Physical Review Letters
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Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics of Waves in Inhomogeneous Moving Media
Author(s): Alexandre Tlili and Basile Gallet
We adapt the microcanonical framework of equilibrium statistical mechanics to predict the statistics of short linear waves in inhomogeneous moving media. For steady inhomogeneities and background flow, we compute the wave spectrum at any location in the domain based on an ergodic prescription for th… [Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 244001] Published Thu Jun 18, 2026