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An alternative method was devised and was shown to maintain the consistency of the stochastic model with the thermodynamic constraint at all times.","In the second phase, the mathematical foundation of random-flight models of turbulent diffusion was revisited and the origins of their limitations were investigated. It was shown that linearized-motion approximations of fluid kinematics in general can not meet the requirements of the thermodynamic constraint even in the absence of a random-displacement component. Then, it was shown that random-displacement models which are based on a single-point velocity pdf in general can not have the same divergence properties as the mean-velocity field. Mathematically, the problem was connected to the classical Ito-Stratonovich dilemma. From the physical point of view, it has been argued, in contrast to the solutions which are typically suggested in the literature, that restrictions such as the thermodynamic constraint are related to the two-point correlation and their enforcement to a single-point-pdf model is an ill-posed problem.","Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T12:18:37Z (GMT). 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