Brownian excursion the Airy function and formula_22 is the confluent hypergeometric function. Janson and Louchard (2007) show that and They also give higher-order expansions in both cases. Janson (2007) gives moments of formula_19 and many other area functionals. In particular, Brownian excursions also arise in connection with queuing problems, railway traffic, and the heights of random rooted binary trees. Brownian excursion In probability theory a Brownian excursion process is a stochastic process that is closely related to a Wiener process (or Brownian motion). Realisations of Brownian excursion processes are essentially just realizations of a Wiener process selected to satisfy certain conditions. In
Brownian ratchet lower temperature than the resistor. Researchers from the University of Twente, the University of Patras in Greece, and the Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter have constructed a Feynman-Smoluchowski engine which, when not in thermal equilibrium, converts pseudo-Brownian motion into work by means of a granular gas, which is a conglomeration of solid particles vibrated with such vigour that the system assumes a gas-like state. The constructed engine consisted of four vanes which were allowed to rotate freely in a vibrofluidized granular gas. Because the ratchet's gear and pawl mechanism, as described above, permitted the axle to rotate only in