Energy avalanches in a rice-pile model.

Amaral, LAN, Lauritsen, KB.
Physica A 231, 608-614 (1996)

Times cited: 16

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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 alpha = 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.