{
  "id": "0906.3572",
  "version": "v5",
  "published": "2009-06-19T18:27:35.000Z",
  "updated": "2010-03-10T15:04:39.000Z",
  "title": "Extreme fluctuations and the finite lifetime of the turbulent state",
  "authors": [
    "Nigel Goldenfeld",
    "Nicholas Guttenberg",
    "Gustavo Gioia"
  ],
  "comment": "Change log: Universality of c2/c1 argument has been removed, scaling with size of puff added. To appear in Phys. Rev. E Rapid Communications.",
  "categories": [
    "physics.flu-dyn",
    "nlin.CD"
  ],
  "abstract": "We argue that the transition to turbulence is controlled by large amplitude events that follow extreme distribution theory. The theory suggests an explanation for recent observations of the turbulent state lifetime which exhibit super-exponential scaling behaviour with Reynolds number.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v5",
      "updated": "2010-03-10T15:04:39.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "47.27.Cn",
      "47.20.-k"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "finite lifetime",
      "extreme fluctuations",
      "large amplitude events",
      "extreme distribution theory",
      "turbulent state lifetime"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevE.81.035304",
      "journal": "Physical Review E",
      "year": 2010,
      "month": "Mar",
      "volume": 81,
      "number": 3,
      "pages": "035304"
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 0,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2010PhRvE..81c5304G"
    }
  }
}