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Title: Inertia and break of self-organized criticality in sandpile cellular-automata models

Abstract

We present a sandpile cellular-automata model that includes the effects of inertia. The model is studied in both one and two dimensions. We find that the model changes the normal self-organized critical behavior, creating a dominance of big events in the system and leading to very large fluctuations in the mass of the system. We show that those changes of behavior can only be noticed in large sandpiles, which is in accord with previous experimental results.

Authors:
 [1];  [2]
  1. Istituto de Fisica, Universidade de Sao Paulo, CP 20516, CEP 014918, Sao Paulo (Brazil)
  2. Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973 (United States)
Publication Date:
OSTI Identifier:
7235516
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
Physical Review A. General Physics; (United States)
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 45:2; Journal ID: ISSN 1050-2947
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; SAND; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; FLUCTUATIONS; FRACTALS; GLOBAL ASPECTS; GRAVITATIONAL FIELDS; SCALING LAWS; FUNCTIONS; VARIATIONS; 661100* - Classical & Quantum Mechanics- (1992-)

Citation Formats

Prado, C P.C., and Olami, Z. Inertia and break of self-organized criticality in sandpile cellular-automata models. United States: N. p., 1992. Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.45.665.
Prado, C P.C., & Olami, Z. Inertia and break of self-organized criticality in sandpile cellular-automata models. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.45.665
Prado, C P.C., and Olami, Z. 1992. "Inertia and break of self-organized criticality in sandpile cellular-automata models". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.45.665.
@article{osti_7235516,
title = {Inertia and break of self-organized criticality in sandpile cellular-automata models},
author = {Prado, C P.C. and Olami, Z},
abstractNote = {We present a sandpile cellular-automata model that includes the effects of inertia. The model is studied in both one and two dimensions. We find that the model changes the normal self-organized critical behavior, creating a dominance of big events in the system and leading to very large fluctuations in the mass of the system. We show that those changes of behavior can only be noticed in large sandpiles, which is in accord with previous experimental results.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevA.45.665},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/7235516}, journal = {Physical Review A. General Physics; (United States)},
issn = {1050-2947},
number = ,
volume = 45:2,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Jan 15 00:00:00 EST 1992},
month = {Wed Jan 15 00:00:00 EST 1992}
}