Statistical properties of passive tracers in a positive four-point vortex model

      Abstract
      Stochastic properties of systems formed by many passive particles conducted by 4 point vortices, each one with positive circulation, are investigated. A statistical $\chi^2$ test is developped in order to study the spatial distribution of particles in the chaotic background $\lambda_{L}>0$. The fact that the uniform distribution is an invariant measure of the spatial distribution of particles is used to debug the $\chi^2$ test. This procedure is applied in the same conditions as described in Babiano et al. in order to study the uniformity of passive particles. It is observed that uniformity is not attained up to times of order 105 n.t.u., when either a gaussian or a uniform initial distribution is considered in a small region away from the vortices.

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