Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 July 2016
Our starting point is a formal linear stochastic differential equation of first order (higher order equations can be transformed to systems of these) where I, a, W are stochastic functions
with
and analogously for a and W. I, a, and W are allowed to depend on the element ω of a set Ω in which a probability measure is defined in the usual way (see e.g. Doob, 1953; de Witt-Morette, 1981). To get a solution of eq.(1) for the mean intensity
we treat the problem according the Reynolds averaging technique in the usual manner : The stochastic equation is changed into an infinte hierarchical system of equations for the correlations.