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The exact Eulerian velocity probability density function (pdf) of a turbulent field is generally unknown, and one normally has available only partial information in the form of low order moments. We compare two alternative Lagrangian Stochastic (LS) approaches formed from this partial information, (i) the “moments approximation” approach (Kaplan and Dinar, 1993); and (ii) the well-mixed model (Thomson, 1987) that corresponds to the “maximum missing information” pdf formed from the available information. We show that the moments approximation model does not in general satisfy the well-mixed constraint, and can give an inferior prediction of dispersion.
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Du, S., Wilson, J.D. & Yee, E. On the moments approximation method for constructing a Lagrangian Stochastic model. Boundary-Layer Meteorol 70, 273–292 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00709122
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