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The speed/velocity distribution functions have been measured for three crowd fluids in the gaseous phase. Good agreement is obtained with Maxwell-Boltzmann theory except for a significant deviation near the frequency mode of each distribution. This is attributed to sexual inhomogeneity.
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Abramowitz, M., and Stegun, I. A., Handbook of Mathematical Functions (Dover, 1965).
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HENDERSON, L. The Statistics of Crowd Fluids. Nature 229, 381–383 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/229381a0
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