Zero-flow steady gyrotactic orientation distribution

ID: zero-flow-steady-gyrotactic-orientation-distribution

For aligning rate , positive rotational diffusivity and , the zero-current steady Fokker-Planck equation gives . Normalization over the unit sphere gives the displayed density per unit solid angle. Its mean direction is , the Langevin function. As , it concentrates weakly into a point mass at the upward pole; the limit is not an ordinary bounded probability density.

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