Superstatistical Brownian Motion

Beck, C.
Bibliographical reference

Progress of Theoretical Physics Supplement, No. 162, pp. 29-36

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2006
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Citations
57
Refereed citations
49
Description
As a main example for the superstatistics approach, we study a Brownian particle moving in a d-dimensional inhomogeneous environment with macroscopic temperature fluctuations. We discuss the average occupation time of the particle in spatial cells with a given temperature. The Fokker-Planck equation for this problem becomes a stochastic partial differential equation. We illustrate our results using experimentally measured time series from hydrodynamic turbulence.