Energy avalanches in a rice-pile model

Luís A. Nunes Amaral and Kent Bækgaard Lauritsen

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1996, vol. 231, issue 4, 608-614

Abstract: We investigate a one-dimensional rice-pile model. We show that the distribution of dissipated potential energy decays as a power law with an exponent α = 1.53. The system thus provides a one-dimensional example of self-organized criticality. Different driving conditions are examined in order to allow for comparisons with experiments.

Keywords: Avalanches; Self-organized criticality; Granular systems (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1996
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DOI: 10.1016/0378-4371(96)00129-X

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