“…The radial distribution function is one of the most widely used approaches for characterizing particle clustering in turbulent flows (Monchaux et al, 2012), and is also currently widely used in a variety of other fields including stochastic geometry (e.g., Stoyan et al, 1995), astrophysics (e.g., Martinez and Saar, 2001), granular media (e.g., Lee and Seong, 2016), crystallography (e.g., Cherkas and Cherkas, 2016), and plasma physics (e.g., Erimbetova et al, 2013). The ideas behind its use go back at least a century (e.g., Ornstein and Zernike, 1914), and its wide use permits a large number of different conceptual and notational conventions.…”