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The most effective model for describing the universal behavior of unstable surface growth

Statistical Mechanics 2017-09-13 v2

Abstract

We study a noisy Kuramoto-Sivashinsky (KS) equation which describes unstable surface growth and chemical turbulence. It has been conjectured that the universal long-wavelength behavior of the equation, which is characterized by scale-dependent parameters, is described by a Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) equation. We consider this conjecture by analyzing a renormalization-group equation for a class of generalized KPZ equations. We then uniquely determine the parameter values of the KPZ equation that most effectively describes the universal long-wavelength behavior of the noisy KS equation.

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@article{arxiv.1703.08946,
  title  = {The most effective model for describing the universal behavior of unstable surface growth},
  author = {Yuki Minami and Shin-ichi Sasa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.08946},
  year   = {2017}
}

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16pages, 8figures, Revised version as a full paper