Self-Organization in a Granular Medium by Internal Avalanches
Soft Condensed Matter
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
Internal avalanches of grain displacements can be created inside a granular material kept in a bin in two ways: (i) By removing a radomly selected grain at the bottom of the bin (ii) By breaking a stable arch of grains clogging a hole at the bottom of the bin. Repeated generations of such avalanches lead the system to a steady state. The question asked, is this state a critical state as that in Self-Organized Criticality? We review here some of the recent studies on this problem using cellular automata as well as hard disc models.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0009174,
title = {Self-Organization in a Granular Medium by Internal Avalanches},
author = {S. S. Manna},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0009174},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
A short review of 10 pages (Revtex), 14 eps figures (included)