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The annual rate of independent events - A key interpretation for traditional extreme value distributions of wind velocity
The extreme value theory has been object of engineering studies for more than a century. The analysis of extreme winds plays a key role for complex civil structures and a driving role in different stages of wind turbines lifetime. Most of extremes probability models depend on the annual rate of independent events (ARIE) which has been traditionally considered a constant value. The authors have embraced a recent belief considering the ARIE as a function of the wind velocity. Even though a certain agreement has been achieved across the researches, some issues are still pending. In this regard, the paper shows that the annual, seasonal and daily fluctuations embedded in time series of the mean wind speeds, constrain its probability distribution and time correlation to be physically consistent. Besides, a new physical interpretation of the ARIE is presented, expressing how the independence across wind observations increases with the wind speed, up to the point that all yearly observations are independent if larger than a suitable speed value. Such a tendency is not revealed if the annual, seasonal and daily fluctuations are excluded by the analysis, leading to a deceitful shape of the ARIE. Finally, the paper shows how the velocity-dependent ARIE model is consistent with the conventional asymptotic extreme value theory, if a sufficiently large left-censorship applies to the dataset. The study of the ARIE presented in this paper is based on long-term Monte Carlo simulation of the mean wind speed
Modeling Deep Inelastic Cross Sections in the Few GeV Region
We present preliminary results on simple modifications and corrections to
GRV94 leading order parton distribution functions such that they can be used to
model electron,muon and neutrino deep-inelastic scattering cross sections at
low energies.Comment: 6 pages, 6 figures. Presented by Arie Bodek at NuInt01, the First
International Workshop on Neutrino-Nucleus Interactions in the Few GeV
Region, Dec. 2001, KEK, Tsukuba, Japan. To be published in Nucl. Physics B.
Proceedings Supplement, Fall 200
Modeling Neutrino and Electron Scattering Cross Sections in the Few GeV Region with Effective
We use new scaling variables and , and add low
modifications to GRV94 and GRV98 leading order parton distribution functions
such that they can be used to model electron, muon and neutrino inelastic
scattering cross sections (and also photoproduction) at both very low and high
energie.Comment: 8 pages, 3 figures, Invited talk given by Arie Bodek at the X Mexican
School of Particles and Fields, Playa del Carmen, Mexico, 200
Modeling Neutrino Quasielastic Cross Sections on Nucleons and Nuclei
We calculate the total and differential quasielastic cross sections for
neutrino and antineutrino scattering on nucleons using up to date fits to the
nucleon elastic electromagnetic form factors , , ,
, and and pseudoscalar form factors. We compare predictions of the
cross sections for nucelons and nuclei to experimental data.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures, Presented by Arie Bodek at CIPANP2003, New York
City, NY 2003 - to be published in proceeding
Higher Twist, Scaling, and Effective for Lepton Scattering in the Few GeV Region
We use a new scaling variable , and add low modifications to
GRV98 leading order parton distribution functions such that they can be used to
model electron, muon and neutrino inelastic scattering cross sections (and also
photoproduction) at both very low and high energies.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures. To be published in J. Phys. G (Conf. Proceedings)
based on two talks by Arie Bodek at the NuFact conference, Imperial
College, London, England, July 200
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