We exhibit the fluctuation and autocorrelation functions for several simple systems, and show that they usually relax at different rates. 

We first obtain autocorrelation and fluctuation functions for the function /(r) = r2. For this purpose, we shall need to find (r02r,2y and = . From Eq. (9) we write immediately... 

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